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San Francisco, California, US

San Francisco, California, US

San Francisco, CA, US

Lead for internal machine learning products, strategic analyses, and product launch analytics support for the premium subscriptions team. ML models have been leveraged for in-product targeting, adoption of new company-wide metric definitions, strategic audience insights, and A/B experimentation acceleration.Projects:Nitro Audience Segmentation.

Redwood City, CA, US

Project lead for cross-functional, end-to-end machine learning projects, engaging with game developer stakeholders for ideation and scoping, and collaborating with analytics and engineering teams to deploy and monitor modeling services. Mentor multiple interns and scientists on project planning, experimentation, and model deployment.Projects:Playstyle Type.

Houston, Texas, US

Developed predictive maintenance and anomaly detection algorithms for international energy companies. Innovations recognized with the BHGE Best Digital Technology Award and integrated into C3.ai commercial products.Projects:Industrial IoT Predictive Maintenance (Keras, Scikit-learn, UMAP, Flask, Docker, InfluxDB, Grafana, GCP)Led team of 10 in the.

New York, NY, US

• Built and validated hybrid neural network models for emotion detection on image and text data
• Explored and analyzed audience data from television, digital, and social platforms using topic modeling and clustering techniques

Hampton, Virginia, US

Neural Network Explainability (Tensorflow, Scikit-image, Kivy)Conducted AI explainability research using modified variational autoencoders to generate human-interpretable latent encodings of face images. Built a live webcam application for manually experimenting with models and exploring encoding interpretability. Adapted models to perform image-based.

Houston, TX, US

• Open iT is a software license metering company that develops software to help businesses manage and optimize their IT assets.
• Designed time series anomaly detection system using ARIMA models to alert customers of licensing server outages, server configuration changes, and other irregular software usage behavior
• Analyzed customers' software usage data, performing K-means and DBSCAN clustering to propose new methods of optimizing software license sharing
• Trained technical pre-sales and analysis teams to use Python and its libraries for data visualization and predictive analytics
• Researched options for transferring Open iT's data pipeline to HDFS for improved storage and processing speed and presented findings at annual Design Automation Conference

Houston, TX, US

• UH's Educational Data Mining Group is a collection of undergraduate students interested in analyzing data related to academic achievement in order to gain insights into how instructors can better serve their students.
• Prototyped and deployed surveys to collect data on student lifestyles, study habits, and employment stress
• Performed data cleaning, exploratory data analysis, and interactive data visualization on student grades using Pandas, Seaborn, and Bokeh
• Clustered student grade data using K-means to determine which students should receive greater instructor attention
• Tutored peers in using Python for data analysis and machine learning

• Composed and produced music scores of a wide variety of genres for film, television, and other media
• Collaborated with various clients including directors, producers, and advertising agencies to assess musical needs and determine stylistic direction
• Contracted and negotiated with recording studios, equipment rental services, and session musicians to reduce recording fees for clients
• Supervised orchestrators, recording engineers, and musicians to quickly and cost-effectively conduct recording sessionsClients:
• China Film Group
• Konami Gaming

• China Central Television is the main state television broadcaster in China, accounting for over 50 different channels in six languages. CCTV News is the broadcaster's 24-hour English-language news channel.
• Collaborated with directors and producers in determining tone and style of compositions
• Composed and edited original music for various documentary series

• Composed original instrumental music for stage productions including operas, concerts, and ballets
• Scheduled, supervised, and conducted recording sessions with full orchestra as well as soloists
• Collaborated with creative directors and choreographers to determine tone and style of musical approach

Master Of Science, Data Science

Postbaccalaureate Studies, Mathematics And Computer Science

Bachelor Of Arts, Music