Experience
Been mostly having fun at the intersection of data, compute, and systems!
USAA | Data Analyst Intern
May 2025 - August 2025- Forecasted loan charge-offs via time series Markov model (18 yrs)
- Achieved 39-point reduction in MAPE with ARMA modeling on log residuals
- Accelerated data processing pipeline by 7x with Polars and multiprocessing
Morgridge Institute for Research | Research Intern
February 2024 - October 2024- Submitted paper to BMC Bioinformatics in July 2025!
- Combined biomedical literature-based discovery with LLM hypothesis evaluation (feel free to play with it here)
- Fine-tuned custom LLM for biomedical text analysis with synthetic data (7,100+ downloads on Huggingface!)
- Improved accuracy of RAG relevance filter from 70% to 90% with NEFTune and RsLoRA
- Deployed custom LLM on HPC with Nvidia Container Toolkit + Docker & Paramiko
- Sped up internal analysis pipeline by 15x with batching + VLLM