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Work Experience

• Research Assistant, MIT Center for Constructive Communication

  Sep, 2023 - Present

• Data Science Intern, Unity

  May, 2022 - Aug, 20223 months

  Worked on the Ad Unit Innovation team and conducted feature engineering and hyperparameter tuning experiments on the bid throttling model.

  • Decreased model training time by 25% and reduced model size and number of parameters by 50%.

  • Sped up data preprocessing and increased reusability by creating a text data preprocessing pipeline on Google Cloud Platform Dataflow using Apache beam.

  • Initiated incorporating app store game reviews as a new feature to the Ad Revenue model.

• Undergraduate Student Researcher, Mila Quebec AI Institute

  Jan, 2021 - May, 20214 months

  • Evaluated gender debiasing techniques on pre-trained language models using NLP (paper accepted to ACL'22).

  • Investigated the effect of gender debiasing on fine-tuned language models such as BERT using PyTorch.

  • Explored debiasing methods and reformulated bias metrics for racial and religious biases.

• Web Developer, Men Having Babies, Inc

  Sep, 2017 - Aug, 20224 years 11 months

  • Completely modernized the organization's website and ensure responsiveness for mobile users using RapidWeaver.

  • Lead the project to facilitate workflow and data management for website and incorporated a CMS.

  • Engineered multiple user database systems in Alchemer using complex logical sequences.

• Honours Algorithms and Data Structures Course Assistant, McGill University

  Jan, 2022 - Apr, 20223 months

  • Held weekly office hours for students in the course to answer their questions and help with assignments.

  • Developed solutions for and graded assignments and exams.

• Undergraduate Student Researcher, McGill University

  Jan, 2022 - Apr, 20223 months

  Built probabilistic models for identifying the “geo-indicativeness” of text using novel machine learning techniques applied to big, public, geosocial datasets.

  • Models used to create an educational resource, LocatEd, for increasing location privacy awareness among Canadian youth.

  • Supervised by Dr. Grant McKenzie.

• Student Researcher, SCE - Shamoon College of Engineering

  Jun, 2021 - Aug, 20212 months

  Machine learning (NLP) research project to predict author gender given a text with the goal of performing a case study on female authors who wrote books under male pseudonyms.

  • Preprocessed and cleaned data using Stanford CoreNLP and scikit-learn.

  • Designed and implemented baseline experiments using SVMs.

  • Project supervised by Dr. Irina Rabaev and Dr. Marina Litvak.

• Webmaster, Arts Undergraduate Society of McGill University

  Sep, 2020 - May, 20218 months

  • Increased visual appeal, functionality, and content accuracy on the AUS McGill website.

  • Created the first documentation and detailed exit report for the website in order to facilitate the transition process for the next webmaster.

• Summer Intern, Project Kesher

  May, 2020 - Jul, 20202 months

  Designed and created a multilingual website from scratch using WordPress.

  • Coordinated with international partners and thoroughly documented the website for future reference.

  • Improved organization and security by introducing and implementing a password managing software.

  • Conducted foundation research in order to secure funding for the upcoming fiscal year.

  • Helped streamline workflow and increase at-home work efficiency.

• Forest Project Intern, Wave Hill

  Jun, 2019 - Aug, 20192 months

  Built and maintained woodland trails, removed invasive plant species, implemented erosion control and helped document the process of restoring the disturbed woodland toward a more balanced state while working with a small crew.
  Excelled in a college level Gographic Information Systems (GIS) course.
  Conducted a field research project using independently collected data from the worksite and arcGIS software.

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