David Kartchner

Researcher + Entrepreneur (ML + Biomedicine)

I research how to enable natural language processing (NLP) on new and dynamic problems by developing generative means of structuring data via large language models (LLMs) and knowledge graphs (KGs). I use these technologies to structure clinical data and biomedical research , enabling clinicians to customizably curate structured data from any unstructured text.
I have collaborated with researchers, developers, and clinicians while working at Enveda Biosciences, Facebook, GSK, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, and Intermountain Healthcare.

Education

2018 - 2023
Ph.D. in Computational Science & Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Advisor: Cassie Mitchell, Co-advisor: None
Thesis: Extracting and Structuring Information for Clinical Meta-Analysis and Drug Repurposing
Committee: Cassie Mitchell, Chao Zhang, Duen Horng "Polo" Chau, Jon Duke, Daniel Domingo-Fernández
2017 - 2018
M.S. in Mathematics
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Thesis: ActuarAI: Machine Learning Models for Patient Disease Forecasting and Representation
Committee: Jeffrey Humpherys, Tyler Jarvis, David Wingate
GPA: 4.00/4.00
Thesis
2010 - 2016
B.S. in Applied & Computational Mathematics
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Thesis: Walking the Walk: An Exploratory Analysis in Biometric Gait Recognition
Magna Cum Laude, University Honors Overall GPA: 3.96/4.00 Applied and Computational Mathematics Emphasis (ACME)
Thesis

Industry Experience

March 2024 - Present
Truveta, Bellevue, WA
Machine Learning Researcher, Clinical LLMs
Mentor: Mehraveh Salehi, Saman Zarandioon
Training agent-based LLM systems to perform end-to-end medical research with real-world data. Designed and implemented LLM evaluation suite automatically evaluate the quality of LLM outputs. Designed multi-agent LLM systems to automatically identify and correct erroneous training data. Current projects are focused on automatically evaluating LLM performance on medical tasks and using LLMs to systematically probe for areas of model weakness
Sept 2022 - Present
Glassbox Health, Atlanta, GA
Co-Founder, CTO
Built an LLM-based assistant to provide personalized navigation of medical bills and healthcare costs. Our service reduced medical bills by 67% on average across all uses.
Summer 2022
Enveda Biosciences, Boulder, CO
Data Science Intern, Knowledge Graph
Mentor: Daniel Domingo-Fernandez, David Healey, Joe Davison
Performed systematic survey + implementation fo 20+ entity linking NLP models to improve accuracy evidence-based compound prioritization
Summer 2021
Facebook, Menlo Park, CA
Applied Research Science Intern, Enterprise Product Applied Research
Mentor: Minhazul Islam Sk
Designed and trained transformer-based semantic search document retrieval and ranking system to improve efficiency of customer support agents
Summer 2020
GlaxoSmithKline, Philadelphia, PA
Research Intern, AI/ML Engineering
Mentor: Anne Cocos
Built model jointly embed free-text entity mentions with structured entity knowledge graph for 30M research articles/abstracts and KG with 5M edges. Developed end-to-end pipeline to download, preprocess, and identify high-quality entity links for biomedical entities in 30M research articles. Engineered parallel model training workflow on distributed supercomputing cluster utilizing 10,000+ CPU cores and dozens of GPUs.
Nov 2018 - Aug 2019
Padsplit, Atlanta, GA
Data Science Consultant, Data Research
Created credit scoring model and interactive job density visualizations to move into new domestic markets.
Summer 2018
Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Salt Lake City, UT
Data Science Intern, Machine Learning
Mentor: Andrew Blevins
Developed and deployed recommender system to infer biological mechanism of action and repurposing potential of 1M+ compounds
May 2016 - May 2018
Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT
Data Science Intern, Population Health Analytics
Mentor: Andy Merrill
Built and deployed models to forecast individual patient risk of chronic disease onset and long-term complex care from EHR and environmental data. Published in IEEE ICHI (2017) and AJRCCM (2018).
Summer 2015
Capital One, McLean, VA
Business Analyst Intern,
Analyzed public loan data to predict consumer default on personal loans.

