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Washington, Dc, Us

Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

Assisted Dr. Abhijit Mishra's research on the impact of deep learning on NLP and multimodal QA models using next-gen AI architectures, methodologies, and tools• Generated improved multimodal datasets, testing with GPT-3/4, and optimizing machine learning models for conversational generative AI agents• Investigated how to effectively combine and align visual and textual information in multimodal question answering systems• Analyzed the performance, scalability, and robustness of multimodal question answering models

Austin, Texas, United States

Worked with Dr. Dhiraj Murthy and other undergraduate researchers to perform data analysis and write academic papers centering on trends in social media data.• Used Python and cloud computing to pull large amounts of social media text data for analysis• Created visualizations of findings and stored code in GitHub repository• Gained better understanding of how to conduct analysis on qualitative text data and how to collaborate with other researchers to write academic research articles

Houston, Texas, United States

• Conducted analysis on trends in electronic component price data to facilitate in sales• Worked with Python and SQL to analyze machine learning tool to predict future component prices• Gained valuable industry experience working with senior data scientists in a fast-paced corporate setting