University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI

B.S., Computer Engineering (expected Spring, 2019)

• Object Oriented Software Engineering (A)
• Software Engineering II (Currently Enrolled)
• Statistical Inference (Currently Enrolled)
• Advanced Linear Algebra (A)
• EE Directed Reading: Machine Learning (Currently Enrolled)
• Machine Learning (A)
• Special Topics in EE: Machine Learning (A+)
• Linear Convex Optimization (A)
• Data Structures and Algorithms (A)
• Digital Systems and Computer Design (A)
• Intro. to Computer and Network Security (A+)
• Signal and System Analysis (A+)

Open Power Quality

openpowerquality.org/

The goal of Open Power Quality (OPQ) is to provide open source hardware and software for low-cost distributed power quality data collection, analysis, and visualization.

• I am working on the OPQ Mauka component. Mauka is a distributed plugin-based middleware for OPQ that provides higher level analytical capabilities such as classification of PQ events, statistics, and more.
• So far I have devloped plugins to classify different types of frequency disturbances and transients using digital signal processing and machine learning techniques.

The Polarization of Information

github.com/ThePolarizationOfInformationOnTheWeb/ThePolarizationOfInformation

The primary focus of this project is to develop a system that can provide objective measurements of the polarity of information on the web at a topic specific level

• I have built web scrapers to find relevant news articles and queried Twitter’s APIs to collect and store data in a MySQL database.
• I have implemented novel machine algorithms to find clusters in the network of collected data.
• This project has been awarded funding by the NSF Center for Science of Information.
• I have successfully onboarded a team of 4 student researchers from 3 Universities UH Manoa, Notre Dame, and Howard, to work with me on this project.

Fellow, Hawaii Data Science Institute

datascience.hawaii.edu/

Funded for one year to participate in developing data science products and applications across a wide range of disciplines.

• I get to work closely with domain scientists and data science methodology experts in a cross-disciplinary setting to tackle issues relevant to HI-DSI's theme: Using Data to Positively Impact the Lives of People in Hawaii and Beyond.
• Personally, I have been designing a course on data wrangling with the pandas Python package. This course will be offered to students at UHM in the near future.

Math and Science Tutor, Online Learning Academy

manoa.hawaii.edu/ola/

Conducted tutoring sessions via the web for Physics and Math related courses up to the Sophmore college level.

• I truly enjoy sharing knowledge with others, education is a passion of mine. This work really contributed to my communication skills and made me a better student.

Intelligent Systems for Geosciences, University of Hawaii Hilo

Worked with domain scientists to develop sensors and discuss challenges experienced by scientists to propose new directions for research and collaboration.

• Built a dual spectrum imaging sensor using a Raspberry Pi device that periodically took infrared and visual light photos of the active volcanic fissure on Hawaii Island and stored the data on an Amazon web server.

Data Science and Interdisciplinary Research Teams, Purdue University

Learned fundamental principles of data science and worked on a project with students and researchers from across the globe.

• Learned how to use R to interact with SQL databases, and how to scrape and parse XML code.
• The Polarization of Information was select to be a team project for the week, so I was the team leader for a group of 5 students from Universities across the country and at levels ranging from Undergraduate to PhD candidates.
• I was responsible for organizing an agenda for the week and assigning tasks to make significant progress on the project to present at the end of the workshop.

Student Volunteer, 2018 IEEE Infocom Conference

infocom2018.ieee-infocom.org/

Worked as a student volunteer for the 2018 IEEE Conference held in Honolulu Hi.

• During off duty hours student volunteers had full registration to the event, I was able to attend interesting sessions held by world class researchers.

Summer Internship Mentor, UH Manoa College of Engineering

www-ee.eng.hawaii.edu/index.php

Mentored Hawaii’s High School Students during a 2017 Summer Internship program with UH Manoa.

• Taught students the essence of Data Analysis and guided them through a project over the 6 week course. The students created a Python class that stored a weighted directed graph with methods to determine specific graph features such as conductance, shortest path between 2 points, etc.

Water Safety Instructor, Pa'ani Wai Hawai'i

Provided private and group lessons for watersports including SUP, Kite Surfing, Wind Surfing, and Surfing.