👨‍💻 I'm a computer scientist specialized in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning

I'm also
🗺  a traveler,
🍪  a cook,
🍲  an avid eater,
📷  a photographer,
🎧  a podcast listener,
💉  an unexpected translator, science-based public health information spreader & information-access-in-different-languages advocate,
🚲  a cyclist,
⚽  a soccer player,
👅  a polyglot 🇲🇽 🇨🇦 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇯🇵 🔜 🧏,
🎪  an event organizer,
👂  and a good listener

🐍  Python is what I mostly code in, but I have experience with shell scripting, MATLAB, LaTeX and some JavaScript

🖥  For projects I've used LLM APIs, HuggingFace, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, pandas, XGBoost and Jupyter/IPython

👉  You can read more about my background on LinkedIn

🕐  TL;DR: Before grad school, I was a Natural Language and Data Scientist at Awake Labs, a Speech Scientist at Nuance, a Research Assistant in TAGlab in the Computer Science department at the University of Toronto, and a Software Development intern at Psiphon

👨‍🎓  NAIST NLP master's student 2022-2024. Before, I did a full degree in computer science at the University of Toronto, as well as a psychology major and a linguistics minor. I've published some of my projects with Prof. Graeme Hirst on text classification in a medical setting, as well as with Prof. Taro Watanabe and colleagues on reframing and on Indigenous Languages educational resources.