Experience

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  Combat Robotics at Cornell

  • United States
  • Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Lead Firmware Trainer

    • Aug 2023 - Present

    • Improved upon a six-week training curriculum to teach incoming members engineering design principles.

  • Firmware Subteam Member

    • Oct 2021 - Present

    August 2022 - May 2023• Collaborated with an electrical engineer and 7 developers to design and implement facial recognition and road tracking algorithms for an autonomous combat robot using Python, Raspberry Pi, and Pi camera.• Utilized PyTorch and OpenCV to train a CNN-powered model to distinguish between two faces and four signs.• Combined Pi camera and joystick input to train a TensorFlow model to track and follow a winding road.October 2021 - May 2022• Collaborated with 2 electrical engineers and 5 developers to design and implement tracking andmovement algorithms for an autonomous combat robot using C++, Arduino, and time-of-flight sensor.• Mapped detection points to target boxes, differentiated between stationary and moving targets within a field of vision, and charted spline movement paths from current position to target.• Created a visualization using Python (tkinter GUI) to test and verify algorithm functionality.

  • Social Committe Member

    • Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

    • Brainstorm and organize team events to foster closer relationships among teammates.

  • LinkedIn Media Manager

    • Mar 2022 - May 2022

    • Write engaging LinkedIn posts about the team's progress and accomplishments.

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  Freelance

  • Ithaca, New York, United States

  • Python Tutor

    • Jul 2023 - Present
    • Ithaca, New York, United States

    • Independently developed a curriculum to teach a 10- and 12-year-old introductory Python.

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  Cornell University

  • Ithaca, New York, United States

  • Residential Advisor

    • Aug 2022 - Present
    • Ithaca, New York, United States

    • Collaborated with fellow RAs to support residents in their mental, social, and academic wellbeing.• Served bi-weekly emergency on call rotations for 250+ residents.

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  Verizon

  • Global Technology and Network Intern

    • Jan 2024 - Jan 2024

    • Collaborated with a team of 5 interns to implement retrieval-augmented generation on a local LLM, GPT4All.• Curated 60 open-source Verizon 5G help articles, contributing to the development of an internal help document generator for users to access validated, step-by-step instructions on resolving issues specific to Verizon products.

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  Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science

  • Ithaca, New York, United States

  • Undergraduate Researcher

    • Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
    • Ithaca, New York, United States

    • Utilized PyTorch to train a natural language processing model on an information extraction task.• Created guidelines to help fellow researchers accurately and precisely annotate documents for model input.• Developed a pre-processing algorithm to convert JSON lines from one dataset (MUC) to another (RAMS).

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  Kode With Klossy

  • Washington DC-Baltimore Area

  • Instructor Assistant

    • Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
    • Washington DC-Baltimore Area

    • Collaborated with 3 instructors to teach a two-week web development curriculum to girls and ages 13 through 18.• Assisted scholars in developing websites about mental health, abortion rights, fast fashion, and financial literacy.• Ensured scholar understanding of and proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript by responding to scholarfeedback, facilitating remediation lessons, and debugging scholar code as necessary.• Fostered an inclusive environment by leading team-building activities and discussions about the culture of technology.

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  FUFFID

  • Cayambe, Pichincha, Ecuador

  • English Language Teacher

    • Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
    • Cayambe, Pichincha, Ecuador

    • Individually developed and taught a six-week English language curriculum to 20+ students across two classes.• Created grammar, vocabulary, and cultural lessons; practice quizzes; and educational games.

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  Mac's Cafe & Terrace Restaurant

  • Ithaca, New York, United States

  • Student Employee

    • Aug 2021 - May 2022
    • Ithaca, New York, United States

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  Chipotle Mexican Grill

  • East Greenwich, Rhode Island, United States

  • Crew Member

    • Mar 2021 - Aug 2021
    • East Greenwich, Rhode Island, United States

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  Skills for Rhode Island's Future

  • Rhode Island, United States

  • Research And Development Intern

    • Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
    • Rhode Island, United States

    • Remotely collaborated with 21 peers to develop virtual outreach strategies for a local nonprofit, The Empowerment Factory.• Designed app mockup using Wix.com to foster social-emotional learning in elementary-aged children.