About me

I'm a Backend and ML Engineer, working in databases, machine learning pipelines, and artificial intelligence models.

My passion is machine learning and AI and producing products that bring that technology to customers. My current focus is into generative AI and open-souce LLMs!

What I'm doing

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    American Airlines

    Currently, I am working with American Airlines as a software developer working with ML models and producing ML/AI products for business users.

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    MLOps

    Studying and working on modelling, deployment of models, and creating strong machine learning pipelines.

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    Data Science

    Applying data analysis, visualization, and science to find inefficiencies, improve workflow, and communicate data-driven conclusions.

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Education

  1. American Airlines

    2023 — Present

    Working as a software developer in the ML department and producing ML models for business departments.

  2. University Of Texas At Dallas

    2020 — Present

    GPA: 4.0 / 4.0 [Dean's List (x4)]

    Relevant Coursework: Artificial Intelligence, Compiler Design, Advanced Data Structures, Data Structures and Algorithms, Probability and Statistics, Unix and C++, Discrete Mathematics

  3. Coppell High School

    2017 — 2020

    Pursued and obtained IB Diploma along with High School Distinguished Level of Achievement.

    Relevant Coursework: IB HL Mathematics, IB SL Physics, AP Statistics, IB HL Spanish, IB HL English, IB HL History

Achievements

  1. SPLASH/OOPSLA'24 Publication

    January 2023 — May 2023

    Published "Learning to Recommend Exception Handling" with Dr. Tien

    Worked on a multi-tasking model large language model that recommends what exception to give for a code snippet.

    Co-Authors: Yuchen Cai, Aashish Yadavally, Abhishek Mishra, Genesis Montejo, and Tien N. Nguyen

  2. ICSE'24 Publication

    January 2023 — May 2023

    Published "Programming Assistant for Exception Handling with CodeBERT" with Dr. Tien

    Worked on Neurex - a multi-tasking model with the fine-tuning of the large language model CodeBERT for exception handling.

    Co-Authors: Yuchen Cai, Aashish Yadavally, Abhishek Mishra, Genesis Montejo, and Tien N. Nguyen

  3. CS Research Assistant for Professor Tien Nguyen

    January 2023 — Present

    Working at UTD with the Research Lab of Professor Tien Nguyen as a research assistant.

    Currently invovled in two projects - both based in researching AI/ML for Code: API-Representational Learning and Exception Handling with ML.

    Current tasks include aiding the team in building and compiling projects, running tasks on state-of-the-art Ares server, and helping the research in idea creation and discussion. One of the two undergraduate research assistants that Prof. Tien Nguyen hired for research in which UTD is ranked #7 among universities in the United States.

  4. ACM Development Officer

    Novemeber 2022 — Present

    Applying my skills as a backend developer for the ACM Development Team. Primarily, I am involved in helping out in building Portal v2 - the next iteration of the ACM Portal.

    Have been invovled in building out schema for new database system, migrating databases, designing and leading the architecture of the new application system within the Portal.

  5. Top 4 Finalist for Toyota Sponsored Challenge at HackUTD

    November 2022 — November 2022

    Led the creation of a project called Sobrive - an app that used image recognition to help people against drunk driving.

    Had a successful showcase in front of Toyota judges and were in the top four of the projects for the sponsored challenge.

  6. Top 7 Finalist at HackDFW

    October 2022 — October 2022

    Led the creation of a project called Themis - a mahcine learning based service that attempted to aid information equality in the Supreme Court.

    Project was selected to present in front a panel of judges from Google as the finalist project in a competition involving 500+ people.

  7. ACM Research Technical Lead - Object Detection Modelling with Thermal Imaging

    May 2022 — Present

    Being a technical lead for a team to conduct research into object detection with thermal imaging obtained from FLIR dataset.

    Goal is to teach incoming freshmen/sophomore about transfer learning, data augmentation, data preprocessing pipelines, Tensorflow/Keras, and buillding a robut, deployable machine learning model. Hurdles to clear will be preprocessing data, working with complex COCO annotations, understanding transfer learning (ResNet, ImageNet, YOLO) and freezing, and deploying model into real-life and seeing difference between real-life and model-life.

    Final goal: Construct and deploy our image classification model and use it in the garage of the UTD Parking Structures.

  8. ACM Research Mentee - Determining Exoplanets

    January 2022 — May 2022

    Involved with ACM Research to research determining the atmospheric composition of exoplanets with machine learning.

    Led the team in spearheading a plethora of models (FNNs and CNNs) and arrived at mirroring the results of an NASA Astrobiology Team with less resources, time, and experience.

  9. AIS Projects Mentee - Emo7ion

    January 2022 — May 2022

    Involved with AIS Projects to develop a full fledged application called Emo7ion which utilized Computer Vision to detect emotions.

    Led the backend in initializing data in Amazon S3, creating the model in AWS SageMaker, and deploying the model through AWS Endpoints.

    Helped team-members in creation of a front-end application that connected webcam camera to AWS Endpoint for a full model deployment.

  10. StatsPerform ProForum Conference Presenter

    November 2021 — March 2022

    Selected to be one of 10 papers/projects accepted from a global invitation of papers.

    Worked with teammate Soumyajit Bose to create a novel solution to a research prompt by footballing industry's biggest data provider and collector.

    After acceptance of abstract, worked on research to present our findings to a global audience of the data analysts and data scientists from football clubs, companies, and academia.

  11. HackReason 2nd Place Winner

    January 2022 - January 2022

    Led a team of four in a artificial intelligence based hackathon and placed 2nd among a pool of mainly graduate students (only undergraduate winner).

    Using Prolog and SCASP, developed an intelligent system of picking up students that were at risk in development and detailed steps to help them.

  12. ACM Project Mentee - Commodity

    January 2021 - May 2021

    Led a team of four people to make an app called Commodity which connected low-income people to nearby resources utilizing Google Maps API.

    Led the construction of the backend system with Firebase authentication and utilization of Google Maps and Google Places API.

My Soft Skills

  • Leadership
    90%
  • Communication and Interaction
    80%
  • Time Management
    85%
  • Analytical Skills
    90%
  • Adaptability and Flexibility
    90%

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