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New York, New York, United States

Built recommendation systems for mobile and web advertising. Developed Large Language Models for analyzing social media campaigns, performing sentiment analysis, predictingpurchase consideration, and identifying current customers. Deployed Dockerized models for realtime predictions from a Ruby on Rails ad server. Created a Neural Architecture Search system using Tensorflow and Google Vizier. Authored the ETL pipelines for training data and batch inference using Apache Beam and BigQuery on a Terrabyte scale.

San Francisco Bay Area

Explored knowledge distillation for Transformer neural network language models. Performed distributed training on a 16-Node 128 GPU cluster on AWS EC2 instances. Created a dataset from Wikipedia using NLTK

Developed convolutional neural networks to automate sub-atomic particle discovery using PyTorch. Created image datasets from particle accelerator collisions, reducing the 3.5GB of worth of information from each proton collision into KB sized images.

Ithaca, New York Area

Created a Korean language learning game in C# using the Unity API, deploying the game using WebGL. Implemented graph algorithms to synthesize learning progressions that adapt to students’ learning pace & content mastery. Integrated MySQL database for saving user responses.

Ithaca, New York Area

Built and programed a Rasberry Pi based PID controller to stabilize laser frequencies. Collaborated with the OxideMEMS Lab at Purdue University towards developing a hybrid quantum system comprised of ultra-cold atoms and an opto-mechanical resonator.

Ithaca, New York Area

Numerically simulated an Oculus Rift visualized pod racing game using MATLAB. Translated simulations to the motion of MOOG 6 Degrees of Freedom Motion Base.

Greater Chicago Area

Live streamed and visualized pressure data for ultra-high vacuum systems using Python.Filtered and analyzed particle accelerator data sets, and then displayed 3D density plots.

Greater Boston Area

Analyzed data from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory