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Ontario, Canada

Seoul, South Korea

• Building SOTA neural networks leveraging the YOLO framework for real-time object detection and instance segmentation; e.g., built a drone-based detection model that achieved world-record performance (mAP50-95) on the.
• Building two PERN web apps (Postgres, Express, React, Node), integrating ML pipelines and optimizing KPIs.

Ottawa, Canada

• SYSC 2510: Probability, Statistics, and Stochastic Processes (Python, R)
• SYSC 2006: Imperative Programming (C)
• ECOR 1042: Data Management (Python)
• SYSC 3101: Programming Languages (Prolog, Racket)
• SYSC 2004: Object-Oriented Development (Java)

Ottawa, Canada

Built the Data Protection on Demand (DPoD) platform to provide a wide range of cloud hardware security module and key management services through an online marketplace, making security simpler, more cost-effective, and easier to manage. DPoD's microservice architecture is based on a variety of technologies, including Java/Spring, Python, Go.

Ottawa, Canada

Built the Machine Trust Platform (React-Redux frontend, Python/Flask-SQLAlchemy and Java/Spring Boot microservices, Postgres RDS, integrating Kafka and ELK stack) for measuring, monitoring, and building trust in ML algorithms, integrating various AI trust and governance tools, e.g., IBM's AI Fairness 360 and the Government of Canada's Algorithmic Impact.

Johnstown, Canada

• Doubled biodiesel feedstock production to 15 tonnes/day within a year using statistical process control, boosting revenue by $1.4M/year; optimized automation & data acquisition systems (e.g., distributed control.
• Tuned PID controllers using MATLAB/Simulink, and optimized control strategies using the ArchestrA InFusion Integrated Engineering Environment.
• Troubleshoot lead for the biodiesel feedstock recovery process. Engineering resource in root cause analyses. Revised standard operating procedures.