Member of Columbia Startup Lab (CSL), a co-working space for recent Columbia alumni entrepreneurs: http://bit.ly/1cslab

Research in Question & Answering, Relevance Detection, Semantic Web, and Machine Translation:– Implemented a semi-supervised learning approach to automatically identify salient descriptions of newsworthy events– Maintained the automatic post-editing component of a multi-lingual machine translation and linguistic analytics engineResearch in Topic Modeling, Event Tracking, Event Extraction, and Narrative Structure:– Designed the architecture and supporting analytic tools of a system for understanding and visualizing the narrative structure of important world events, specifically natural disasters

Research in Web Crawling, Information Extraction, Topic Modeling, Text Generation, Machine Learning, and Summarization:– Upgraded the system's title generation model for a 10% increase in success rate– Applied a novel supervised learning approach to the detection and extraction of online news content

– Provided research and analytical support in the legal due diligence process for the purchase transaction of a Brazilian alternative asset manager with $5.8 billion AUM– Led weekly meetings advising the General Counsel and CCO on current developments in regulatory reform and rulemaking progress pertaining to the Dodd-Frank Act– Designed a weekly calendar to plan strategic responses to Dodd-Frank provisions affecting our company– Headed an interdepartmental project implementing an investment guidelines framework for monitoring risk

– Consulted local businesses and organizations about socially-conscious practices and marketing strategies– Conducted extensive grassroots field outreaches educating citizens about important health issues– Developed a business plan that contributed to the creation of a community bank in a rural Ecuadorian town– Wrote, edited and distributed instructional guides addressing local farming and sustainability issues– Participated in an eight-week, intensive Spanish language program