Romina Abachi Email & Phone Number

Montreal, Qc, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

- Assisted in teaching a class of 6-10 industry participants the foundations of reinforcement learning, created assignments and conducted reading group sessions- Working individually with each company’s group to guide the design of a simulation for their project and implement it in Python, and to come up with possible solutions- Projects were: allocation of trucks to gates at a distribution centre, datacenter cooling, and short-distance fleet management. Some results presented here: https://www.caiac.ca/sites/default/files/shared/canai-2021-presentations/slides-138.pdf.

- Studied literature on verifiable robustness bounds to adversarial attacks, especially those using convex relaxations and duality theory to obtain trainable robust networks with guarantees.- Improved on the state-of-the-art robustness bounds based on convex relaxations by ~8% by replacing the activation function in the dual network by a dual version of leaky ReLU (not published).

Greater San Diego Area

•Designed and programmed a tool in VBA for automating the calculation of trace width on a PCB.•Performed simulations to check the resistance of traces on a PCB to ensure losses did not exceed a pre-determined margin.•Designed a circuit to break-out GPIO connections for testing from a development platform based on the next generation of modems. This included spec'ing for parts, checking layout and stackup, and ensuring mechanical properties were satisfactory.•Designed a test vehicle board for testing chips with very fine-pith ball grid arrays. This included test vehicle included daisy chains for three different chips on different pad geometries, as determined upon design.

• Designed Network Composite Maps using Microstation based on recent development of electrical and civil assets• Wrote Scope documents to plan and organize asset renewal, network vault rebuilds, and conversion of legacy infrastructure• Analyzed capacity of feeders and transformers for new customer connections and made relevant recommendations to the engineers• Forecasting of load and planning for new future infrastructure on Eglinton St. in anticipation of the new Eglinton Crosstown LRT.

• Developed and tested code for CAN communication and data transmission amongst several microcontrollers• Programmed different types of TI microcontrollers to perform tasks related to DC/DC conversion in mobile solar application• Designed schematic for a supervisory board to be used in real-life application• Devised a test platform and designed the schematic and PCB layout for current-voltage characterization of novel Gallium Nitride (GaN) HEMT transistors• Designed complete PCB layout for two-layer and four-layer boards• Automated testing of GaN transistors using LabView• Automated testing of highly efficient power converter board using Labview, interfaced with an AC load, a DC power supply, and two DMM's. • Tested and modified to fit design parameters of an experimental Wireless Sensor Node PCB.

• Currently designing a carbon monoxide and natural gas detector in a team of five• Spec'd sensors, microcontrollers and other components to suit our application• Designed schematic and PCB layout to perform sensing and processing in one board rather than across several off-the-shelf boards• Currently developing code to interface a TI microcontroller with Wifi to transfer data to a remote server

Singapore

Designed, implemented, and tested a novel method of biomarker detection based on measuring current changes across a nanoporous membrane in an electrolyte solution

• Independently designed and tested a system for measurement of emissivity of thin metal surfaces as a function of surface oxidation using contactless IR spectroscopy methods • Supervised and mentored three high school interns, developing leadership skills

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Master Of Science - Ms, Reinforcement Learning

- Supervisors: Amir-masssoud Farahmand and Brendan Frey - Thesis: “Policy-Aware Model-based Reinforcement Learning”

Bachelor’S Degree, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering, 3.92

Activities and Societies: Toronto Solar Decathlon, IEEE Design Team, The Cannon school paper, Skulebook, Youth Sarcoma Initiative