Academic Research Experience

Jan 2024 - March 2024
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratory for Pathology Dynamics
Mentor: Cassie Mitchell
Trained LLMs to index, extract, and synthesize clinical knowledge from medical literature
Aug 2019 Dec 2023
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Graduate Research Assistant, Laboratory for Pathology Dynamics
Advisor: Cassie Mitchell
Designed NLP-based machine learning systems for automated discovery of high-value biological hypotheses via knowledge graph construction and inference. Further developed systems for identifying, extracting, and synthesizing relevant data from biomedical literature to quantatitively validate medical hypotheses via AI-driven meta analysis. Publications featured in NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP, and SIGIR.
Aug 2018 - May 2019
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Graduate Research Assistant, School of Computational Science and Engineering
Mentor: Jimeng Sun
Conducted research in predicting chronic disease outcomes from electronic health records (EHR) and free-text clinical notes.
Jan 2017 - Aug 2018 Jan. 2013
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Mathematics
Advisor: Jeffrey Humpherys
Developed models to predict individual onset of chronic conditions from patient electronic health records (EHR). Published in IEEE ICHI (2017, 2018).
Jun 2014 - Apr 2018
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Teaching Assistant & Lab Instructor, Department of Mathematics
Mentor: Tyler Jarvis (primary), Brigham Frandsen, David Sims, Joseph Price, Stephen Humpheries
Taught year-long, weekly programming lab on data analysis and intensive summer bootcamp on Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). Developed machine learning curriculum and automated grading software. Additionally taught recitations for abstrat algebra, econometrics, statistics, and microeconomics.

Honors and Awards

2018
National Science Foundation GRFP Honorable Mention
Learning to Prescribe Optimal Disease Treatment via Machine Learning
2015
Dean and Helen Robinson Scholarship
Scholarship given to outstanding undergraduates in mathematics for Putnam Mathematics competition
2016
BYU University Honors
Awarded to undergraduates who write a thesis complete requirements in leadership, service, and cross-disciplinary scholarship.
2010-2016
BYU Heritage Scholarship
Full-tuition merit based scholarship for incoming students
2011
Amberly Rupp "Circle of Honor" Essay Contest Award
1st-place in university-wide essay contest
2010
National Merit Scholarship
Merit-based scholarship awarded top <1% of incoming university students

Publications

Selected Publications

A Comprehensive Evaluation of Biomedical Entity Linking Models
David Kartchner, Jennifer Deng, Shubham Lohiya, Tejasri Kopparthi, Prasanth Bathala, Daniel Domingo-Fernández, Cassie Mitchell
The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Singapore, 2023.
Project PDF BibTeX
Literature-Based Discovery to Elucidate the Biological Links between Resistant Hypertension and COVID-19
David Kartchner, Kevin McCoy, Janhvi Dubey, Dongyu Zhang, Kevin Zheng, Rushda Umrani, James Kim, Cassie Mitchell
Biology (Biology). 2023.
Project PDF BibTeX
Zero-Shot Information Extraction for Clinical Meta-Analysis using Large Language Models
David Kartchner, Irfan Al-Hussaini, Selvi Ramalingam, Olivia Kronick, Cassie Mitchell
22nd Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNLP). Toronto, Canada, 2023.
Project PDF BibTeX
BioSift: A Dataset for Filtering Biomedical Abstracts for Drug Repurposing and Clinical Meta-Analysis
David Kartchner, Irfan Al-Hussaini, Haydn Turner, Jennifer Deng, Shubham Lohiya, Prasanth Bathala, Cassie Mitchell
46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR). Taipei, Taiwan, 2023.
Project BibTeX
Rule-Enhanced Active Learning for Semi-Automated Weak Supervision
David Kartchner, Davi Nakajima An, Wendi Ren, Chao Zhang, Cassie Mitchell
AI (AI). Online, 2022.
Project PDF BibTeX
Machine Learning Methods for Diease Prediction with Claims Data
Tanner Christensen, Abraham Frandsen, Seth Glazier, Jeff Humpherys, David Kartchner
IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI). New York City, NY, USA, 2018.
Project PDF BibTeX DOI
Short-Term Elevation of Fine Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Acute Lower Respiratory Infection
Benjamin D. Horne, Elizabeth A. Joy, Michelle G. Hofmann, Per H. Gesteland, John B. Cannon, Jacob S. Lefler, Denitza P. Blagev, E. Kent Korgenski, Natalie Torosyan, Grant I. Hansen, David Kartchner, C. Arden Pope III
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (AJRCCM). New York, NY, USA, 2018.
Project PDF BibTeX DOI

