Experience
June 2025 - Present
AI/ML Research Assistant
San Francisco State University
- Built an end-to-end course equivalency platform with a multi-tool agent that resolves student transferability and availability queries, backed by transcript ingestion and FERPA-compliant local PII redaction.
- Fine-tuned BGE-small via triplet loss on 9,192 course pairs and mined hard negatives, reaching 98% F1 on a held-out equivalency set, a 5.3% gain over vanilla BGE-small.
- Quantized BGE-small via CTranslate2, cutting model size 74% and accelerating inference 2.81x with under 0.5 F1 drop on the equivalency eval set.
- Deployed a 5-stage ML pipeline on AWS Lambda as independently scaled microservices, achieving 489ms p95 end-to-end latency across the full equivalency flow.
January 2024 - May 2024
Machine Learning Engineer Intern
Bluepixel Technologies
- Adapted Llama 2 7B on clinical records using PEFT/LoRA, reducing perplexity by 27% and improving domain-specific terminology alignment.
- Developed a clinical record extraction pipeline with LangChain and InfluxDB, converting unstructured clinical text into structured JSON with 99%+ parse success.
- Built a stateful conversational layer over Llama 2 7B with session-scoped LangChain memory, enforcing health-domain scope and clinician redirection for serious queries.