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Master of Science, Computing Science

University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

Bachelor of Science, Specialization in Computing Science

University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

• First Class Standing (GPA≥3.5)

Student Researcher

University of Alberta: Department of Medicine, Edmonton, Alberta

• Developing a PyTorch Temporal Fusion Transformer model to predict blood glucose levels for hospitalized type 2 diabetes patients, utilizing time series data from electronic medical record.
• Performing feature engineering to enhance model performance, including the extraction and creation of new features from raw time series data.
• Staying updated with the latest research and developments in time series forecasting and machine learning in healthcare, applying new techniques to improve the model's performance.

Street Team Member

Reverb Communications, Edmonton, Alberta

• Establish booths to educate the public on train-related safety ahead of the valley train line opening.
• Present and disseminate educational materials, proactively addressing inquiries to enhance public knowledge and adherence to train safety protocols.
• Engaged large audiences, reaching 80+ persons per hour regularly.

Frontend Developer

Zero RampUp, Remote

• Collaborated in a 7-member team to develop and deploy a business website from scratch, using JavaScript.
• Utilized Agile methodology with weekly stand-ups and sprint planning.
• Developed custom React Hooks to facilitate seamless retrieval of asynchronous data from a REST API and dynamically update website components.
• Engaged in pair programming with frontend developers and conducted code reviews to ensure code quality.

Tutor

Paper Edu, Remote

• Tutored K-12 students in computer science and mathematics, earned an average of 94% positive reviews.
• Provided code review for computer science students in Java, Python, C and JavaScript.

Intern

University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

• Collaborated on a 6-week research project to optimize the performance of a program that simulates the board game Hex, mainly through refactoring and rewriting existing code.
• Presented the findings to an audience of over 30 peers, faculty, and industry professionals. This presentation demonstrated improved program performance metrics and facilitated an interactive Q&A session.

ROS Developer

Autonomous Robot Driving Using Robot Operating System (ROS)

• DContributed to a team of 5 to develop a blogging/social network platform web app that is linked with other teams’ unique APIs and can aggregate activity from their web servers.
• Built the app's backend, integrated APIs, and wrote unit tests in Django.
• Tools, Python, NLTK, Pandas.

NLP Developer

NLP-Based Relation Extraction & Classification

• Developing and optimizing a Naive Bayes classifier for NLP, focused on extracting and categorizing semantic relationships from text, utilizing advanced data preprocessing and evaluation techniques including 3-fold cross-validation on the FewRel dataset.
• Tools, Python, PyTorch, NumPy.

Computer Vision Developer

Semantic Image Segmentation on MNISTDD-RGB

• Customized a U-Net model for image segmentation on the MNIST Double Digits RGB dataset and achieved 86% accuracy.
• Tools, Python, PyTorch, NumPy.

Machine Learning Developer

Linear Regression, Neural Networks and SVM to Predict Edmonton’s Weather

• Implemented linear regression, neural networks, support vector machine (SVM) algorithms to predict temperature and precipitation using Edmonton's daily weather dataset.
• Tools, Python, Matplotlib, NumPy, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, sodapy.

Django Backend Developer

Distributed Social Networking Web App

• Contributed to a team of 5 to develop a blogging/social network platform web app that is linked with other teams’ unique APIs and can aggregate activity from their web servers.
• Built the app's backend, integrated APIs, and wrote unit tests in Django.
• Tools, Python, Django, React.

Android Developer

Habit Tracking App

• Collaborated in a team to create a social media Android app using Java, XML and Cloud Firestore.
• Implemented a map to share a post’s location, with address search and selection using Geolocation API.
• Employed JUnit for unit testing to enhance code quality and prevent bugs.

Alzebdeh L, Lin C. Glucose Prediction and Automated Insulin Dosing in Hospitals. Endocrinology division, University of Alberta; Edmonton AB. April 2024.