All Publications

Journal

J4
Literature-Based Discovery to Elucidate the Biological Links between Resistant Hypertension and COVID-19
David Kartchner, Kevin McCoy, Janhvi Dubey, Dongyu Zhang, Kevin Zheng, Rushda Umrani, James Kim, Cassie Mitchell
Biology (Biology). 2023.
Project PDF BibTeX
J3
Rule-Enhanced Active Learning for Semi-Automated Weak Supervision
David Kartchner, Davi Nakajima An, Wendi Ren, Chao Zhang, Cassie Mitchell
AI (AI). Online, 2022.
Project PDF BibTeX
J2
Biomedical Text Link Prediction for Drug Discovery: A Case Study with COVID-19
Kevin McCoy, Sateesh Gudapati, Lawrence He, Elaina Horlander, David Kartchner, Soham Kulkarni, Nidhi Mehra, Jayant Prakash, Helena Thenot, Sri Vivek Vanga, Abigail Wagner, Brandon White, Cassie Mitchell
Pharnaceutics (Pharm). Online, 2021.
Project PDF BibTeX DOI
J1
Short-Term Elevation of Fine Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Acute Lower Respiratory Infection
Benjamin D. Horne, Elizabeth A. Joy, Michelle G. Hofmann, Per H. Gesteland, John B. Cannon, Jacob S. Lefler, Denitza P. Blagev, E. Kent Korgenski, Natalie Torosyan, Grant I. Hansen, David Kartchner, C. Arden Pope III
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (AJRCCM). New York, NY, USA, 2018.
Project PDF BibTeX DOI

Conference

C6
A Comprehensive Evaluation of Biomedical Entity Linking Models
David Kartchner, Jennifer Deng, Shubham Lohiya, Tejasri Kopparthi, Prasanth Bathala, Daniel Domingo-Fernández, Cassie Mitchell
The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Singapore, 2023.
Project PDF BibTeX
C5
BioSift: A Dataset for Filtering Biomedical Abstracts for Drug Repurposing and Clinical Meta-Analysis
David Kartchner, Irfan Al-Hussaini, Haydn Turner, Jennifer Deng, Shubham Lohiya, Prasanth Bathala, Cassie Mitchell
46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR). Taipei, Taiwan, 2023.
Project BibTeX
C4
Denoising Multi-Source Weak Supervision for Neural Text Classification
David Kartchner, Wendi Ren, Davi Nakajima An, Chao Zhang, Cassie Mitchell
Findings of EMNLP (EMNLP (Findings)). Online, 2020.
Project PDF Video Code BibTeX DOI
C3
Machine Learning Methods for Diease Prediction with Claims Data
Tanner Christensen, Abraham Frandsen, Seth Glazier, Jeff Humpherys, David Kartchner
IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI). New York City, NY, USA, 2018.
Project PDF BibTeX DOI
C2
Code2vec: Embedding and Clustering Medical Diagnosis Data
David Kartchner, Tanner Christensen, Jeff Humpherys, Sean Wade
IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI). Park City, UT, USA, 2017.
Project PDF Poster BibTeX DOI
C1
Cost Reduction via Patient Targeting and Outreach: A Statistical Approach
David Kartchner, Andrew Merrill, Jonathan Wrathall
IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI). Park City, UT, USA, 2017.
Project PDF Poster BibTeX DOI

Workshop

W2
Zero-Shot Information Extraction for Clinical Meta-Analysis using Large Language Models
David Kartchner, Irfan Al-Hussaini, Selvi Ramalingam, Olivia Kronick, Cassie Mitchell
22nd Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNLP). Toronto, Canada, 2023.
Project PDF BibTeX
W1
ReGAL: Rule-Generative Active Learning for Model-in-the-Loop Weak Supervision
David Kartchner, Wendi Ren, Davi Nakajima An, Chao Zhang, Cassie Mitchell
Human and Model-in-the-Loop Evaluation and Training Stragegies Workshop, NeurIPS (HAMLETS). Online, 2020.
Project PDF Poster BibTeX

