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Mountain View, Ca, Us

- Led research in Computational Cognitive Science and Information Visualization supervised by Dr. Judith Fan.- Built data cleaning, evaluation, and visualization pipeline for large vision-language models to evaluate to improve chart understanding using question answering, leading to a publication.- Used statistical tests, visualizations, and mixed-effects regression models to compare behavioural responses and error patterns between humans and large vision-language model responses.}- Built full-stack web application in Typescript, Node.js, and React to collect text and audio responses.- Used CLIP embeddings to analyze similarity and perform classification on noisy cave drawings.- Analyzed behavioural responses on assessments using dimensionality reduction techniques such as Masked Non-negative Matrix Factorization and Factor Analysis.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

- Conducted research in Bioinformatics and Information Visualization supervised by Dr. Anna Goldenberg.- Built and deployed a web-based visualization tool to assist with the visualization of output from predictive time series models in intensive care units, leading to a publication.- Built and deployed a web-based tool to visualize the contribution of different regulators to the gene expression of 16,000 genes and 21 tissues within The Cancer Genome Atlas.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Supervision by Prof. Jessica Sommerville to build games and tools for research within developmentalpsychology.• Collaborations with PhD students: Mia Radovanovic, Jesse Whiteman, Rebekah Gelpi; PostdoctoralFellow: Emily Kim; LabManagers: Linh Thai, Tim Chao, Hannah Solby.• Developed children’s applications and games to investigate various aspects of social, moral, andcognitive psychology.• Created complex custom tools as sole software developer for lab-wide scheduling, syncing withmultiple platforms• Built custom software to assist with research experiments for infants and children• Build and maintain all features for the lab website (for hosting online experiments and coordinatingparticipants) through aMERN stack with Typescript, developing features as needed for the lab. The website can be found at: https://teclonline.ca• Tech. used: Node.js, MongoDB, React, Typesript, Nginx, Digital Ocean, Pytorch, Webgazer,TailwindCSS.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

- Led research in Human-Computer Interaction and Information Visualization supervised by Dr. Fanny Chevalier.- Designed, built, and analyzed a web-based monetary resource allocation tool to investigate the effects of visualizations and information presentation in decision-making, leading to a publication.- Built a set of 9 games for children that communicate cause-and-effect relationships. Investigated how children interact with the game to build causal associations via interaction, leading to a poster presentation.- Mentored 4 undergraduate students across the domains of Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, and Developmental Psychology. Also organized weekly research seminars and reading groups in human-computer interaction.

Developed a local trading platform between China and Canada for general goods for a private contract.Used Vue and Apollo GraphQL Client as frontend tools.Used Node.js, Prisma, GraphQL-yoga, and AWS S3/EC2 as backend tools.

Developed an application prototype for analyzing the video game: League of Legends. We were accepted in The Entrepreneurship Hatchery Accelerator at UofT (NEST program, 2019 cohort) / 2nd place in the demo day ($10k grant). - Used Electron, Vue, Apollo GraphQL Client, and TailwindCSS as frontend tools.- Used Node.js, Prisma, AWS S3/EC2/RDS, and PyTorch as backend tools- Assisted in building business plan and pitch deck for potential investors and pitch competitions.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

• Thesis Topic: “Understanding Reasoning and Learning from Dynamic 2D Graphics” • Advisor: Dr. Fanny Chevalier at the Dynamic Graphics.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

• Honors Degree with Minors in Statistics and Mathematics • Undergraduate research advisor: Dr. Fanny Chevalier • Independent Research.