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San Francisco Bay Area

El Camino High School

Greater Seattle Area

Cortana Conversation Understanding:- Improved completion rate of Cortana skills which required multiple turns with the user - Collaborated to create a new language for rapid authoring of Cortana skillsBing Relevance and Intent:- Worked on improving model validation to catch regressions and prevent live site issues - Unified workflows of teams building.

Mercer Island High School

- Prepared lessons and assisted AP students with lab work to inspire students to continue pursing computer science

Greater Seattle Area

- Bing Core Relevance Team: Working on the speller team to improve query interpretation- Used automated data generation techniques to facilitate globalization of Bing’s spell correction- Utilized data mining techniques in Bing Search logs and investigated potential areas for improvement- Created automated modules to improve efficiency and organization in.

- Start-up Business Group: Working on a video technology team - Worked in all three technical roles as a program manager, developer, and tester- Collaborated with two other interns to plan, design, code, and test our video file management project- Created WPF windows that allowed users to quickly search, filter, and sort stored video files

Houston, Texas Area

- Completed a preliminary mathematical model and user friendly GUI to quantitatively assess IT security risk- Presented the model at API IT Security Conference and fielded questions about its development