Much of my professional experience is teaching or mentorship related but I am hoping to break into Tech with an internship during Summer 2023. If you are a recruiter looking to fill a machine learning role for Summer 2023, let's chat!
Fall 2022
Because of my work as a teaching assistant in Fall 2021, the Computer Science department at Cornell requested that I teach a course of 200 students in Fall 2022. More information about the course can be found on the Teaching page.
Fall 2021 - Present
CU EMPower (Cornell University Engineering Mentorship Partnership) is a mentorship program within Cornell Engineering that pairs first-year, URM undergraduates at Cornell with a student mentor. I worked as the main coordinator for the whole program (~80 participants) to plan events, support mentors, fasciliate mentor-mentee matches, and make sure the program runs smoothly. If you are a first year undergraduate within Cornell Engineering and are looking for a mentor, feel free to reach out to me!
Spring 2017 - Spring 2019
The Learning Assistant Program at UCLA is an evidence-based multidisciplinary instructional strategy whose purpose is to make introductory science courses at UCLA more equitable. As a program developer, I helped coordinate the efforts of 200 learning assistants whose efforts reached around 5000 UCLA undergraduates.
Summer 2018
Over the summer I worked at a REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) within UCLA Mathematics. We investigated the inertial flow of fluid flowing past a sequence of pillars in a microfluid channel. By analyzing a large dataset of fluid flow deformations, we developed an algorithm to pick optimal pillar sequences to deform an initially square portion of fluid into a desired output shape. We tested the combined use of PCA, genetic algorithms, and various distance metrics.
I have extensive mentoring experience and welcome new mentees!
Fall 2020 - present
UCLA ONE is the website that is used to connect with current students and alumni at UCLA. I mentor Rares Fota (physics major, UCLA class of 2024) who aspires to become a PhD student. Additionally, I mentor Sahire Ellahy (mathematics major, UCLA class of 2022) who is interested in video game development and artificial general intelligence.
Spring 2021
Out In Tech is a non-profit corporation that supports LGBTQ+ individuals in tech through networking events, mentorship, and connections to various resources and jobs around the United States. I participated in their mentorship program and was selected to be the mentor for a UX Researcher named Jed Rodriguez. Together, Jed and I worked in a machine learning and data analysis project in which we analyzed how COVID-19 related to different variables like social service funding, unemployment, crimes and lgbtq population size across the United States. Jed is currently a UX Researcher at Google!
Summer 2021
Reading programs allow undergraduates to learn a subject outside of the classroom and develop scientific communication skills. I mentored Lu Cao (Mathematics and Computer Science and Statistics major, Cornell class of 2023) in a machine learning reading course. We uncovered the mysteries of machine learning through reading Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Bishop and going over Cornell's CS 5780 lectures .