Poster

P6
Understanding the Link Between COVID-19 and Cardiovascular Disease by Text Mining Biomedical Literature
Kevin McCoy, Janhvi Dubey, David Kartchner, Dongyu Zhang, Kevin Zhang, Rushda Umrani, Cassie Mitchell
Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting (BMES). San Antonio, TX, USA, 2022.
Project
P5
Exploring Optimizations to HeteSim for Computing Relatedness in Heterogeneous Information Networks
Stephen Allegri, Evie Davalbhakta, David Kartchner, Anna Kirkpatrick, Davi Nakajima An, Chidozie Onyeze, Cassie S. Mitchell, Prasad Tetali
American Mathematical Society Joint Meeting on Mathematics (ANA). Seattle, WA, USA, 2022.
Project
P4
Deep Learning System for Labeling Neurology Text for Predictive Medicine
Davi Nakajima An, David Kartchner, Dongyu Zhang, Cassie Mitchell
American Neurological Association Annual Meeting (ANA). Online, 2021.
Project
P3
Literature Based Discovery of Comorbid Hematological Conditions in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Treatment with Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors
Nidhi Mehra, Jeongjin Lee, Helena Thenot, Sparsh Kudrimoti, Brandon White, David Kartchner, Sateesh Gudapati, Jayant Prakash, Vivek Vanga, Cassie Mitchell
Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting (BMES). Online, 2020.
Project
P2
Unsupervised Ranking of Treatment-Related Infection Risk Factors in Pediatric Acute Leukemia
Brandon White, Lawrence He, Elaina Horlander, Nidhi Mehra, David Kartchner, Vivek Vanga, Sateesh Gudapati, Tamara Miller, Cassie Mitchell
Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting (BMES). Online, 2020.
Project
P1
Repurposed Drug Identification for COVID-19 using Literature Relationships and Knowledge Graphs
Nidhi Mehra, Brandon White, David Kartchner, Helena Thenot, Lawrence He, Elaina Horlander, Sateesh Gudapati, Jayant Prakash, Vivek Vanga, Cassie Mitchell
Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting (BMES). Online, 2020.
Project

Miscellaneous

M1
Forward Thinking: Building Deep Random Forests
Kevin Miller, Chris Hettinger, Jeffrey Humpherys, Tyler Jarvis, David Kartchner
https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.07366. 2017.
Project PDF BibTeX

Talks

LLMs in Neurology: Literature Review, Drug Repurposing, and Beyond
July 2024
American Neurological Association Annual Meeting
Automatic Extraction and Synthesis of Biomedical Data for AI-Driven Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
March 2024
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Automated extraction and synthesis of biomedical data for AI-driven systematic review and meta-analysis
Dec 2023
Georgia Tech PhD Thesis Defense
Accelerating Biomedical Discovery with Knowledge Graphs and Weakly Supervised Learning
May 2022
Georgia Tech PhD Thesis Proposal
Biomedical Information Extraction
Mar. 2021
Brigham Young University, Machine Learning for Health Class
ReGAL: Rule-Guided Active Learning for Deep Text Classification
Oct. 2020
Georgia Tech HotCSE Seminar
Survey of Knowledge Graph Embedding Rechniques
Jul. 2020
GSK AI/ML Group
Extracting Actionable Insights from Biomedical Text
Mar. 2019
Georgia Tech PhD Qualifying Exam Oral Defense
ActuarAI: Machine Learning Models for Patient Disease Forecasting and Representation
Jul. 2018
Brigham Young University Masters Thesis Defense
Walking the Walk: An Exploratory Analysis in Biometric Gait Recognition
Nov. 2016
Brigham Young University Honors Thesis Defense

Press

October 2022
"Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, National Academies Select Cassie Mitchell for Science Diversity Leadership Program," Georgia Institute of Technology
Apr 2018
"Brief Exposure to Tiny Air Pollution Particles Triggers Childhood Lung Infections, Largest Study of Its Kind Finds," Intermountain Healthcare

