WORLD 2
Experience
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● Active Sep 2026 – Now
Software Engineering Intern
Coupang
- Building a computer vision and LLM pipeline against Coupang's production catalog that turns raw product images and seller metadata into structured listings, attributes, SEO keywords and quality scores.
Rewards Computer vision · LLMs · Production data
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● Active Sep 2026 – Now
Machine Learning Researcher
Climformatics
- Building a meteorological forecasting model from GHI, DNI, DHI, temperature and wind-speed data that predicts at hourly resolution up to 14 days out, verified against ground-truth solar data.
Rewards Forecasting · Time series · Solar data
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★ Complete May 2025 – Aug 2026
Software Engineering Intern
IPMD Inc. · ASTAI Group
- Built logistic-regression models with output thresholds in Keras/TensorFlow that beat S&P benchmarks by 13% over 10 years in backtests.
- Backtested Elliott Wave, candlestick and support/resistance strategies on 10 years of daily S&P 500 OHLCV data, reaching a 20% cumulative return.
- Built an automated Yahoo Finance news-ingestion pipeline with Beautiful Soup to feed sentiment into multimodal models.
Rewards TensorFlow · Keras · Backtesting · NLP
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★ Complete Jun 2025 – Sep 2025
Lab Assistant, Dr. Christoph Eick
Data Analysis & Intelligent Systems Lab · University of Houston
- Mapped NOAA underwater elevation data to geofenced deep-sea images to build training sets.
- Helped develop a CNN that classifies, labels and extracts front-facing horizon images from large deep-sea datasets into model-ready image databases.
Rewards Computer vision · CNNs · Geospatial data
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★ Complete Apr 2025 – Sep 2025
Research Assistant, Dr. Melissa Baldo
College of Business · Lamar University
- Researched short-sea freight shipping as a sustainable alternative to US trucking under the Jones Act.
- Wrote original case studies comparing GHG and PM emissions against rail and trucking for real Texas freight routes; built all tables and figures for a paper submission.
Rewards Research writing · Emissions analysis
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★ Complete May 2022 – Jul 2026
Program Coordinator, Board Member & Instructor
Appropriate Development Technology (ADTech) Inc.
- Led a 6-week STEM summer camp across 8 subjects for 60+ underserved students internationally.
- Taught three 10-week Python courses to 50+ students across 3 continents.
Rewards Leadership · Teaching
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★ Complete Jun 2024 – Feb 2025
Code Instructor
Beaumont Code Wiz
- Taught 20+ K–12 students in weekly programming classes; certified in Python, Java and Scratch.
Rewards Python · Java · Scratch