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San Diego, California, United States

Boise, Idaho, United States

• Successfully deployed two machine learning models for failure prediction of printer components to an AWS Sagemaker endpoint. This streamlined the end-to-end ML workflow and expanded the existing framework for ML.
• Created a step-by-step guide for Sagemaker model deployment and inference invocation to achieve consistency and scalability for the team of 15 ML engineers.

Berkeley, California, United States

• Established the requirements, deliverables, and project plan for a consulting assignment for classification of breast mammography images using computer vision techniques.
• Recruited, interviewed, built, and managed a team of 7 consultants. The team successfully generated image embeddings using CNNs and validated that their performance meets or exceeds that of the baseline embeddings.

Berkeley, California, United States

• Built a model using Keras and Tensorflow for company Grocery Outlet that can generate a description of a grocery product given an input image of that product.

Dallas, Texas, United States

• Demonstrated the application of 8 built-in AWS Sagemaker algorithms for classification, clustering, NLP, and time series problems for a data science team of 20.
• Created example coding notebooks with documentation to demonstrate the acceleration of ML training and deployment with Sagemaker.

San Francisco, California, United States

• Built a marketing mix model (Bayesian regression) to predict revenue generated by clients’ online advertisement spending.
• Developed a Python-based budget optimizer tool to maximize forecasted client revenue by fine-tuning ad spending.

Palo Alto, California, United States

• Developed a Python script to determine relative distances and cosine similarities of term frequency vectors used for text-based visualization. This work established the reproducibility and reliability of the VALUENEX.
• Used Radar to derive insights into strategic orientation of 5 key client companies including Phillips and Northrop Grumman by analyzing documents related to their profiles and intellectual property and presented the.

Palo Alto, CA

• Collected and analyzed social survey data for research contributing to an understanding of racial attitudes towards African Americans, Hispanics and Asians.
• Collected data on ballot support for state government bond issues and performed analysis based on bond type, amount and repayment period.
• Collected quantitative and qualitative data for a machine learning model to analyze the hiring and firing of football coaches in the NFL between 1987 and 2017.
• Assisted in editing a book about sports business management authored by Professor George Foster.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Assisted research team on a project analyzing quantitative data representing voters’ knowledge and interest regarding different voter referendums.
• Used Python programming to retrieve Google Trends data to compare Google search volumes for different voter referendums, such as 2016 Brexit and 2011 UK Alternative Vote.

Cupertino, CA

• Developed a schedule for Cupertino Mayor Vaidhyanathan’s activities for 4th of July celebrations under guidance of the Deputy City Manager. Shadowed the mayor on July 4th, photographing Mayor’s activities and keeping.
• Authored an independent report for Cupertino Parks and Recreation Department on how to improve Teen Center operations and services.

Cupertino, CA

• Represented the city of Cupertino as part of the student exchange program. Shadowed a Japanese student at school and stayed with a Japanese family for a week. Later hosted two Japanese students at my home.
• Delivered a short speech to Cupertino City Council in a room of 50 summarizing cultural exchange experiences.
• Published two articles covering my experiences, 1) in the Cupertino Patch and 2) in the SF Consulate General Newsletter.
• Volunteered for Cupertino Cherry Blossom Festival which serves to further USA-Japan friendship.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science, Economics

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Captained varsity Track & Field and junior varsity Basketball teams. DECA.