Professional Experience

    • Comcast
    • Software Engineer - Machine Learning
    • 07/21 - Present

      • George Washington University, Department of Computer Science
      • Graduate Assistant (PhD)
      • 09/19 - 12/20
        • Performed analysis of bias in ride-hailing pricing algorithms in Chicago, including data collection, experiment design, and novel metric development; first author of project accepted at AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AAAI/ACM AIES 2021)
        • Contributed to analysis of Twitter content for biases related to COVID-19 outbreak, performing state of the art techniques for bias measurement on GloVe word embeddings; 2nd author of paper accepted at IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing
        • Performed teaching assistant role in introductory machine learning course and introductory python programming course

      • UVA Center for Advanced Vision Science
      • Software Engineer - Bioinformatics
      • 10/17 - 05/19
        • Performed regression analysis on large patient insurance claim dataset to predict patient survival and determine drug efficacy; co-author of two resulting publications in Nature Communications and PNAS
        • Ported and analyzed large patient insurance claim data set on a high performance cloud computing platform using Slurm workload manager

      • Nokia Bell Labs
      • Software Engineer Intern - Machine Learning
      • 06/19 - 08/19, 06/18 - 08/18
        • Designed pipeline for diagnosing and deploying fixes on Openstack cloud architecture using long short-term memory neural network developed using Keras, successfully correcting >80% of detected faults
        • Implemented real-time anomaly detection on Openstack cloud architecture using autoencoder neural network developed using Keras
        • Project was selected to be presented to Nokia Bell Labs senior leadership and CEO from among all other interns and given Nokia Bell Labs Innovation Project Award

      • Deloitte Consulting LLP
      • Business Technology Analyst
      • 07/16 - 08/17
        • Led testing and validation of state eligibility notice generation system
        • Created design documentation for application additions
        • Communicated between client stakeholders and development team to facilitate adaptation of application change requests

      • UMASS Amherst CS 326: Web Programming
      • Grader
      • 07/16 - 08/17
        • Reviewed and corrected student Node.js JavaScript code
        • Provided feedback to students on their code and project ideas
        • Directed student project development and JavaScript programming

      • ConvergeHealth
      • Software Engineer Intern
      • 06/15 - 08/15, 06/14 - 08/14
        • Debugged and extended multiple pieces of data mining software
        • Created user interface for an application demo system
        • Created demo presentations for data mining applications

    Education

      • University of Virginia
      • Master of Science
      • Computer Science
      • 09/17 - 05/19

      • University of Massachusetts at Amherst
      • Bachelor of Science
      • Computer Science
      • 09/11 - 05/16

      • University of Massachusetts at Amherst
      • Bachelor of Arts
      • Philosophy
      • 09/11 - 05/16