Experience

Professional work experience

Data Scientist Intern @ McKinsey

June 2022 - July 2022

• Developed optimization models for futures pricing and asset allocation.
• Productized models and migrated them to the cloud.

Machine Learning Researcher @ IDSL

May 2021 - April 2022

• Robust Deep Learning: Created new defense against adversarial attacks that significantly outperform previous attempts against AutoAttack.
• Deep Learning System Identification and Adaptive Model Predictive Control: Developed smart system identification algorithms for linear systems. Developed a new method for adaptive model predictive control.
• Aptamer-Compound Affinity Prediction: Currently working on creating better models to better predict the affinity between aptamers and different compounds

Teaching Assistant for MATH 116 Calculus I @ UBC

September 2020 - April 2021

• Teaching Assistant for MATH 116 - Calculus I for Management and Economics at the University of British Columbia. Run tutorial sections, helped students with questions and reviewing material not understood in the lectures.

Data Labelling Team Manager @ Omdena

June 2019 - August 2019

• Image Labelling Manager for the Crops Classification challenge for the United Nation's World Food Programme. The challenge was to predict where (geographically) specific crops (rice and wheat) are being grown in Nepal a current growing season using satellite imagery and deep learning. Organized the labelling team and tasks as well as coordinating our work with the other teams. Implemented a data labelling pipeline that allowed to identify crops with 89 % accuracy.