About

I’m a recent graduate of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a B.S. in Information Sciences + Data Science and minor in Computer Science. Enthusiastic about all things Data Engineering, Analytics, Health Informatics, and Data Visualization!

Previously, I’ve been part of the UIUC Center for Health Informatics AI for Infodemic Management research team at the School of Information Sciences:

To research LLMs in Infodemic management:

conducted video data collection, data analysis, and implemented visualization techniques in Python

research of on-screen text extraction methodologies, improvement of audio transcription/tokenization

gained exposure to OpenAI Whisper and GPT, Microsoft Azure, prompt engineering, as well as Streamlit's web application framework

Coursework and Skills

Data Science:

Database Concepts and Applications – Fundamental SQL and SQLite, Relational Databases, Entity-Relationship modeling
Project – Movie Ratings Database

Concepts of Machine Learning & Modeling and Learning in DS –

Python ML fundamentals, Supervised and Unsupervised Learning, Classification and Regression

Linear/Logistic Regression, Decision Tree, Random Forest, KNN, SVM, etc.

Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning, Neural Networks
Project – Analyzing Global Temperature Trends

Data Visualization – Interactive Visualization in Python

IPyWidgets, Vega-Altair

GeoPandas for Geospatial data and maps

Matplotlib, Seaborn
Project – Analyzing Urbana Arrests Data Project – Analyzing California Transportation Infrastructure

Computer Science:

Data Structures: C++ (lists, stacks, queues, trees) and elementary analysis of algorithms

Discrete mathematical structures

Text Information Systems:

Natural Language Processing, Web Search, Recommender Systems, LLMs

Text Mining and Retrieval

NLTK, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hadoop framework
Project – UIUC Yelp Restaurant Reviews Analysis

Database Systems:

MySQL, Query Execution and Optimization, Storage and Indexing

MongoDB, Document-oriented database systems

Neo4j, Graph database systems
Project – UIUC Class of the Day Game

Information Science:

Human-Computer Interaction: Prototyping and app design with Figma, Balsamiq, Axure RP, Adobe XD

Risk and Cybersecurity: Cybersecurity and Cyber Risk fundamentals, security frameworks, and government regulations

Attack Vectors and Attack Surfaces

Cyber Kill Chain

Data breaches

Network Security

Research Design for IS: Research methods, writing, and design fundamentals