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• Taught Machine Learning at Scale, which covers the underlying principles required to develop scalable machine learning pipelines for structured and unstructured data at petabyte scale.
• Received the MIDS Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, which recognizes one graduating MIDS student for providing academic guidance, command of the subject area, and support or motivation of students, as voted by.

Richmond, CA

• Analyzed and reverse-engineered lubricating oils from competitors as part of the Competitive Products Analysis (CPA) team.
• Implemented improvements to CPA analytical methodologies to remove bottlenecks, decrease operational cost, and increase the quality of results, which increased demand and throughput while cutting operational costs.
• Proposed, designed, and implemented a digitized CPA sample queue and database that is accessible to our partners globally, which increased transparency and prioritization of high impact requests.
• Authored CPA quarterly highlights publications shared with VP-level leads. This publication summarizes trends and insights from CPA for both technical and business readers.
• Mentored underprivileged high school students to complete on-site research projects as part of the American Chemical Society’s Project SEED program.

• Functionalized and characterized carbon nanotubes for fabrication and testing of reverse osmosis membranes.

• Led development of a reaction process to convert lipids extracted from microalgae into marketable products like biodiesel and Omega-3 supplements, patented in December 2011 (US20110313181A1).
• Supervised and directed summer intern to perform optimization studies on the algae lipid reaction process.

Masters, Information And Data Science

Masters Of Science, Chemistry

Bachelor Of Science, Chemistry And Mathematics