Projects
Asian Pacific Heritage Month
Founded and led 15-person committee as the most junior employee across 3 months for SVP of HR’s company-wide initiative with projects in deal-making, fundraising, external communications, social media, guest interview events, artist relations and content programming.
SmartFridge Database Web App
Prepared complex SQL queries, wrangled data with structured prediction model and made slide deck for web app recognized as a top 3 project in databases course.
Information Bottleneck in Deep Learning
Literature review on a trendy idea in deep learning (i.e. the Information Bottleneck Method). Mathematically rigorous, information-theoretic analysis indicates that a lot of research in this area is sketchy at best. I propose a novel research avenue.
Chess-Ray Vision
The goal of this project was to detect chess piece positions in photos of live chess games using CNNs (i.e. deep learning). We constructed our own hand-labeled dataset of 500 photos.
MLS All-Star Scavenger Hunt (Activation Campaign)
Activation campaign for the MLS All-Star Game (Atlanta United vs. Juventus). Check out the Instagram story!
Email Open-rate Segmentation & Targeting
Fit Weibull, Weibull Gamma & exponential distributions with hazard functions to reframe open rates in terms of 3 user activity levels. Most important insight is that sending more emails does not improve retention. Makes recommendations on sending targeted, customer-centric emails.
SeatGeek + Tinder Integration Concept
Hackathon project that won best inter-office collaboration. Motivates people to actually meet up to see a live event.
Taylor Swift FOMO Email Mockup
Creative new email format to illustrate hypothesis that focusing efforts on “FOMO-inducing” email templates for high-GTV (gross ticket value) concert tours may increase concert revenues.
A.I. & Authorship in Copyright Law
Proposed legal framework for analyzing copyright of authorial works which use A.I. technology on training set, parameter and hyperparameter levels (paralleling video game case law) and indicated areas for potential fair use violation at scale.
Music Promotion & Cult Following
This paper analyzes the purchase processes of two obscure alternative rock albums by fitting 28 timing models.
Pure Appropriation — Fair Use?
Appropriation artist Michael Mandiberg appropriates Sherrie Levine, who appropriated the photography of Walker Evans.
Suicidal Ideation Among College Students
Built probability models to uncover mathematical insights into the nature of suicidal crises, and make recommendations regarding at-risk reporting accuracy, and preventability.
Charting Emotions in Year-End Billboard Hot 100 Lyrics
Used R packages to scrape, clean and perform sentiment analysis on unstructured text data (lyrics) to see if the emotional content of popular music on the Year-End Billboard Hot 100 has shifted between 2008 and 2016.
FTI Activism Map
Oversaw bi-annual design and content update for FTI Consulting's Global Shareholder Activism Map, an interactive visualization featured on ftiactivism.com.
Wharton Investment & Trading Group Logo
Designed original logo and variations for the second largest undergraduate Wharton club.
SPARK Photo Magazine
Curated photo magazine with striking layout, as a new channel for showcasing original student photography.