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Houston, TX, US

Ludwigshafen, DE

👥 Team: Production AI🎯 Focus: Act as a change agent who drives scalable, innovative AI in chemical production units to enable more efficient and safe operations.👉 Value owner of a software product aimed at training and deploying machine learning models across production sites. Contributions: secured $250K funding, led team in development using agile.

Ludwigshafen, DE

👥 Team: Digitalization Isocyanates🎯 Focus: Build end-to-end AI systems applying machine learning and mathematical optimization to solve decision-making problems in manufacturing.👉 Developed a digital twin of a production unit, enabling operations to monitor quality, simulate hypothetical scenarios, and receive real-time recommendations. Estimated $4M.

Ludwigshafen, DE

👥 Team: AI Solutions for Sales, Marketing, and Customer Engagement🎯 Focus: Implement cloud-based data science products for business functions.👉 Scaled ETL and machine learning pipelines for customer churn solution using PySpark/Databricks👉 Managed team of 4 developers in building a proprietary market intelligence product for internal clients in strategic.

Berkeley, CA, US

🏫 Project: WriteAssist - Improving Writing Education Using GenAI🎯 Focus: Reduce teacher burnout and improve student ​writing proficiency by equipping teachers with a ​classroom-aligned AI assistant that automates ​feedback generation and supports students with ​1:1 counseling.👉 Formulated novel product idea and strategy, conducted market research and.

Berkeley, CA, US

🏫 Project: Teaching Small Language Models the Socratic Method🎯 Focus: Discover a more effective way of eliciting multi-hop reasoning in smaller language models. 👉 Formulated the research question by identifying gaps / open questions in the existing research literature around reasoning in language models👉 Designed the experiment parameters and evaluation.

Ludwigshafen, DE

👥 Team: Production AI🎯 Focus: Solve a business problem in a manufacturing plant using machine learning👉 Developed cloud application with productionized machine learning, data management, and automated data pipelining using SciKit-Learn, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and Gitlab with an estimated $500K savings potential👉 Applied weak supervision AI, NLP, and.

Austin, Texas, US

🏫 Project: YOLBO - You Only Look Back Once🎯 Focus: Investigate the incorporation of previous timestep information to increase object detection in video data👉 Conceptualized and wrote an algorithm called YOLBO that enhances the performance of object detection models on video data by incorporating detections made in previous timeframes👉 Demonstrated a 1-6%.

Parsippany, New Jersey, US

👥 Team: TPO Technical🎯 Focus: Introduce a process to automate collection of waste👉 Built a TensorFlow neural network model to predict waste yield for a manufacturing line that lost the ability to measure waste yield directly due to automation (achieved an adjusted R-squared of 0.93 on test set)

Master'S Degree, Information And Data Science

Bachelor'S Of Science, Chemical Engineering

Minor, Computational Science And Engineering