Max Berkowitz Email & Phone Number

Montreal, Qc, Ca

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Helping prospective partners of Planned meet their goals for meetings and travel management

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Wrote, edited, and in process of publishing a memoir about my motorcycle accident and brain surgery in northern Thailand

One of 18 students selected from 757 Canadian applicants (~2.4% acceptance rate) to join an esteemed global community of leaders and entrepreneurs

New York, New York, United States

• At a global custodian bank, conducted gap analysis and harmonization of bank's Know Your Customer policy and procedures against the Anti-Money Laundering / Counter Financing of Terrorism regulations of over 40 jurisdictions globally• At a nonprofit organization for performing arts, ideated growth strategies for the expansion of the nonprofit's education branch including financial projections modeled after industry research• At a global custodian bank, analyzed and identified root causes of bank’s Know YourCustomer deficiencies and developed a performance tracking tool to helpreach target state• At a multinational consumer credit reporting company, conducted duediligence on a 3rd party insurance company for potential acquisition• At a global custodian bank, identified and closed major gaps in liquidityrisk processes in preparation for regulatory review

Toronto, Canada Area

Leader of a $140,000 event with direct management of finance, sponsorship, marketing, outreach, and logistics portfolios• Personally closed $41,000 in corporate and academic partnerships• Scaled event from under 200 to over 300 attendees

Max contributed to the implementation of the Canadian Undergraduate Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CUCAI). CUCAI 2019 was the first pan-Canada undergraduate conference on AI, attended by nearly 200 students from Queen's, UofT, McGill, Ryerson, and University of Manitoba plus companies including Shopify, Element AI, and TD Bank. Max lead event creation, logistics, promotional material design, and on-site facilitation of CUCAI 2019.

Leader of a student managed AI consulting group with yearly revenues over $50,000.• Lead overall organizational growth from 107 to 228 members (113% growth) in under 4 months• Established 31 industry-partnered or research-based data science projects including +$30,000 in paid contracts• Providing guidance and mentorship to a 30-person executive team including AI Design, Marketing, and Finance portfolios

As a Director of Design, Max worked within QMIND’s executive body coordinating extensive expansion to the Design Program, with a focus on creating learning and professional development opportunities for students in the field of artificial intelligence and big data. Co-managing a team of nearly 100 design members, Max contributed to the creation and success of 20 AI design teams, many of whom engaged in projects with real-world companies including Klick Health, TD Bank, and The Co-operators Insurance, among others. Max provided support to teams through guidance in project timeline, client acquisition/management, technical troubleshooting, and human resources assistance.

As the leader of a 5 person development team, I participated in a 6 month long machine-learning-based healthcare project in conjunction with neurologists at the Kingston General Hospital.The objective of our project was to predict delirium in ICU patients. The Kingston General Hospital provided our team with time series physiological data including patients’ heart rate, mean arterial pressure, BtO2, and SpO2. Using a convolutional neural network, we classified whether the patient would undergo delirium at any point during their stay in the ICU. Our hypothesis was that there is a fundamental physiological reason for why a patient is at risk of delirium. Our project pipeline generated Grammian Angular Summation/Difference fields and markov transition fields which were used by our convolutional neural network in the same way as an image. Using an imaging approach allowed us to leverage the benefits of convolutional neural networks to achieve a higher classification accuracy with reduced overfitting. At time of writing, our model achieved 80% cross validation accuracy which exceeds the average accuracy of a physician (72%). We are currently in the process of writing a research paper which we hope helps to inform the future automation of delirium detection.

Kingston, Ontario

Member of a rapidly growing artificial intelligence design team during its founding year at Queen's University. On a four person team, Max worked on developing both computer models as well as educational documentation for aspiring students of AI. Max focused on the field of deep learning and, more specifically, neuroevolution while developing a simple model of a benchmark machine learning problem known as the Pole Balancing Test.

Kingston, Ontario

Leader of Canada’s first AI-centric startup incubator, with 114 applicants in its founding year (20 selected).• Mentoring four 5-person startups towards developing a B2B service through creative application of AI technologies

New York, New York

Consultant to senior executives tracking progress on complex merger of two multi-billion dollar companies.• Independently ideated and implemented a software tool enabling management to obtain live snapshots of merger progress• Reduced time to obtain and evaluate merger progress data by over 50% for a 50+ member management team

Kingston, Ontario

Elected to a two-year term, Max represented the Queen’s Engineering student body of over 2000 students at Queen’s Senate, one of the highest governing bodies at Queen's University. At Senate, Max collaborated with professors, deans, and principals at Queen's to discuss, consult, and vote on all matters of academic character affecting Queen’s University.

Kingston, Ontario

Composed of senators from all academic faculties at Queen's University, the Queen's Student Senate Caucus convenes for deliberation on the motions and discussions that come through Queen's Senate, and their impact on the student body that the Caucus aims to represent.In addition, the Student Senate Caucus Chair serves as a member of the Alma Matter Society Assembly, the highest body of undergraduate student governance at Queen's University.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Active member of 20-person engineering team developing state-of-the-art radiofrequency solutions for telecom industry clients.• Independently develop software solutions for the automation of product testing.• Design hardware features for performance enhancement.• Implement hardware designs on in-house product prototypes.• Managed relationship with product manufacturer, including design of product testing process.• First point of contact for trouble shooting of the manufacturer’s product line

San Jose, Costa Rica

Working in collaboration with Queen’s University and the University of Costa Rica (UCR), Max moved to San Jose, Costa Rica in the summer of 2017 for a research position at the UCR’s National Laboratory of Materials and Structural Models. His research findings have significant implications for asphalt materials-based industries, and the potential to be utilized on an international scale.At 19 years old, this experience developed numerous areas of Max’s professional skillset. Through exposure to a Spanish-operating laboratory, Max became advanced in spoken Spanish for professional environments. Working alongside researchers with doctorates in chemistry and civil engineering, Max was expected to manage steep learning curves to collaborate effectively with colleagues. These high standard conditions pushed Max to excel in productivity and quality of work.Max’s research was focused on the aging-related properties of asphalt, with a goal of determining correlation between organic fractional components, thermodynamic properties, and the transition temperature at which elastic property begins to exceed viscous property, commonly known as gel point. Max conducted infrared spectroscopy, modulated differential scanning calorimetry (MDSC), and dynamic shear rheological analyses to determine the effect of cooling on gel point temperature.Max’s findings, primarily relevant to the road construction industry, indicate that the time asphalt spends in isothermal state prior to quality-testing can significantly vary the apparent quality of the material. This information can be used to avoid the implementation and eventual cracking of poor-quality asphalt in roads, airport pavements, or other bitumen-based products.

Kingston, Ontario

Elected representative for 1/3 of the Queen's Applied Science Class of 2020 (total 800 students). Voting member on the Queen's Engineering Council, a student government composed of 35 voting members handling a 1.8M operating budget for the Queen's Engineering Society.

Kingston, Ontario

Member of a student committee which evaluates and manages relationships between the Queen's Engineering Society, and student engineering bodies external to Queen's University. This includes, but is not limited to, engineering societies at other Canadian universities, and non-university affiliated organisations of student engineers, such as the Engineering Student Societies' Council of Ontario (ESSCO).

Ottawa, Canada Area

Ottawa, Canada Area

Ottawa, Canada

Ottawa, Canada Area

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: Queen's Engineering Society, Alma Mater Society, Queen's Machine Intelligence & Neuroevolution Design Computer.

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