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

I'm also
🗺  a traveler,
🍪  a cook,
🍲  an avid eater,
📷  a photographer,
🎧  a podcast listener,
🚲  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 different 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 grad student 2022-now. Before, I did a full undergraduate 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 grad school work with Prof. Taro Watanabe on reframing; along with lab colleagues we also published our competition-winning contributions for Indigenous Languages educational resources. I published my undergraduate research with Prof. Graeme Hirst on text classification in a medical setting.