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Kirkland, WA, US

St. Louis City County, Missouri, United States

Consulting for Centene Corporation to support the modernization of their software systems.

Ames Research Center

- Automation of Air Traffic Control (ATC) taxi instructions using transcribed speech of ATC communications using Natural Language Understanding (NLU)- R\&D of NLU unit for computer understanding by leveraging NLP techniques such as intent classification, slot filling, state tracking, and information retrieval

Langley Research Center (LARC)

- Created ML models estimating data center Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) for anomaly detection in resource consumption.- Lead data engineering to incorporate local weather data into PUE modelling- Implemented Vanilla RNN and Seq2Seq LSTM to model PUE time series data using TensorFlow

Midvale, Utah, United States

- Lead R\&D of a novel Active Learning system for text classification to reduce annotation expense- Extracted Bert Sentence Embeddings using HuggingFace, used Keras and Sklearn to implement neural and non-neural text classifiers- Implemented proof-of-concepts of various Active Learners, ran experiments and gathered results- Was consulted to improve design.

Seattle, Washington, United States

- Tutoring K-12th graders in mathematical concepts as a part-time job to supplement my studies while being a masters student at the University of Washington.- Created a fun and inclusive environment where students felt comfortable asking for help.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Error Analysis of Vowel Formants in Automatic Phoneme-Aligned Read Speech of Kazakh, Hausa, and Swedish:- Annotated the variation of expected vowel formats caused by errors made by the Montreal Forced Aligner.- R&D of inter-annotator agreement scores. Implemented Krippendorf's Alpha with both Jaccard and Masi distance of sets using Python.- Created data.

Vashon, Washington, United States

Washington State Licensed Pharmacy Assistant.HIPAA certified.Duties included taking inventory of over-the-counter medication, ensuring patients received thecorrect medication, explaining insurance discrepancies to patients, managing the cash register, and closing.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Washington State Licensed Pharmacy Assistant.HIPAA certified.Duties included taking inventory as well as ordering over-the-counter medication, managing the cash register, and closing.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computational Linguistics, 3.93/4.0

Activities and Societies: Unified Special Olympics Partner Volunteer, Intramural Basketball, Intramural Soccer

Bachelor'S Degree, Mathematics, Linguistics, 3.74/4.0

Activities and Societies: Intramural Basketball and Intramural Soccer BA in Mathematics and a BA in Linguistics