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Identify and correct late-stage grammar and content issues in technical learning materials;Write accessibility text for e-textbooks, describing didactic visual animations.

Process audio data with transforms to detect acoustic phenomena;Integrate state-of-the-art detection methods with Python, R, and specialized software;Compose reports on issues and solutions to current software requirements for research goals.

Assisted undergraduates in two courses: Machine Architecture and Programming Languages;Graded homework, labs, and exams.

Composed research paper on controlled text generation with rhetorical relations;Used Hugging Face to test a novel decoding scheme with various language models;Paper accepted to the EACL 2024 main proceedings: "Language Model Sentence Completion with a Parser-Driven Rhetorical Control Method" (Joshua Zingale and Jugal Kalita, 2024).

Contributed to in-house neural network engine in C++ and CUDA;Implemented LSTM forward and backward propagation with CUDA GPU code;Composed research report, discussing computational methods and preliminary results.

Developed web services using Javascript and the Django Python framework;Configured Linux server with Apache to host Django web services;Built appointment scheduling web service that syncs with real-world locking mechanisms;Utilized mapping technology to collect location data for San Diego homes.