Experience

Mantium

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior NLP Engineer

  • Aug 2021 - Present

  Read about our story here: https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/09/mantium-raises-12-75m-in-seed-funding-launches-cloud-based-ai-platform/ Read about our story here: https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/09/mantium-raises-12-75m-in-seed-funding-launches-cloud-based-ai-platform/



Ask AI

• Canada
• Technology, Information and Internet

• Advisory Committee and Host of Team Check-Ins

  • Jul 2021 - Present



skritswap

• Canada
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder & CTO

  • 2020 - Dec 2021



On Deck

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Founder Fellowship

  • Apr 2021 - Aug 2021

  On Deck is where the world's top talent comes to connect. The On Deck Founder Fellowship (ODF) brings together an incredible group of founders who are in the early stages of building their next startup. They combine the power of community, world-class speakers, and customized support to help you build the next unicorn. On Deck is where the world's top talent comes to connect. The On Deck Founder Fellowship (ODF) brings together an incredible group of founders who are in the early stages of building their next startup. They combine the power of community, world-class speakers, and customized support to help you build the next unicorn.



Microsoft Research & Mila

• Grant Recipient

  • May 2020 - Jun 2021

  Mitigating Gender Pronoun Bias in TextCarolyne Pelletier (Mila), Sandeep Subramanian (Mila), Samira Shabanian (MSR Montreal), Yoshua Bengio (Mila)This project investigates ways in which Gender Pronoun Bias (a type of implicit bias) can be mitigated when deploying natural language processing systems. This is important because, much like how humans incorporate their own biases into the text they write, language understanding models like BERT have been shown to propagate these types of biases that exist in their training data to downstream tasks. First, we propose a modification to BERT’s pre-training task in order to mitigate for Gender Pronoun Bias. Second, we propose to fine-tune on an augmented dataset that aims to reduce Gender Pronoun Bias in tasks like Masked Language Modeling. Finally, we explore the possibility of training a model to identify and correct for Gender Pronoun Bias at the sentence level by using a pre-trained language understanding model like BERT and fine-tuning it on the Gender Pronoun Bias dataset which is being collected at Mila with BiaslyAI.com. This could be used as an end-user application or used to correct for Gender Pronoun Bias in training data.



Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Sep 2018 - Jan 2020

  As part of professor Yoshua Bengio's Humanitarian AI group, our subgroup at BiaslyAI investigated ways in which bias can be mitigated when deploying natural language processing systems. As part of professor Yoshua Bengio's Humanitarian AI group, our subgroup at BiaslyAI investigated ways in which bias can be mitigated when deploying natural language processing systems.



AI4Good Lab

• Canada
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lab Participant

  • May 2018 - Jun 2018

  The AI Summer Lab is a collaborative program offered by the OSMO Foundation, The Reasoning and Learning Lab at McGill University, the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA) and DeepMind. This is a six-week program to learn technical concepts in machine learning, in addition to prototype development and design skills. The AI Summer Lab is a collaborative program offered by the OSMO Foundation, The Reasoning and Learning Lab at McGill University, the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA) and DeepMind. This is a six-week program to learn technical concepts in machine learning, in addition to prototype development and design skills.



Klipfolio

• Canada
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Developer

  • Jan 2018 - Apr 2018

  Web development in React. Implemented new end-to-end features working with UX, PM, and QA teams following agile development methodologies. Web development in React. Implemented new end-to-end features working with UX, PM, and QA teams following agile development methodologies.



McKinsey & Company

• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Developer

  • Sep 2017 - Dec 2017

  Worked with a Senior Product Manager and tech team to assess the long term viability of an internal app affected by a company-wide e-mail migration Worked with a Senior Product Manager and tech team to assess the long term viability of an internal app affected by a company-wide e-mail migration



Carleton University

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Teaching Assistant

  • Sep 2017 - Dec 2017

  Teaching assistant for COMP 2402 - Abstract Data Types and Algorithms with professor Patrick Morin Teaching assistant for COMP 2402 - Abstract Data Types and Algorithms with professor Patrick Morin



Klipfolio

• Canada
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Developer

  • May 2017 - Aug 2017

  Web development with back-end services in Grails/Java and front-end in JavaScript/jQuery. Implemented new end-to-end features working with UX, PM, and QA teams following agile development methodologies. Web development with back-end services in Grails/Java and front-end in JavaScript/jQuery. Implemented new end-to-end features working with UX, PM, and QA teams following agile development methodologies.



Sparkup Inc.

• Canada
• IT Services and IT Consulting

• Founding Team Member

  • May 2013 - Jun 2015

  Online marketplace for intellectual property. Exited through a merger with the Big Innovation Centre in London, UK, to form Intellectual Property Exchange (IPX), now located in London. Online marketplace for intellectual property. Exited through a merger with the Big Innovation Centre in London, UK, to form Intellectual Property Exchange (IPX), now located in London.