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Natick, Massachusetts, United States

Natick, Massachusetts, United States

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Computing, Society, & Professionalism
• Instruct two discussion-based weekly sections and moderate lectures covering topics in ethics, intellectual property, privacy, censorship, and case studies using various academic and real-world resources
• Grade written assignments and quizzed on these aforementioned topics, highlighting technical communication

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Generated knowledge graphs from 5-sentence stories using the GLUCOSE causal knowledge dataset and a question-answering transformer model
• Implemented an algorithm using term frequency-inverse document frequency to analyze the cooccurrence of words to identify changes in causal relations in a knowledge graph
• Utilized several keyword extraction algorithms to compute a heuristic for traversing a state-space towards a narrative goal in the generation of a new story

Natick, Massachusetts, United States

• Extracted and preprocessed localization and translation memory data using Jira and MemoQ APIs in MATLAB and Python
• Conducted a literature review of existing solutions for automated effort estimation in the context of software development and determine the most appropriate solutions to estimate effort for a project of content.
• Implemented and evaluated several machine learning algorithms (KNN, Decision Trees, Naïve Bayes, SVM) in Python and MATLAB for effort estimation of localization tasks for the Globalization Engineering team
• Built a predictive model for MATLAB Build-and-Test historical date with a team of interns using MATLAB’s classification learning interface to improve the efficacy of removing failed tests from release

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Game Artificial Intelligence
• Modified homework functions and test cases and tested auto-graders for programming assignments
• Conducted office hours to assist students on programming assignments regarding path planning, behavior trees, grammars, procedurally generated content, genetic algorithms, rule-based systems, and reinforcement learning
• Moderated lectures and answered questions regarding applications and implementation of Game AI technologies

San Mateo, California, United States

• Writing APIs to support programmatic access to medical ontologies integrated as a new module to automate manual verification of patient data
• Implementing a clustering algorithm for the entity resolution pipeline to identify key medical concepts in patient record databases

Atlanta, Georgia

• Developing a computational linguistic tool using TensorFlow and NLTK to interpret the humor values of individual words
• Developing and integrating a script using NLTK to assess the phonological characteristics of generated words in the English language
• Designed a categorization scheme using TensorFlow’s word2vec library to map words to a 6-dimensional semantic space
• Testing computational tool output predictions against previous research findings on single-word humor ratings

Atlanta, Georgia

• Developed a web application using ASP.NET Core and AngularJS to provide mortgage tracking analytics and sales data
• Implemented views in AngularJS to display data about mortgage lifecycles using Material Design with accessibility in mind
• Designed and developed middleware for querying and parsing data from backend microservices

Atlanta, Georgia

• Supervised workshop during operating hours and maintained machines (laser cutters, 3D printers, hand tools, power tools)
• Tracked inventory of tools and materials as well as records of workshop user training

Atlanta, Georgia

• Basic Modeling of Helicopter Flight Dynamics, (Aug 2017 – Dec 2017)
• Developed a tool in MATLAB in association with Safran S.A. to identify power requirements for a range of rotorcraft flight envelopes
• Integrated with a larger Simulink program factoring in various other parameters to compute overall performance requirements
• Documented the mathematical and qualitative function of each program module, new user instructions, and academic sources

Atlanta, Georgia

• 6-DoF Vehicle and System Simulation (Jan 2017 – Aug 2017)
• Developed a user interface in MATLAB for aircraft design which generates rendered models and aircraft metadata for simulation
• Implemented a program to interpolate user-specified points along orthogonal views of aircraft to plot a model in 3D space
• Wrote a script in MATLAB to parse and convert 3D tensors into FlightGear simulator object files

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science, Gpa: 3.9

Specialization in Machine Learning Highest Honors

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science (Intelligence & Information Internetworks), Gpa: 3.48

Concentrations in Artificial Intelligence and Informational Internetworks High Honors

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