Data Scientist | Data Science, Analytics, & Engineering | Python, R, SQL, AWS, C

Education

• M.S., Data Science

  The University of Virginia School of Data Science (May 2025)

• B.A., Cognitive Sciecne - Psychology

  The University of Virginia (May 2024)

Experience

Data Scientist @ Pollstar(OVG) (June 2025 - Present)

MSDS Admissions Ambassador @ UVA School of Data Science (June 2024 - May 2025)

• Welcomed Visitors to Grounds and provided information and tours of the building and academic programs
• Met with prospective students via informative 1:1 appointments

Data Report Designer @ JABA (Jefferson Area Board of Aging) (January 2024 - June 2024)

• Corresponded with managers and directors to ascertain methods of data collecting, formatting, and targets for data
• Determined optimal formats for capturing and displaying data in Excel dashboards to present goal progression

** Psycholinguistics Research Assistant @ UVA Cognitive Science Research (June 2023 - June 2024)**

• Facilitated the development of a study researching Vocal Similarity Among Siblings using the PRAAT data analysis program
• Conducted interviews with three pairs of research participants to detect nuances of speech between siblings

Association Council Vice-President @ UVA Residential Leadership Experience (August 2023 - June 2024)

• Organized fun and relaxing events for the dorm community. Devised community outreach programs within Charlottesville
• Nominated for resident of the month for November & March by the National Residence Hall Honorarium UVA

Projects/ Research

Masters Capstone

[Strategic Storytelling Capstone]

• Analyzed NLP emotion scores and various other TV show genre trends and metrics to maximize viewership
• Developed an interactive dashboard visualizing key insights for creators, network executives, and media analysts
• Full Paper

  Genius API & Apple Music Listening History(Personal Project) - Github Repo

• Using the Genius API, we can analyze the lyrical complexity of the most popular songs on Genius.com
• Has your Apple Music Replay or Spotify Wrapped not given you the deep graphical insights you want? No worries!
• Attained CSVs & JSONs from Apple containing my personal library & listening history. Then, graphed insights and performed predictive analysis on the data

Large Language Model for Spoiler Free Reading

• Constructed an LLM that can give the reader spoiler-free information about a novel when given a question about the Harry Potter Series
• Fine-tuned Qwen and LLaMA models on Harry Potter text and GPT-4o generated question-response pairs for more accurate model outputs

Full Paper

Convolutional Neural Network Car Brand Classification

• Coded a CNN that, given an image of a car, identifies the car brand trained on 4500+ images of cars of the Top 50 US brands.
• Performed Clustering to filter out non-car images.
• Github Repo

A Phenomenological Examination of Vocal Similarity among Siblings: Investigating the Mechanisms and Implications

• Analyzed data on vocal frequency and timbre to determine linguistic similarities and differences between siblings
• Undergraduate Research