Career Experience

Data Science and Machine Learning Intern
Santa Clara, CA
Worked on a research project at the intersection of deep learning and functional data analysis.

Data Scientist
Tehran, Iran
Analyzed national census and healthcare data and studied variables associated with healthcare quality. Developed a sampling approach using hierarchical clustering, principal component analysis, and decision-tree-based analysis to identify representative regions and distinguishing variables.

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Ames, IA
Assisted with a course of approximately 180 students covering entity-relational data modeling, SQL, query optimization, database application development with JDBC, internal database systems, and graph databases using Neo4j.

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Ames, IA
Assisted with a course of approximately 540 students covering Java programming and fundamental concepts in object-oriented programming.

Graduate Research Assistant
Ames, IA
Developed reinforcement-learning approaches for maize breeding simulation and studied uncertainty quantification and out-of-distribution detection in deep-learning models. Worked with methods including conformal prediction, Mahalanobis-distance-based detection, maximum SoftMax probability, and energy-based out-of-distribution detection.

Graduate Research Assistant
Ames, IA
Studied fairness bug repair in parallel ensemble models through modular decomposition and conducted empirical studies on fairness in ensemble learning.

Graduate Research Assistant
Ames, IA
Studied causal inference with missing data, including different missing-data mechanisms and the estimation of causal effects from observational data. Worked with causal graphical models to represent and analyze real-world problems.