Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D., Computer Science

University at Buffalo, SUNY

Advisor: A. Erdem Sariyüce

Adjunct Faculty

University at Buffalo, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences

• Teach graduate and undergraduate courses spanning deep learning, pattern recognition, and algorithm analysis.
• Develop curricula that pair theoretical foundations with hands-on lab work in PyTorch.
• Mentor graduate students on research projects and academic writing in machine learning.

Lead STEM Instructor Part-time

WhyMaker

• Lead STEM education initiatives in physics and emerging technology.
• Run hands-on workshops in partnership with the New York Power Authority.
• Designed a bootcamp introducing students to AI applications in drone technology.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

University at Buffalo

• Led recitation sessions and one-on-one mentoring for 200+ students in machine and deep learning courses.
• Held office hours covering backpropagation, CNNs, LLMs, regularization, and optimization.

Machine Learning Researcher

Zhejiang University · Hangzhou, China

• Built a deep-learning bone-age detection system using CNNs for orthopedic diagnostics.
• Deployed at the No. 1 People's Hospital, Hangzhou.

Software Engineer Intern

Nanjing Onappure Tech

• Maintained the water-quality database powering the Fresh Water, Rural China initiative; improved the report-alignment pipeline.
• Modernized the corporate website (HTML / CSS / JavaScript). Recognized as Best Intern of Summer 2017.

Multi-Human Pose Estimation

Bottom-up keypoint localization with graph-based grouping for 2D multi-person pose estimation.

Course Registration Website

Led the development of a PHP-based course-registration system; iterated on user feedback to ship a functional product on a tight schedule.