Michael Gardner Email & Phone Number

On the AIML team, serving as a Python Developer in AI/ML and AI advocate across multiple product teams, with special focus in Natural Language Processing solutions

● Led the transition of legacy classification systems to utilize deep learning, beginning with a project leveraging LLMs for sentiment analysis of 16 million financial documents.● Annotated 1000s of lines of text to refine the accuracy and efficiency of regex classification, contributing to the Snowflake SQL database on the AWS backend.● Developed signals based on aggregated data that achieved a 60-65% correlation with stock movements in the Russell 1K index before expanding the project to other domains.

● Proposed and developed a new stage in a customer service analytics pipeline to classify dialogue acts that analyze speakers' intents on a 2-person team.● Designed a set of 24 domain-specific tags from the DSTC8 model, annotation guidelines for the tag set, and a Javascript annotation tool in which to work.● Implemented a 4-stage parsing and classification system with a competitive collaboration of models retrained from off-the-shelf NNs and LLMs.● Presented the experimental results of 80% accuracy, justifying the project's expansion.

Greater Boston Area

● Refined label definitions and annotation guidelines for a model predicting extremist radicalization events, annotating thousands of events from disparate news and legal sources in the PostgreSQL database schema.● Coded functional Python scripts for novel tasks like OCR with Google Tesseract to improve the extraction of readable text from raw sources, augmenting annotations.● Facilitated collaboration between the machine learning and research data teams by communicating the technical aspects of weekly milestone reports.

Newark, De

Student Wellness and Health Promotion● Managed outreach, public relations, and digital communications for the department charged with engaging students on campus in a dialogue about health with dozens of events and programs, in-person and across the big three social media platforms.● Maintained the website (including leading a major WCAG features update overhaul) and managed social media presence (from creating weekly content for Mailchimp newsletters to driving Instagram followership up 600%).

Newark De

● Filled an IT position at the Morris Library Student Multimedia Design Center, troubleshooting, debugging, and demoing software for groups of 1-15 at a time.● Performed maintenance on the stock of hundreds of pieces of hardware available on loan from the library for students (computers, recording, A/V, VR, and design equipment).

Saratoga Spring, Ny

● Led classes of 10-15 students in lessons on formal logic and mathematical proofs.● Conducted the lessons under four different classroom leadership paradigms, fulfilling new roles, grading papers, or coordinating with admin, as needed by each lead instructor.

Saratoga Springs, Ny

● Led classes of 10-15 students in lessons on formal logic and mathematical proofs.● Conducted the lessons under four different classroom leadership paradigms, fulfilling new roles, grading papers, or coordinating with admin, as needed by each lead instructor.

Newark, De

Teaching Assistant for Philosophy 205 - LogicGrading papers, proofs, etcLeading group tutoring sessions (3-12 college students)

Newark De

Tutor through the UD Office of Academic Enrichment,for everything from Linguistics to Comp Sci, Logic to PhonologyThis included crafting one on one lessons, coordinating schedules and payAlso, in association with the Philosophy Department, as Logic TAGroup Tutoring was offered weekly for that class

Master Of Science - Ms, Computational Linguistics

Masters in Computational Linguistics; that's a specialization in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing

Bachelor'S Degree, Linguistics

Bachelor's in Linguistics, with Comp Sci minor; creating a custom specialization preparing me for the field of Computational Linguistics