Teaching

Fall 2022
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Intro to Graduate Computing, Instructor: Elizabeth Cherry
Graded homework, held weekly office hours, and mentored student for CSE 6010, an introduction to graduate and parallel computing in C
Summer 2019
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Computing for Data Analysis (CX 4240), Instructor: Mahdi Roozbahani
Designed homeworks, graded homework, held weekly office hours, and mentored student on team projects for CX 4240, an undergraduate introduction to machine learning
Spring 2019
Invited Guest Lecturer
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Data Analytics for Business (MGT 6203), Instructor: Michael Lowe
Presented a week of lectures on web scraping, tweet streaming, and natural language processing for Master's of Analytics program
Aug 2017 - April 2018
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Modeling with Data and Uncertainty (Math 323, Math 325), Instructor: Tyler Jarvis
Graded homeworks, taught lectures, designed curriculum, and mentored students on team projects for Math 322 and 324, a rigorous two-semester course on probabilistic mathematics and machine learning
Spring 2017
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Abstract Algebra (Math 371), Instructor: Stephen Humpheries
Graded homeworks, held office hours, and reviewed concepts with students for Math 371, an undergraduate abstract algebra course.
Aug 2016 - April 2017
Lab Instructor
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Data Science Essentials (Math 324, Math 326), Instructor: Tyler Jarvis
Taught and graded weekly lab on data analysis to cohort of 35 undergraduates. Topics covered included data cleaning and analysis in python, SQL, bash shell, regular expressions, MongoDB, web scraping/crawling, and interactive visualization.
Spring 2016
Teaching Assistant
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Econometrics (Econ 380), Instructor: Brigham Frandsen
Graded homeworks, held office hours, and taught reviews for class of Econ 380, an undergraduate econometrics course
Fall 2014
Teaching Assistant
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Statistics for Economists (Econ 378), Instructor: Brigham Frandsen
Graded homeworks, held office hours, and taught reviews for class of Econ 378, an undergraduate statistics course
Summer 2014
Teaching Assistant
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Microeconomics (Econ 381), Instructor: Brigham Frandsen
Graded homeworks, held office hours, and taught reviews for class of Econ 381, an undergraduate microenomics course
2014-2017
Tutor
Self-Employed, Provo, UT
Tutored undergraduates in calculus, linear algebra, and economics. Also tutored wide range of high school subjects.

Mentoring

Spring 2024
Courtney Curtis
B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Automated clinical meta analysis using natural language processing
Spring 2024
Coral Jackson
B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Automated clinical meta analysis using natural language processing
Spring 2024
Eva Duvaris
B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Automated clinical meta analysis using natural language processing
Spring 2024
Sarah Tan
B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Automated clinical meta analysis using natural language processing
Spring 2024
Hannah Cho
B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Automated clinical meta analysis using natural language processing
Dec 2023 - Present
Christophe Ye
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Biomedical entity linking with global, cross-domain context
Dec 2023 - Present
Batuan Nursal
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Biomedical entity linking with global, cross-domain context
Fall 2023 - Present
Rushda Umrani
B.S. in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
Automating clinical data extraction with LLMs
Fall 2023 - Present
Anubha Majahan
B.S. in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
Automating clinical meta-analysis with LLMs
Fall 2022 - Present
Jennifer Deng
B.S. in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
Entity linking for automated knowledge graph construction; automating clinical data extraction and meta-analysis with LLMs; weakly supervised document classification and filtering
Fall 2022 - Present
Shubham Lohiya
M.S. in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
Entity linking for automated knowledge graph construction; automating clinical data extraction with LLMs
Spring 2022 - Present
Prasanth Bathala
M.S. in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
Entity linking for automated knowledge graph construction; automating clinical data extraction with LLMs
Fall 2021 - Fall 2023
Haydn Turner
B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Automating biomedical meta-analysis via human-in-the-loop natural language processing
Fall 2022 - Spring 2023
Zihan Wei
M.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Automating clinical data extraction with LLMs
Fall 2022
Tejasri Kopparthi
M.S. in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
Entity linking for automated knowledge graph construction
Fall 2022
Janvi Dubey
B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Discovering causes of COVID-19 induced cardiovascular complications via text mining and knowldge graph analysis
Spring 2022 - Fall 2022
Dongyu Zhang
B.S. in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
Automating biomedical meta-analysis via human-in-the-loop natural language processing
Fall 2019 - Spring 2022
Davi Nakajima An
B.S. in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
Text mining and knowledge graph completion
Now: PhD Student, Molecular Engineering and Sciences at University of Washington
Fall 2021 - Spring 2022
Kevin McCoy
B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Text mining for drug repurposing and mechanism of action prediction in COVID-19 and Cardiovascular Disease
Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award, Georgia Institute of Technology
Now: PhD Student, Statistics at Rice University
Spring 2021
Xinyu Chen
B.S. in Biomedical Engineering
Annotation pipelines for biomedical information extraction
Spring 2021
Brady Bove
B.S. in Biomedical Engineering
Annotation pipelines for biomedical information extraction
Now: Optimized Operations Engineer at 3M
Fall 2021
Alexis Nunn
B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Automating biomedical meta-analysis via human-in-the-loop natural language processing
Now: Product Engineer at Huxley Medical
Spring - Summer 2020
Sri Vivek Vanga
M.S. in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
Building a knowledge graph for COVID-19
Now: Senior Software Engineer at Meta

