(When I move over to AWS Lambda)
About Me
I build cool things that I would use. I love to learn new things and doing the impossible. My current focus is in NLP.
Portfolio
My Projects
Fake News Detector
#10 Competitor for the Leader's Prize
Using BERT, XLNet...
Leader's Prize: Placed #10 for $1mil Fake News Detector Competition
Backen.tech
Curricula Generation with Geometric Deep Learning
CES2019 Young Innovator To Watch Award (Backen)
Virtual Self Driving Car
Using Deep Q-Learning in PyTorch
Virtual Self Driving Car: Deep Q-Learning w/ PyTorch
A-Eye
Vision for the Visually Impaired
A-Eye: Vision for the Visually Impaired
Canadian Learning Bond
~$2mil of Unused Government Funding, from the CLB
A Power BI Dashboard Visualizing CLB Data
CLB: $2mil of Unused Gov' Funding (Power BI Dashboard)
My Resume
My Experiences
My Experience
Competitor | Leaders Prize ($1Mil Prize)
2019 - Winter | Data Cup
I ended in #10 in the Leaders Prize. I built NLP models to identify fake news, using algorithms such as XLNet and BERT.
Data Scientist
2019 - Summer | CIBC
I build out ML models to predict likelihood of fraud at branches using algorithms such as XGBoost.
ML Engineer
2018 - Summer | Microsoft
I worked on the Azure team, building out forecasting algorithms to identify high-value customers early on.
My Education
Univeristy of Waterloo
2019 - 2024
I’m currently studying Software Engineering at uWaterloo. I host a 20 member ML group, running weekly ML sessions.
The Knowledge Society
2017 - 2019
A human accelerator in Toronto with the mission to ‘create exceptional people to solve the world’s biggest problems.’
Online Courses
2012 - Present
I've always learnt online. Starting with Codecademy (HTML), moving to Coursera (ML), Udacity (ML), and Udemy.
Things I'm Working On
Project: Web Scraping Graph Search
NLP Skills
Python / ML Skills
C
Foundational Skills
Relentless
Problem Solver
Contrarian
Teamworker
Let's work together!
Blog
My Articles
Towards Data Science
11 Mins ReadTraining Self Driving Cars w/ Reinforcement Learning
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Hackernoon
9 Mins ReadQuantum Computing Explained - It's Rocket Science
504 Claps
Medium
5 Mins ReadWe're still cavemen, just with bigger sticks
52 Claps
Medium
5 Mins ReadArtificial Intelligence: An Intuitive Introduction
86 Claps
Towards Data Science
7 Mins ReadI Created a Virtual Self Driving Car With Deep Q-Networks
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Medium
10 Mins ReadOh Snap Moments with Naval and Joe Rogan
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Towards Data Science
7 Mins ReadA Universal Knowledge Bank
326 Claps
Medium
4 Mins ReadA-Eye: Auditory Supplement for the Legally Blind
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More About Me
Quotes I Live By
I do what I want, I want what I love.
- Jerry Qu
"So why would I quit? The thought that I would stop when I'm dead. Just popped in my head. I said it, then forgot when I said."
- Eminem
"Winners and losers have the same goals. Systems are the processes that lead to results."
- James Clear | Atomic Habits
Results = (Hard Work * Time) ^ Strategy
- I just gotta put in the time
Be Kind.
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