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UTD BS CS '23
UIUC MCS CS '25
Associate Software Engineer @ Capital One
Part of the AutoNavigator Marketing Data Team. Help build various data pipelines such as a Thompson Sampling feedback script
Also helping in a data visualizer project which processes data metrics related to AutoNavigator.
Software Engineer Intern (again) @ Capital One
Constructed a knowledge graph in Stardog consolidating over 10 billion rows of data over 8 production databases, centralizing exploratory data analysis for machine learning and data correction across Bank, Account, and Data Science teams. In addition worked on downstream applications and testing frameworks utilizing the knowledge graph.
Temporary TIP Director @ ACM UTD
Filled in for the Technical Interview Prep director role and helped a classroom of 24 students learn the ropes of swe interviews
VP @ ACM UTD
Organized, Hosted, and Presented various events, workshops, and meetings. Some specific examples include HackUTD and Fall 2023 Kick-Off
Software Engineer Intern @ Capital One
created angular/springboot/aws full-stack app to move auto-loan letter infrastructure from sql and on-the-fly queries.
Undergraduate Researcher @ UNT
analyzed convolutional neural network sparsity and developed visualization and analytical tools for top tier ILSVRC models
Biography
Ask Iwata
Economics
Analysis of factors informing car purchases on the internet by automotive customers in Germany
Machine Learning
Factors influencing a customers decision to purchase a car
Machine Learning
Building useful models from imbalanced data with sampling and boosting
Machine Learning
Predicting disease risk from highly imbalanced data using Random Forests
Machine Learning
An empirical study on pre-processing high dimensional imbalances for classification
Machine Learning
A review of imbalanced data using oversampling and undersampling techniques
Statistics
Towards measles elimination in Italy: Monitoring herd immunity by Bayesian mixture modeling of serological data
Machine Learning
Imbalanced Classification Problems: Systematic Study, Issues and Best Practices
Machine Learning
Feature Selection for High-Dimensional Data: A Fast Correlation-Based Filter Solution
Cybersecurity
Injecting Software Vulnerabilities with Voltage Glitching - Lu
Cybersecurity
Methodically Defeating Nintendo Switch Security (2019)
Statistics
Likelihood - Berger and Wolpert (1984)
ML
Uncertainty - Natarajan?
Statistics
Biostatistics and Bayes - Berslow (1990)
Statistics
BDA3...
Statistics
MIT OCW 18.05 (Intro to prob and stats)
AI
What the Lone Banana Problem reveals about the Nature of Generative AI
Computer Networks
Beej.us Introduction to Computer Networks
Industry
The Staff Engineer's Path
Multimedia
Optical Delusions: A Study of Malicious QR Codes in the Wild
Multimedia
A Study of Malicious QR Codes
ML
SVMs for Pattern Classification
Economics
How to Day Trade for a Living
ML
Little Book on Deep Learning
ML
Computers and Pattern Recognition (Arkadev and Braverman)
AI
Algorithmic Methods for AI (Griffith and Palissier)
NLP
Tuning Sphinx to Outperform Google's Speech Recognition API
NLP
Investigation on Speech Recognition Accuracy via Sphinx Toolkits (Zealouk et al)
NLP
Robot Operation via Natural Voice Control (Lee et al)
NLP
Voice Call Analytics Using NLP (VS and Kumar)
ML
Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition (He et al)
ML
Learning with Mixtures of Trees (Meila and Jordan)
ML
Approximating discrete probability distributions with dependence trees (Chow and Liu)
NLP
Speech and Language Processing 3rd ed. (Jurafsky and Martin)
NLP
An Alignment-based Approach to Text Segmentation Similarity Scoring (Diaz and Ouyang)
Quantum ML
Challenges and Opportunities in Quantum Machine Learning (Cerezo et al.)
ML + Dist. Sys.
Strategies and Principles of Distributed Machine Learning on Big Data (Xing et al.)
ML
Do Orcas Have Semantic Language? (Sandholm)
ML
Empirical Analysis of Predictive Algorithms for Collaborative Filtering (Breese et al.)
CV
Hybrid Images (Oliva et al.)
AI
Genetic Algorithms - Literature Review (Lambora et al.)
AI
Genetic Algorithms (Forrest)
ML
Spam Filtering with Naive Bayes (Metsis et al.)
Technology
Self Tracking by Neff & Nafus
Reinforcement Learning
Data-driven control of COVID-19 in buildings: a reinforcement-learning approach
I have no idea
Exploring the effects of gamification pedagogy on children’s reading
Bioinformatics
Introduction to Bioinformatics - Ramsden
Networking
All One Needs to Know about Metaverse
Economics
How to Motivate and Engage Generation Clash of Clans at Work?
Economics?
Understanding Currencies in Video Games: A Review
Probability
Optimal Strategy in “Guess Who?”: Beyond Binary Search
Operating Systems
Mixed Scheduling in a Hard Real-Time Environment (Liu & Layland)
Operating Systems
Impossibility of Consensus with One Faulty Process (FLP paper)
Machine Learning
Measuring Overfitting in Convolutional Neural Networks using Adversarial Perturbations and Label Noise
Machine Learning
Analyzing Machine Learning Models for Credit Scoring with XAI and Optimizing Investment Decisions
Operating Systems
Static Resource Allocation in a Distributed System (Lynch)
Operating Systems
A New Solution of Dijkstra's Concurrent Programming Problem (Lamport Bakery Paper)
Bioinformatics/Machine Learning
ProteinNet: A standardized data set for ML models on proteins
Operating Systems
Analyzing Amdahl's Law in Multicore Era
Machine Learning
Understanding Neural Networks Through Deep Visualization
TBA
TBA
semester project looking at various qr scanning techniques and AR technologies
we don't talk about this one...
a repo for code written for utd's cs6375.003 which implements 4 papers + reports
a repo for code written for utd's cs4375.hon
a repo for code written for utd's cs4348.hon
an improved version of my info4900 project. now with bearable design.
tool for utd students to plan schedules and other school things like research, course plans, and more!
time tracking extension that generates a graph like the timer widget on iphone.
simple bookmark extension that syncs across cloud.
java ide that uses linux keybinds. yes it's worse than vim and yes i will try to use it.
website that produces graphs using user-inputted data.
A network graph to plan out the prereqs needed for a course.
interactive site for a covid-19 tweet dataset from Alexander Kahanek.
javafx program that visualizes hidden layer outputs from cnns.
fun hackathon project from alphaHacks with David.
firefox "port" for the sesame extension on chrome.
custom extension that replaces the new tab with my personalized home page.
website that has some of the current projects as well as less interesting ones.