B.S.E. in Operations Research and Financial Engineering,
Princeton University, NJ, September 2013 - June 2017
Graduated Summa Cum Laude
Earned a certificate in Applications of Computing
Thesis: ”Monotonically Constrained Polynomial Regression: An Application of Sum of Squares Techniques and Semidefinite Programming
Winner of Procter & Gamble Prize for Outstanding Senior Thesis
Advisers: Amir Ali Ahmadi & Georgina Hall
Experience
Software Development Engineer
Microsoft, Redmond, WA, July 2017 - current
Working on short to mid-term engagements with commercial partners, independent software vendors and NGOs on exploring cutting edge AI technologies and innovative ML applications.
Built together with teams from Amazon, Google and the World Bank Famine Prevention program an explainable and interpretable ML pipeline for crisis prediction; such that financial aid institution can preemptively allocate funds to communities at risk. Project under executive sponsorship of Microsoft Philanthropies.
Prototyped Reinforcement Learning frameworks for industrial scenarios, in partnership with a commercial airline and a Formula 1 race team.
Software Development Intern
Microsoft, Redmond, WA, May 2016 - August 2016
Analyzed the CPU and memory performance of BitFunnel, Bing's recently open-sourced, document index.
Identified inefficiencies in Bing's matching algorithm and proposed an optimization which was successfully implemented. Currently the end-to-end computation cost per search query have been reduced by 15%.
Co-authored the research paper discussing BitFunnel's performance which was be presented at the SIGIR 2017 and won Best Paper Award.
Software Engineering Intern
Empirasign Strategies LLC, New York, NY}, June 2015 - August 2015
Developed an API for programmatic ad buying, thus providing a cheaper alternative to Google AdWords.
Converted securities data from unstructured emails and spreadsheets in tabular form.
Worked on the automated email feature and enhanced the customization capabilities of email alerts.
Learning Consultant
The McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, Princeton, NJ, March 2016 - June 2017
Held individual learning consultations with students, focusing on improving study habits, time management and developing master learners.
Coordinated and attended workshops, seminars and open houses for the McGraw Center.
Academic Distinctions
"Best Paper Award" - SIGIR Conference, ACM , Japan, August 2017
Goodwin, Bob, et al. "BitFunnel: Revisiting Signatures for Search." Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2017, pp. 605-614; https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3077136.3080789