About
I'm a Data Engineer working at Giant Oak, an ML start-up based in Arlington, VA. At Giant Oak, I am the project lead for GOST Crawl, a proprietary search engine which uses NLP to index derogatory web information. I am also the lead of the Science team.
I am always on the lookout for collaborators on research projects. Reach out if you are interested in the fields of model compression (especially for LLMs), active learning, model and dataset debiasing, QA, article summarization, TDA, or anything potentially related.
Research
Generate, Transduct, Adapt: Iterative Transduction with VLMs
Preprint, December 2024 [Paper]
Efficient Transformer Knowledge Distillation: A Performance Review
EMNLP 2023 [Paper]
ALOUD: Active Learning of Unbiased Datasets
Preprint, September 2023 [Paper]
Experience
Senior Data Engineer
Saifr (Fidelity Labs)
Boston, MA
January 2024 - current
Data Engineer
Giant Oak Inc.
Arlington, VA
June 2020 - January 2024
Research Assistant, SVCL
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, CA
November 2020 - current
Research Assistant, Wearables Lab
Rice University
Houston, TX
April 2018 - May 2019
Education
Ph.D. Computer Science
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Amherst, MA
August 2024 - current
M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
September 2019 - June 2021
B.S. Computer Science
Rice University
Houston, TX
August 2015 - May 2019
B.S. Electrical Engineering
Rice University
Houston, TX
August 2015 - May 2019
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