Volunteer & Leadership Experience

Community Outreach
2019 - 2022
Youth Mentor
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Atlanta, GA
Organize community service projects and teach leadership & life skills to youth ages 8-17
Fall 2019
English Teacher
Catholic Charities Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Taught semester-long English as a second language course for immigrants to United States
Spring 2015
Youth Mentor
Provo Youth Mentoring, Provo, UT
Met weekly with elementary students to teach academic and life skills
2017-2018
Student Alumni Relations Representative
College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Organized college-wide student-alumni networking dinner. Organized fundraising event for student-to-student need-based scholarship program. Met regularly with dean to discuss and address student needs.
Nov 2011 - Nov 2013
Full-time Missionary and Representative
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, San Pablo, Philippines
Taught lessons in Tagalog language designed to strengthen families and communities. Organized quarterly conference and trainings for volunteers across six cities. Gathered and analyzed organizational data for regional leadership. Organized and coordinated community service projects with local leaders.
2010 - 2011
Volunteer
Adopt-a-Grandparent, Provo, UT
Regularly visited with seniors confined to local nursing homes to provide friendship and emotional support.
2009 - 2010
Volunteer
Murray Youth City Council, Murray, UT
Assisted with local community outreach events including food drives, civil rights benefits fundraiser, and community health fair.
August 2019 - December 2021
Youth Leader
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Atlanta, GA
Organize community service projects and teach leadership & life skills to youth ages 8-17
Reviewer
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2023
ACL Rolling Review (ARR) 2023
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2023
Institutional
BYU CPMS Student Alumni Relations Representative, 2019 - 2020
Member
2020 — Present
Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL)
2017 — Present
Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
2010 - 2016
Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society

Technical Skills

Mathematics: Matrix Analysis, Complex Analysis, Functional Analysis, Numerical Linear Algebra, Control Theory, Probability Theory, Parallel Computing, Algorithm Design, Linear & Nonlinear Optimization, Active Learning, Advanced Econometrics, Abstract Algegra, Differential Equations

Machine Learning: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs), Knowledge Graphs, Deep Learning, Bayesian Statistics, Computer Vision, Semi-Supervised Learning, Weak Supervision, Information Retrieval

Packages: Pytorch, Pandas, SpaCy, NLTK, RDKit, Huggingface, LangChain, OpenAI

Programming: Python, R, Stata, Mathematica

Web: HTML, Web scraping, SQL, Cypher, LaTeX, Markdown, Jekyll, Git, Google API suite

Visualization: Figma, Seaborn, Bokeh, Draw.io

Languages: English (Native), Tagalog (Professional), Spanish (Intermediate), German (Intermediate)

References

Dr. Cassie Mitchell, Associate Professor
School of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Jeff Humpherys, Chief Data Scientist
Harbor Health
Dr. Tyler Jarvis, Director and Cofounder
Applied and Computational Mathematics Program
Brigham Young University
Dr. David Healey, Vice President of Data Science
Enveda Biosciences
Dr. Chao Zhang, Assistant Professor
School of Computational Science and Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Jon Duke, Principal Research Scientist
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Georgia Institute of Technology