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Quebec City, QC, CA

Québec, Quebec, Canada

Quebec City

Pitched, hired and managed the company's data science / DataOps team, which delivered:- a new data infra for user data and content sourcing, and a sunsetting plan for what it replaced- a time-series data utility evaluation framework which correctly identified relevant credit card signal for market forecasting- a point-in-time company-tradename knowledge.

- Spent 3 months in a start-up house in San Francisco for Y Combinator.- Led the technical pitch for a pilot project with a major institutional hedge fund, which we successfully set up.- Led analysis and client presentations with two major hedge funds over the course of two pilot projects.- Led project to find signal in Twitter purchase intent/evidence as.

Davis, CA

As the senior student researcher in Dr. Carl Stahmer's group, I acted as project manager and tech lead of the research team in the Digital Scholarship Lab. Our team worked on various problems and produced a mix of client-facing products, like our interactive large-scale text analytics report generator, and research results, like image matching over very.

Davis

Administration and maintenance of a web server and a computing server for the Robust and Ubiquitous Networks research lab at UC Davis.I also managed the datasets and databases of the research group.

Toronto, Canada Area

Visited Vox Pop Labs for the summer. I did research and development of machine learning technologies over very large social media natural language data sets. I was also involved in product design and pitching to potential clients and investors.

Designed and developed NLP and predictive analytics applications that automate large-scale data collection and data-based decision making.

Québec, Canada

Developed a morphological segmenter, beating state-of-the-art results in French.

Quebec City

During my short time as hired Data Analyst at Wanted, I completed two high impact projects.1. Improving the language detection libraryThe language detection library had trouble dealing with texts in more than one language, which compromised the very first step in Wanted's NLP pipeline. Wrong language attribution in multilingual texts was reduced by 80% to.

Quebec City

My internship project was to develop an automatic desired-skills extractor from job offers that could find skills that the company is not yet aware of, for example the name of a programming language mentioned for the first time. The machine learning system I ended up creating automatically identifies over 30% of previously unseen skills in over 600 job.

Québec, Canada

I worked in the team that handled the technical side of the FQRSC-funded research "Appropriation du vocabulaire spécialisé par les francophones: canaux de diffusion et modes d’intégration", directed by Bruno Courbon.The project involved scraping a 5 billion word corpus from online forums, efficiently storing of the results, and creating a search user.

Québec, Canada

I designed and gave a programming course aimed at teaching automated text manipulation and analysis to linguistics students using Python (LNG-2003, Linguistique informatique).

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Linux User Group of Davis, Network Science Group, Data Science Initiative Left this awesome program to go work.

Certificate, Computer Science

Courses focused on data management and software engineering. Was allowed to complete credit requirements by taking two graduate seminars.

Master'S Degree, Linguistics, 4,25/4,33

Activities and Societies: Head of Faculty founded Open Data Server project, Financial Aid Plan review committee Automatic morphological.

Bachelor'S Degree, Linguistics

Activities and Societies: Student Association :: Undergraduate speaker for the Program evaluation committee (2009), President (2010).