<aside> <img src="/icons/science_purple.svg" alt="/icons/science_purple.svg" width="40px" /> I’m an AI Research / Software Engineer based in Berkeley, California with 15+ years of AI Design, UX and Software Engineering experience. I’m passionate about finding solutions to some of humanity’s greatest challenges.
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<aside> <img src="/icons/bookmark_blue.svg" alt="/icons/bookmark_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Socials: Facebook Twitter Instagram LinkedIn
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<aside> <img src="/icons/briefcase_blue.svg" alt="/icons/briefcase_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Workplaces: Bongard.ai, Stanford University, National Research Council of Canada, Hylo, Castlight Health
Education: B.Sc. Computer Science with a focus in Computational Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, 2007
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<aside> <img src="/icons/attachment_green.svg" alt="/icons/attachment_green.svg" width="40px" /> Certificates Artificial Intelligence Professional Program, Stanford University, in progress User Experience Design, General Assembly, 2015
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<aside> <img src="/icons/document_yellow.svg" alt="/icons/document_yellow.svg" width="40px" /> Resume [=] View ATS Compliant Resume [UPDATED: June 2024]
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<aside> <img src="/icons/paste_orange.svg" alt="/icons/paste_orange.svg" width="40px" /> Current Research Topics
<aside> <img src="/icons/book_pink.svg" alt="/icons/book_pink.svg" width="40px" /> Articles
Speeding up Parallelized Algorithms
Mindapedia
Mini Course on Whole Brain Emulation (WBE)
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<aside> 🛠 **Projects
Bongard.ai Supported the research team at a deep tech startup focused on AI-assisted scientific reasoning.**
Boosted computational efficiency of an AI algorithm by leading parallelization for enhanced GPU processing, taking a key task processing time from 1 day to 1 minute. Our intern built on this work published a popular article on Towards Data Science here.
Built an internal low-latency (<4s) speech-to-speech translation tool using LangChain, AWS, Claude, Whisper and Deepgram TTS to increase team collaboration efficiency.
Developed comprehensive training materials to on-board new team members and brief the team on new tech products (AWS, LangChain, parallelized programming with CUDA).
Built a cognitive architecture for an internal research assistant app with retrieval from 1000s of pages of technical documentation. Team reported a 3x speed up in research-heavy tasks.
Mentored three junior team members, facilitating their professional growth and fostering a collaborative work environment.
Minda Myers Led a UX Consultancy, successfully launching over 20+ projects that included early-stage prototypes, comprehensive redesigns of established websites and apps, and strategic product launches. My expertise spans across initiating innovative concepts and refining user experience for mature products, ensuring both functionality and aesthetic appeal.
Hylo Enhanced engagement by 20x at Hylo through contributions to front-end features and user experience research initiatives. Hylo is an open-source platform designed to help organize communities of shared purpose.
Stanford University Center for Neurobiological Imaging Developed the front-end architecture in AngularJS for the Center for Neurobiology's MRI research sharing app, enhancing fMRI research capabilities across top US universities and leading to the creation of a shared cross-institutional repository of thousands of otherwise very expensive research scans.
Castlight Health Streamlined development across engineering teams for an app designed to help users navigate medical costs and understand their care by creating a library of reusable UI components for a 40-engineer team, speeding up project completion by up to 10x.
National Research Council of Canada** CISTI ****Enabled key scientific research and development in Canada in sectors such as aerospace, chemistry, biomedicine, and more by building and maintaining a Java-based CMS for Canada's National Science Library tasked with connecting information specialists with industry requests.
Redesigned web interfaces and product flows for 30+ small businesses, enhancing user experience and business functionality
<aside> <img src="/icons/checklist_blue.svg" alt="/icons/checklist_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Stuff I’ve Done
Explore my professional timeline featuring a variety of past and present projects, reflecting my evolving career and diverse experiences.
Short Courses:
<aside> <img src="/icons/verified_green.svg" alt="/icons/verified_green.svg" width="40px" /> **Hard Skills
Java, Python, C, Turbo Pascal
AWS, LangChain, RAG, Neo4j, SageMaker
AngularJS, React, HTML / CSS / Javascript
Invision, Sketch, UI / UX & Product Management
CUDA C, Kernels, Parallelized Code**
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<aside> <img src="/icons/trophy_yellow.svg" alt="/icons/trophy_yellow.svg" width="40px" /> Notable Achievements
Founded and acted as the first Chair for Dalhousie University’s Women in Technology Society (WiTS), which still exists today to support female-identifying students pursing technical degrees.
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<aside> <img src="/icons/color-palette_pink.svg" alt="/icons/color-palette_pink.svg" width="40px" /> Artwork
I paint as a hobby and post my artwork to Instagram. Although my art style is certainly inspired by talented visionary artists such as Alex Grey, all of my paintings rely solely on my own endogenous / naturally occurring brain chemistry :)
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<aside> <img src="/icons/photo-landscape_pink.svg" alt="/icons/photo-landscape_pink.svg" width="40px" /> AI Art
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<aside> <img src="/icons/geography_purple.svg" alt="/icons/geography_purple.svg" width="40px" /> Born in: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Places Lived: Halifax (Nova Scotia), Ottawa (Ontario), San Francisco Bay Area (California), Santa Cruz (California), Haiku (Maui, Hawaii), Victoria (British Columbia)
Citizenship: Canada-US dual citizen
Current location: Berkeley, SF Bay Area, California
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