Experience

Saama

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Software Engineer, AI Research

  • Mar 2021 - Present



Associated Students of the University of California

• United States
• Political Organizations
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Local Government Relations Director

  • Aug 2019 - Aug 2020

  As Local Government Relations Director, my responsibilities include:• Supervising all advocacy work focused on the City of Berkeley and overseeing the Local Government Relations Department• Developing the office’s advocacy strategy for specific items that appear before Berkeley's City Council, especially those relating to housing, homelessness, public transit, climate change/the environment, and the UC Berkeley campus• Maintaining strong relationships with city officials, neighborhood officials, community organizations, and other relevant groups

• Local Organizing Manager

  • Aug 2018 - Aug 2019

  Tasked with spearheading organizing efforts around local issues such as the closure of Alta Bates Medical Center and student housing, while working with student groups to aid them in becoming more efficient organizers using ASUC resources.

• Physical and Mental Health Resource Database Project Manager

  • Aug 2017 - Aug 2018

  Created a database of emergency and physical health services offered to UC Berkeley students within the Student Health Insurance Program (SHIP). Developed a close relationship between the ASUC, the Tang Center, and the Health Worker Program.



UC Berkeley Department of Political Science

• Berkeley, California

• Data Science Research Assistant

  • Jan 2019 - May 2020

  • Applied data science and machine learning techniques to pinpoint causes for socioeconomic disparities in India • Used Python and R to clean datasets, generate descriptive statistics and visualizations that capture underlying data patterns, and merge multiple datasets • Applied data science and machine learning techniques to pinpoint causes for socioeconomic disparities in India • Used Python and R to clean datasets, generate descriptive statistics and visualizations that capture underlying data patterns, and merge multiple datasets



Data Science for India

• United States
• Education Administration Programs

• Curriculum Co-Coordinator

  • Jan 2018 - May 2020



Bureau of Labor Statistics

• United States
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Data Science Fellow

  • Jun 2019 - Aug 2019

  • Used Python, machine learning, and natural language processing to help develop and improve an autoencoder model for the Occupational Requirements Survey (ORS) database as a part of Coding It Forward’s Civic Digital Fellowship program • Built a machine learning algorithm that extracts and classifies tasks for each job entry in the ORS database using logistic regression, Random Forests, and stochastic gradient descent • Presented my project to members of the civic tech community during a fellowship-wide Demo Day



American Medical Student Association (AMSA)

• United States
• Public Policy Offices
• 100 - 200 Employee

• BearCare Taskforce Chair

  • Apr 2017 - May 2019

  • Lead an eight-member team to develop BearCare, an iOS app for UC Berkeley students that consolidates physical and mental health resources and provides mobile assistance for public health issues such as nutrition and health literacy • Secured $2000 in funding at the Big Ideas Competition out of over 300 teams by drafting a 15-page proposal and pitching the app to a panel of VCs • Developed a partnership with an engineering team, University Health Services, and UCSF's COO for Digital Health Innovation to identify relative health needs for students and develop key features for the app



University of California, Berkeley School of Optometry

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Intern

  • Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

  • Worked with Professor Martin Banks in the Department of Vision Science to develop a repository of Python code in order to enable the function of the Intel RealSense camera • This camera has been used to analyze the near-work hypothesis and pinpoint the source of the growing trends of myopia among American youth • Worked with Professor Martin Banks in the Department of Vision Science to develop a repository of Python code in order to enable the function of the Intel RealSense camera • This camera has been used to analyze the near-work hypothesis and pinpoint the source of the growing trends of myopia among American youth



Odyssey at UC Berkeley

• Berkeley, CA

• Co-Editor in Chief/Contributing Editor

  • Jun 2016 - Apr 2017

  • Edited content for style and syntax • Spearheaded recruitment and social outreach in order to connect with possible Content Creators, while coaching staff writers on content ideation and savvy social media techniques • Led a staff of 40 writers and helped managing editors coach struggling EICs across the country through mentoring and advising • Edited content for style and syntax • Spearheaded recruitment and social outreach in order to connect with possible Content Creators, while coaching staff writers on content ideation and savvy social media techniques • Led a staff of 40 writers and helped managing editors coach struggling EICs across the country through mentoring and advising



San Ramon Valley Unified School District

• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Summer Camp Speech Instructor

  • Jul 2016 - Aug 2016

  • Lectured and coached middle school students in the Prepared Speaking and Interpretive events at Dougherty Valley High School's speech and debate summer camp • Coached students in honing verbal communication and presentational skills, political analysis, and research skills • Lectured and coached middle school students in the Prepared Speaking and Interpretive events at Dougherty Valley High School's speech and debate summer camp • Coached students in honing verbal communication and presentational skills, political analysis, and research skills



Harvard Medical School

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Intern

  • Jun 2015 - Aug 2015

  Studied the effects of gene sequence klf9, located in the brain's medial entorhinal cortex, on the regeneration of neurons, or neurogenesis, under an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. Studied the effects of gene sequence klf9, located in the brain's medial entorhinal cortex, on the regeneration of neurons, or neurogenesis, under an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.