EDUCATION

THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

Bachelor of Applied Science, Major in Engineering Physics
Vancouver, BC
Sep 2018-June 2024

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

IBM

AI Engineer
Toronto, ON
Jan 2025-Present

• Develop pilots to validate and highlight the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed AI solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement and iterate on pilots, ensuring alignment with customer requirements and expectations while adhering to best practices and quality standards.

OUTLIER

Software Engineer for Artificial Intelligence Training Data
Vancouver, BC
Aug 2024-Present

• Applied RLHF to train large language models, focusing on Software Engineering and Mathematics expertise.
• Performed tasks such as generating training data, evaluating code performance and prompt engineering.

IBM

Data Scientist Intern, Client Engineering
Toronto, ON
MAY 2023-Aug 2023

• Leveraged IBM’s data and AI governance platforms to collaboratively develop PoC cloud solutions.
• Developed a Python-based LLM chatbot application using Retrieval-Augmented Generation for effective sales demonstration of generative AI capabilities to drive business value for financial services.
• Utilized PySpark SQL queries to identify and resolve data inconsistencies within the ETL data pipeline.
• Designed and implemented data transformation jobs within DataStage to ensure compatibility with BigQuery.

GBATTERIES

Data Developer Intern
Ottawa, ON
Jan 2022-Sep 2022

• Applied statistical analysis and machine learning algorithms to optimize battery charging process.
• Created a data visualization library for Jupyter using Pandas and Plotly, improving data interpretation capabilities.
• Developed parsers for data engineering pipelines, applying vectorization and signal processing techniques.

ECOATION

DevOps Engineer Intern
Vancouver, BC
Aug 2021-Dec 2021

• Automated NoSQL data transfer of a DynamoDB database in AWS, improving speed by 70%.
• Utilized GitHub Actions to automate code reviews, QA testing pipeline and weekly data quality validation.

Software Development Engineer in Test Intern
May 2021-Aug 2021

• Designed and executed comprehensive test suites for cloud-based ETL processes in AWS S3 and DynamoDB.
• Developed automation scripts using Boto3, AWS SDK for Python, to ensure scalability and performance of cloud services.

PROJECTS

Overvoice.AI

• Developed a LLM application leveraging GPT-4’s vision capabilities and text-to-speech technologies for automated generation of voice-overs for video contents. Developed in > React and Next.js.
• Optimized backend services and audio processing pipelines to ensure seamless integration with video content.
• Spearheaded client acquisition efforts by conducting targeted outreach campaigns, resulting in a 30% increase in user base.

AI Video Generation: Generative AI for synthetic video generation

• Developed and optimized state-of-the-art video generation models, including Variational Autoencoders and Diffusion Transformers, leveraging TPU infrastructure and JAX.
• Engineered and implemented data parallel training techniques using JAX, resulting in a 30x speedup in model training time and significantly improved scalability.

Golf Swing Detection and Analysis: Computer Vision / ML

• Developed an end-to-end Artificial Intelligence system for golf swing analysis, training custom machine learning models for swing pattern recognition using trajectory data from 1000+ golf swings.

Golf Swing Coach Multimodal RAG Chatbot

• Utilized CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training) to create a multi-modal RAG pipeline using LangChain, integrating OpenAI’s GPT model and NLP techniques for context-aware response generation.

MasterCard Financial Fraud Detection Hackathon, UBC

• Led a cross-functional team of 5 members, delegating tasks and managing project timeline.
• Conducted in-depth consultations with MasterCard representatives to understand client needs.
• Selected as finalist presenters to deliver a compelling proposal of graph neural network solutions.