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California, United States

Palo Alto, California, US

Mountain View, California, US

- Advised multiple startups on technical architecture, whitepaper creation, regulatory compliance, and business model design, cumulatively raising over $200M in capital- Lead writer for the first usage-based insurance (UBI) and electric vehicle grid infrastructure (EVGI) standards for the mobility industry through the MOBI consortium (Ford, GM, BMW, Bosch.

Las Vegas, Nevada, US

- Designed and implemented a write-back cache and async middleware in Go reducing average database/persistence layer latency by 80% and increasing throughput by 500%- Benchmarked weaknesses and access patterns in existing AVL-backed merkle tree design

Berkeley, CA, US

- Built a secure browser based peer to peer cryptocurrency payment app using the Interledger Protocol, reducing cryptocurrency payment finality from 10 minutes to under one second- Guided the R&D department in conducting blockchain research in collaboration with Haas and NUS- Worked with Qualcomm to develop a legal document tracker POC on Ethereum.

Berkeley, CA, US

- Advised research and development projects and connected teams to industry and research laboratories- Explored the use of nondeterministic algorithms for verifiable computing applications- Designed and tested decentralized machine learning systems that can co-verify within local mesh networks such as IoT systems

- Extended state-of-the-art research in memory and compute limited object detectors like RCNN and SSD- Designed and implemented a new CNN with 4.5x fewer FLOPs and 8% higher relative mmAP on vehicle detection tasks than existing public benchmarks, enabling real-time object detection on Raspberry Pis- Experimented with a novel set-prediction neural network.

- Researched end-to-end self-driving vehicle mechanisms with deep convolutional neural networks and recurrent, time-series behavior- Experimented with modifications on neural turing machines and RFCNs to boost model accuracy, loss convergence rate, and robustness- Worked with model compression and convergence stability to improve practicality of end-to-end.

San Francisco, CA, US

- Assisted in the development of the ClickTime REST API and test suites built on the C#, IIS, and.NET stack- Built and extended core business logic over the entire stack with Angular.js and C#- Worked across multiple divisions to draft, design, and implement predictive business analytics features

Berkeley, CA, US

- Researched NLP techniques with novel LSTM-based architectures in deep multi-layered neural nets- Implemented data cleaning, data analysis, and machine learning scripts using Torch- Investigated fact-extraction techniques using the recently released WikiReadings dataset

Redwood City, CA, US

- Programmed web application, reducing code length by 40% and increasing maintainability - Wrote code in Scala, Java, and JS utilizing JSON, AWS, Apache Tomcat, and Beanstalk- Optimized web application reducing latency and doubling efficiency

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Engineering Complex Networks