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San Francisco Bay Area

• Independently leading a project, which includes designing, mentoring other engineers, and communicating with a variety of stakeholders (product managers, UI/UX, and research scientists) to automatically train customer’s models and provide newly updated recommendations through the use of AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, Step Function, and EventBridge, which immediately increased daily revenue• Triaging, independently root causing, and collaborating across different teams for 60 tickets a week, including sev2s and customer tickets, while maintaining pipelines to ensure developer’s productivity and product quality as production oncall• Developing model updates for new data with feature compression to manipulate datasets efficiently to process data with 50 metadata columns through PySpark and AWS Glue• Designing and implementing of the integration of statistical analysis on the machine learning models to help customer’s better understanding the performance of our models including NDCG, coverage, recall, precision, ROC AUC, and MRR through Sklearn

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Assisting physics professors during lectures with ~100 students and by answering ~500 students’ questions on Piazza• Leading 3 weekly discussions, 1 weekly review session for quizzes, and 2 weekly office hours to help students improve their understanding of physics concepts and problem-solving skills• Proposing improvements to remote learning to ease struggles for both professors and students• Connecting physics professors with peer tutoring in ERC to provide students more resources

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Characterizing HeLa cells’ and differentiated ESC’s alternative promoters, which are determined by the HITindex pipeline, by their genomic composition, transcription factors, and transcription dynamics in an independent project• Developing a variety of data visualizations (box plots, histograms, line plots, scatter plots, heatmaps) and performing statistical analysis on RNA-seq (n=31344) and ENCORE’s FASTQ data (n=530) by using R, Python, and bioinformatic tools• Guided two high school students through their research projects on the bidirectionality of nascent RNA reads, poly(A) sites, and 5’ splice site strengths in alternative promoters by providing step-by-step directions and all necessary code• Assisted in implementing and debugging of the HITindex pipeline• Presented at a poster on RNA-binding proteins’ relationship with alternative promoters

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Assisting computer science professors by answering ~600 students’ questions on Piazza, a learning management system• Conducting 3 weekly office hours and 1 discussion to teach students problem solving skills and programming fundamentals through Python• Grading and providing feedback for ~600 students’ coding assignments

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Providing one-on-one tutoring sessions for Boston University students in Intro to Biology, Statistics, Intro to Physics I & II, Genetics, and Systems Physiology• Planning tutoring sessions to match tutees learning style and advising them in studying and exam taking strategies to assist in their academic success

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Creating a safe environment for mentees to speak about anything and advising them in academics and extracurriculars

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Prepared solutions and lab equipment for general chemistry lab and assisted ~15 students at a time throughout lab

Rockville, Maryland, United States

• Assisted professional coaches in teaching figure skating, hockey, and synchronized skating in groups of ~10 skaters• Worked as a skating summer camp counselor and Best Buddy, which provided one-to-one assistance for skaters with disabilities within group lessons

Beijing City, China

• Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: performed qt-PCR, gel electrophoresis, and western blot to study HuB, HuC, HuR, and HuD; 6th author publication in Nucleic Acids Research• Department of Bioinformatics: coded Python scripts that searched through literature and text files to extract gene information related to aneurysms to create a database through Django, R, and SQLite

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Tutored Spanish-speaking adults in English, specifically in helping them adjust to America, and provided elementary level Spanish to English translations

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Shadowed Dr. Diego Preciado in his ENT operating room and clinic• Collected and cleaned data for otitis media clinical research

Biology

High School Diploma