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San Francisco, California, United States

• Developed statistical demographics models using Ruby and MongoDB for the Usage Intelligence team.
• Enhanced client estimates through impactful projects, including more accurate bias adjustments and cross-platform blending algorithm restructuring.
• Led product enhancements contributing to client retention and new sales, such as demographics estimates by country and region.
• Analyzed active user estimates and presented findings during quarterly reviews and in response to client queries.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• Developed machine learning baselines in Python and PyTorch for semi-supervised natural language classification with streaming data.
• Implemented self-training baseline with feedforward and LSTM deep learning architectures to demonstrate SSL effectiveness.
• Researched advanced algorithms like consistency regularization and created prototypes using Hedge Backpropagation in an online deep learning context.

New York, New York, United States

• Developed word embedding representations for food items using spaCy and FastText based on food journal data.
• Evaluated embedding performance through qualitative analysis on downstream tasks like substitute food extraction, enhancing results with internal food ontology data.
• Implemented SQL and Python code as an end-to-end pipeline in the company's data science library, and showcased work at HealthRecSys 2019 Workshop.

Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

• Courses: Web Programming, Programming Methodology, Human-Computer Interaction, etc.
• Assist students on concepts and assignments during weekly office hours and discussion sections
• Test and grade both written and programming assignments

Hopkinton, Massachusetts, United States

• Modified Alteryx and SQL workflow to generate time series data for KPIs
• Performed basic trend analysis using linear models and time series methods
• Pulled data onto web dashboard and visualized results using D3.js

Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States

• Implemented alert management system for cryptographic routers using Elastic stack
• Optimized Elastic stack to handle, on average, 30 times more alerts than the baseline system
• Developed Windows installer in C# for Elastic stack, packaged with an open-source security framework

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science And Mathematics (Double Major), Gpa: 3.45/4.0

Activities and Societies: UMass Amherst ACM Student Chapter