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Austin, TX, US

Austin, Texas, US

• Identifying and leading the delivery of high impact deep learning solutions across the company - Matching jobs and job seekers with fine-tuned language models - Parsing resumes with neural networks - Generating and.
• Working with AI-Ethics to pilot an internal algorithm auditing framework
• Presenting technical topics to leadership
• Leading efforts to enable GPU compute capabilities and simplify deployment of machine learning models

Seattle, WA, US

• Developed a novel attention-based Deep Learning technique for Collaborative Filtering
• Led the development of the Deep Learning based system that generated the most engaging (measured by CTR) personalized product recommendations on the Amazon homepage
• Developed contextual bandit algorithms for content ranking on the Amazon mobile homepage
• Developed a system for learning embeddings of millions of products used by multiple teams throughout the company
• Co-organized the Recommender System workshop at Amazon's internal ML conference

Austin, TX, US

• Designed Machine Learning algorithms for one-shot learning, exercise classification, clustering, repetition counting, and form analysis
• Developed and implemented inference and learning algorithms to run in resource constrained embedded environments

Parsippany, NJ, US

• Designed and implemented large scale genotype search algorithms
• Designed algorithms for probabilistic inference of genotypes
• Implemented pipelines for standardizing a variety of semi-structured external data sources by utilizing a combination of statistical natural language processing techniques, heuristics, and human-in-the-loop feedback

Kalamazoo, MI, US

• Developed Machine Learning Algorithms for agricultural disease risk prediction
• Improved recall (true positive rate) through the use of appropriate loss functions and regularization
• Designed cross-validation procedures for spatiotemporal data

Rolla, MO, US

• Wireless Sensor Network development and simulation
• Unsupervised Outlier detection in limited resource distributed computing environments
• Developed a novel dynamic tree based routing scheme

• Worked with small team to design, develop, deploy and maintain websites for local businesses
• Used and maintained a version control system
• Deployed and maintained infrastructure for small to medium sized businesses
• Provided on site, web, and phone support

Master Of Science (Ms), Computer Science

B.S., Computer Science, Mathematics