CV
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Research Assistant, UC Santa Cruz
Mar. 2017 – present
Controlling and Generalizing Stylistic Variation with Neural Natural Langauge Generators.
Creating datasets using Personage to experiment with seq-to-seq models to test their ability to learn stylistic variation. Creating tools for measuring semantic accuracy as well as stylistic variation.
Research Assistant, UC Santa Cruz
Nov. 2014 – Feb 2017
Classifying Blog Stories into Emotion Categories and Identifying Positive/Negative Events and Targets.
Finding patterns associated with positive and negative emotions using
AutoSlog-TS and categorizing these blogs. Finding events in these
categorized blogs and associate these events and scripts of events with
positive and negative emotions.
Teaching Assistant, Software Engineering/Algorithms, UC Santa Cruz
Jan 2016-present
Run a lab, help students with homework, assist in class, evaluate homework
Data Science Intern, UserTesting, Mountain View, CA
June-Sept. 2016
Tested sentiment analysis techniques on transcription data.
Independent Contractor, Progressly
July-Sept. 2014
Created an internal dashboard for the company website. Allowed the users to both monitor the progress of the company and to edit the main page of the Progressly webpage.
Project Manager, Harvey Mudd Computer Science Clinic
Sept. 2013 – May 2014
For Harvey Mudd's Senior Clinic Project I worked with a group to use computer vision to find features within images of apatite crystals for Apatite to Zircon, Inc. I created a LabView interface for the modules my group created. The interface could be used to adjust results of the modules, such as correcting results, adding missed features, and correcting false positives.
Research Assistant, Harvey Mudd Computer Science Research
June-Aug. 2012
I created a user interface that navigates a robot through a map. This navigation was used as navigation for a robot that followed the hallways the map displayed, to do so I created a program that directs robots through string messages and directly.
Languages
PYTHON
JAVA
RUBY
HTML/CSS
Skills
LATEX
EXCEL
Education
UC Santa Cruz
Sept. 2014 - present
Pursuing a PhD in Computer Science in the Natural Language and Discourse Systems (NLDS) lab with a 4.0 GPA.
UC Santa Cruz
Sept. 2014 - June 2016
Received a M.S. in Computer Science with a 4.0 GPA.
Harvey Mudd College
2010 - 2014
Received a B.S. in Computer Science in May 2014. On the Dean's List for 5 Semesters. Graduated with Distinction and a GPA of 3.4.