We are an MIT and Google-backed startup that is building technology to improve criminal justice outcomes for low-income Americans.

Advise the Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education in developing an ICT in education national strategyConduct field work in six senior secondary schools across Sierra Leone, interviewing school administrators, teachers, and students on their experiences with digital educationDesign and implement a revised high school application system using the Gale-Shapely deferred acceptance algorithm to improve the efficiency and fairness of the selection process

NLP for building a more accessible justice system

Health:Implement a Google Fit integration with the Streams mobile application that enables users to share such information as heart rate and blood oxygen data with their primary care physician through the Streams interface; full stack development in accordance with FHIR standards for the exchange of electronic health recordsRobotics:Design control tasks for the Shadow Dexterous Hand robot in the MuJoCo simulator and train the agent using the Maximum a Posteriori Policy Optimization (MPO) reinforcement learning algorithm

PROJECT: Performing Named-Entity Recognition on Unstructured Documents using Recurrent Neural NetworksDeployed a bidirectional LSTM-CRF model to perform sequence tagging on the raw text and bounding box data generated by Microsoft's optical character recognition engineExperimented with multimodal fusion techniques to generate word embeddings which captured both the semantic and spatial information encoded in a given document

Developed a curriculum to introduce 40 students to core digital skill competencies in partnership with One Summer Chicago, a mayoral initiative to connect opportunity youth across Chicago with paid summer enrichment opportunitiesCollaborated with the Cook County Sheriff's Office to create digital skills programming intended to equip a cohort of 18-24 year old detainees with the necessary resources to find meaningful employment opportunities post-release

Serve in an advisory capacity to support the programmatic efforts of the IOP staff and Board of Advisors as they seek to engage over 2,000 students annually through civic engagement organizations, career development support, and a speaker series program

PROJECT: Predictive Modeling of the Progression of Age-Related Macular Degeneration with Convolutional Neural NetworksMedical Imaging:Trained convolutional neural networks with fundus image inputs to predict the progression of Age-Related Macular Degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss in Americans aged 50 and older Engineered a data-processing pipeline that aggregates per-patient fundus images and calculates feature values for machine learning model using MapReduceRobotics:Created an image classification tool to be used in the arm farm research project, an extensive effort to train robots to reliably perform a suite of grasping tasks

Responsible for allocating $237,000 to support the activities of six competitive academic teams, with membership totaling 220 studentsOversee and take part in budget negotiations with Student Government executive leadership surrounding the successful addition of a new team to the coalition Facilitate discussions among member teams with regards to recruitment strategies, financial aid policies, and initiatives to increase campus visibility

Selected by the Dean of Campus and Student Life to represent the undergraduate population's views on topics such as free speech, access to mental health services, and career development services

PROJECT: Semantic Segmentation of HeLa Cell Micrographs using Convolutional Neural NetworksUsed Caffe's deep learning framework to train a convolutional neural network that performs semantic segmentation on HeLa cells with 87% accuracy

Collaborated with two interns to build Reach, a mobile platform designed to connect volunteers with service opportunities in their communityPersonally presented our project to Mark Zuckerberg as recognition for having built the Best iOS Application in the Facebook University program