Data and Analytics Intern, S-cubed: Strategic Sustainability Solutions. September 2024 - Present

I am interning at S-cubed: Strategic Sustainability Solutions, where I am analyzing financial and environmental to identify sustainable and profitable business practices. My work is done primarily in python using software packages such as pandas and matplotlib.

Graduate Research Assistant, University at Buffalo. June 2023 - Present

I have been working with the Computation and Equity (cUBe) Lab, which is directed by Dr. Kenneth Joseph. Currently, I am currently working on comparing various ways individuals reacted to Bernie Sanders dropping out of the 2020 Democratic Primary (and thus the race for president as a whole). Along with this, I am investigating the emergence, engagement with, and discussions of conspiracy theories online.

Previously, I developed tools for automatic stance detection using Large Language Models. A secondary goal of this project was to create a tool which takes in a large (several million) number of tweets and a small set of keywords and provides a set of similar tweets.

Various aspects of my work has appeared in the following conferences:

  • A paper published in the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS), September 2024. Runner Up, Best Student Lead Paper Award
  • A poster at the 10th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), July 2024.

Member Service Representative, Lockport Family YMCA. September 2023 - May 2024

As a member service representative, I ensured all YMCA members were greeted on entry to the facility and ensured their needs were met. Along with this, I answered phone calls and kept up to date with all relevant programs, events, and procedures to be able to answer any questions and register members for special events and programs.

Student Assistant, University at Buffalo. May 2023 - August 2023

I volunteered as a student assistant in the X-Lab, directed by Dr. Jinjun Xiong. During my time there I conduced a literature review on current research into quantifying interdisciplinarity on various levels of scope such as the author or departmental level. Along with this I helped with the implementation and debugging of code to create a numerical value representing the interdiciplinarity of authors partially based on the simpson’s diversity index.

Teaching Assistant, University of British Columbia. January 2020 - December 2020

I worked as a teaching assistant for CPSC 210: Software Construction for three semesters. The primary aspects of my job were holding office hours, running laboratories, and mentoring a group of roughly 30 students each semester while they developed a semester long personal project. Topics covered in the course included topics such as class inheritance, exception handling, testing, as well as design patterns such as the observer and iterator.