Experience

REACT Neuro

• United States
• Wellness and Fitness Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Component Analyst

  • Apr 2021 - Present

  Using statistics to detect Alzheimer's, tremors, and concussions from tests performed in VR. Using statistics to detect Alzheimer's, tremors, and concussions from tests performed in VR.



Boston University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Ph.D student

  • Aug 2015 - Jan 2021

  Predict personality from Facebook Statuses. Using models of increasing complexity I increased accuracy from previous standard of r = 0 to: 0.18 ->0.27 -> 0.44. Similar results on other traits such as impulsivity, IQ, and political preference. Models used were BoW, RoBERTa, and RoBERTa + multi-task learning.Also made contributions to our understanding of personality structure by deriving it from language models (unsupervised learning problem). The results are parsimoneous, robust to language (english vs spanish), and align with theories of personality development and evolutionary psychology.



Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

• Netherlands
• Non-profit Organization Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Junior Researcher

  • May 2018 - Sep 2018

  I updated their k-nearest neighbors flood prediction model to be a recurrent neural network. In addition to upstream flow data, I took it upon myself to incorporate a daily map of a) precipitation b) potential evapotranspiration and c) temperature from satellite data. I learned many things about communicating models to decision makers, dealing with missing data, and the benefits of looking for new streams of data. I updated their k-nearest neighbors flood prediction model to be a recurrent neural network. In addition to upstream flow data, I took it upon myself to incorporate a daily map of a) precipitation b) potential evapotranspiration and c) temperature from satellite data. I learned many things about communicating models to decision makers, dealing with missing data, and the benefits of looking for new streams of data.



Emtropy Labs

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Machine Learning Engineer

  • 2017 - 2018

  Built a system that could classify reviews of employees by topic (communication skills vs technical skills) and sentiment. This involved the collection of data, training models, and working with the web development team to get them operating in real time. Built a system that could classify reviews of employees by topic (communication skills vs technical skills) and sentiment. This involved the collection of data, training models, and working with the web development team to get them operating in real time.



Brigham Young University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Sep 2012 - Aug 2015

  Clean room work. I fabricated a device for in situ measurements of Li-ion battery cathodes. Clean room work. I fabricated a device for in situ measurements of Li-ion battery cathodes.