Here is a summary of my CV. Please reach out via LinkedIn for more information.

Work Experience

  • Research Scientist, Google, 06/2024 – present
    Working on RAG, LLM Distillation, and alignment.

  • Applied Scientist II, Amazon Web Services, 06/2022 – 06/2024
    Led research on open-domain search and QA at AWS AI Labs.

  • Senior Associate, Data Scientist, Commonwealth Bank, 05/2017 – 06/2018
    Built the bank’s first machine learning model and big data pipeline to assess commercial lending risk, i.e. default rate of small business loans.

  • Senior Research Analyst, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 03/2015 – 04/2017
    Researched and applied a wide range of statistical tools such as the hidden factor model and time-series analysis to predict economic and financial indicators. Some projects I contributed to substantially have been published on NY Fed’s website: Nowcast, UIG and others relevant to Monetary Policy

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Southern California, 08/2018 – 06/2022
  • M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Southern California, 08/2018 – 12/2020
  • M.Sc. in Data Science, New York University, 09/2015 – 05/2018
  • B.A in Economics and Math, Hamilton College, 08/2010 – 12/2014