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Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences B.S.

University of California, Berkeley, California

• Activities and Societies.
  • Vice President & Co-Founder of Berkeley's only EE/CS transfer-focused student organization, EECS Transfers at Berkeley
  • Member of UC Berkeley IEEE Branch
  • Member of Hispanic Engineers and Scientists Society (SHPE Chapter)
  • Member of Puente at Berkeley
  • Member of FinEd Association
  • Member of ISCO
• Relevant Coursework.
  • CS 61A - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
  • CS 61B - Data Structures
  • CS 160 - User Interface Design and Development
  • CS 186 - Introduction to Database Systems
  • EECS 16A - Designing Information Devices and Systems I
  • EECS 16B - Designing Information Devices and Systems II
  • DATA 8 - Foundations of Data Science
  • DATA 100 - Principles and Techniques of Data Science
  • ENGIN 125 - Ethics, Engineering, and Society
  • ENGIN 183A - Introduction to Technology Entrepreneurship & Innovation
  • CS 70 - Discrete Mathematics and Probability Theory*
  • CS 161 - Computer Security*
  • CS 168 - Introduction to Internet Architecture and Protocols*
  • CS 194-177 - Decentralized Finance and Blockchain Technologies*
  • CS 194-196 - Large Language Model Agents*
  • (Course Name)* = In Progress/Planned

Computer Science A.S., Mathematics A.S.T., Physics A.S.T.

Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, California

• Activities and Societies.
  • Newsletter Editor, Webmaster, & Permanent Member of Alpha Gamma Sigma Honor Society
  • Member of DVHackers Club
  • Member of Google Developer Student Club
  • Member of Physics Club
• Relevant Coursework.
  • Introduction to C++ Programming
  • Advanced C & C++ Programming
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Program Design and Data Structures
  • Python Programming
  • Programming with Java
  • Assembly Language Programming & Computer Organization
  • Calculus II
  • Calculus III
  • Linear Algebra
  • Differential Equations
  • Discrete Mathematics
  • Physics for Engineers and Scientists A
  • Physics for Engineers and Scientists B
  • Physics for Engineers and Scientists C

Data Strategy and Analytics Intern

American Express Company, Phoenix, Arizona

• Credit Fraud & Risk (CFR) Business Unit

SURE AI/ML Researcher

Amazon - UCLA, Los Angeles, California

• Advisor. Prof. Abeer Alwan
• Researched accent and dialect bias using NumPy, PyTorch, and HuggingFace with Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems, specifically on OpenAI Whisper and African American Vernacular English (AAVE). Primarily performed question-answering (QA) extraction using Hugging Face DeBERTa & Meta LLaMA-2 while fine-tuning Whisper with the Corpus of Regional African American Language (CORAAL) interview dataset. Improved QA performance by integrating LLaMA-2 compared to conventional QA models and saw 4% improvement with fine-tuning in word error rates (WER) and greater F1 score on AAVE.

Undergraduate Software Engineering Researcher

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• Advisors. Prof. Christian Kästner and Prof. Bogdan Vasilescu
• Developed Python NumPy/Pandas data-mining scripts to determine maintainers of the top 30,000 most popular GHTorrent GitHub repositories. Deduplicated ~5.6 million rows of contributor commit data by merging commit author aliases together and aggregated maintainers based on the definition of contributors responsible for top 80% of total project commits in a year. Identified ~584,000 distinct contributors, and ~110,000 maintainers to be interviewed to understand the motivations behind open-source software maintainers.

Undergraduate Robotics Development Researcher

University of California, Berkeley, California

• Advisor. Prof. Koushil Sreenath
• Independently developed a speech interface for a robotic guide dog to facilitate direct, vocal human-robot interaction utilizing Python with AWS Amazon Polly and Google Cloud Speech-to-Text APIs. Allowed for understanding vocal commands and a customizable wake word to activate the guide dog. Collaborated with the navigation team to ensure the interface could set navigation goals. Guide dog navigated based on the user's request by publishing predetermined coordinates to the guide dog's navigation target node. Allowed for the independence of guide dog by eliminating the need for a computer to manually send commands to the guide dog by integrating a speech interface into the existing infrastructure utilizing C++ and ROS. Presented research at multiple symposiums to a total of 300+ attendees and wrote a student paper that was cited by Google Research/DeepMind.

• Graduated with Highest Honors
• Milagros Ojermark Academic Transfer Scholarship
• Academic Honors

• AGS Member of the Month
• Academic Honors

• Academic Honors

• Google Top Photographer