Experience

Rice University Electrical and Computer Engineering

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Undergraduate Researcher

  • Jan 2020 - Present

  Developed interpretability theory for probablistic graphical models under presence of latent variables.Implemented efficient proximal gradient descent methods to fit high dimensional regression models.Built scalable data exploration tools using Python to provide statistical analyses of neuron activity time series.Examined graphical model methods for estimation of functional connectivity in neural visual cortices.

• Teaching Assistant

  • Aug 2022 - Dec 2022

  Teaching assistant for ELEC 478: Introduction to Machine Learning



Rice University Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics

• Houston, Texas, United States

• Rice Learning Assistant

  • Aug 2020 - May 2023

  Served as a teaching assistant for CAAM 210: Introduction to Engineering Computation. Prepared lecture content and hosted weekly discussions over content covered in the course. Graded and analyzed errors in submitted code. Hosted 1-1 office hours to target specific student needs. Served as a teaching assistant for CAAM 210: Introduction to Engineering Computation. Prepared lecture content and hosted weekly discussions over content covered in the course. Graded and analyzed errors in submitted code. Hosted 1-1 office hours to target specific student needs.



Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Development Engineer Intern

  • May 2022 - Aug 2022

  Developed internal tooling for on-call operations engineers to support the Key Management Service, a large scale distributed crytography provider and tier-0 AWS foundational service. Developed internal tooling for on-call operations engineers to support the Key Management Service, a large scale distributed crytography provider and tier-0 AWS foundational service.



Rice Computer Science Department

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Teaching Assistant

  • Jul 2021 - Dec 2021

  Teaching Assistant for COMP 382, an advanced algorithms course for undergraduate computer science students.

• Teaching Assistant

  • Dec 2020 - Jun 2021

  Teaching Assistant for COMP 182, an introductory discrete math and algorithms course for computer science students.



Rice University Office of Information Technology

• Houston, Texas, United States

• Technology Teaching Assistant

  • Aug 2020 - May 2021

  Offered in-person technical support to designated professors for a designated set of courses. In particular, monitor, adjust, and troubleshoot video and audio channels for streaming and recording of lectures. Provided an interface between professor and online students. Offered in-person technical support to designated professors for a designated set of courses. In particular, monitor, adjust, and troubleshoot video and audio channels for streaming and recording of lectures. Provided an interface between professor and online students.



Rice Computational And Applied Mathematics

• Houston, Texas, United States

• Undergraduate Researcher

  • Jan 2020 - Jan 2021

  Created models of physical systems using numerical techniques for partial and ordinary differential equations. Developed a method of rational spatial representations for the generation of geometric mappings. Researched stable methods for the nonlinear shallow water partial differential equations. Created models of physical systems using numerical techniques for partial and ordinary differential equations. Developed a method of rational spatial representations for the generation of geometric mappings. Researched stable methods for the nonlinear shallow water partial differential equations.



UNT College of Engineering

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Nanomaterials and Device Laboratory Research Assistant

  • Aug 2017 - May 2019

  Conducted research on energy storing materials under Dr. Wonbong Choi, at the PACCAR Technology Institute of the University of North Texas. Worked on the synthesis and physical characterization of two-dimensional tungsten disulfide. Created functional flexible super-capacitors using waste hemp carbon. Became familiar with the experimental processes of thermal chemical vapor deposition, plasma sputtering, atomic force microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and cyclic voltammetry. Conducted research on energy storing materials under Dr. Wonbong Choi, at the PACCAR Technology Institute of the University of North Texas. Worked on the synthesis and physical characterization of two-dimensional tungsten disulfide. Created functional flexible super-capacitors using waste hemp carbon. Became familiar with the experimental processes of thermal chemical vapor deposition, plasma sputtering, atomic force microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and cyclic voltammetry.