Experience
Senior Research Data Scientist
Google
July 2025 - Current
- Architected and built a Python library for LLM-based quality evaluation framwork, enabling parallel execution of prompt DAGs and automated quality evaluation metrics
- Researched novel techniques in meta prompts and agentic workflows; built testing and validation suite to evaluate AI rater quality at scale and measure outcome variability
- Created metrics to improve Google Discover recommender system, validating retrieval algorithm quality and performance
- Provided technical guidance on experiment design and analysis, identifying meaningful lift across key user sub-cohorts
Senior Machine Learning Engineer / Data Scientist
Apple
Dec 2019 - July 2025
- Led cross-functional teams in developing, shipping and maintaining core on-device ML algorithms to users:
- Meal logging tool with food image classification and LLM nutrition feedback
- Personalized workout recommender system using a multi objective loss function and online learning
- Unsupervised walk detection algorithm from steps data
- Contextual notifications engine using routine identification (commute to work, typical workout time, etc)
- Evaluated performance of ML models with focus on safety, robustness and privacy and efficacy communicated tradeoffs to partners
- Architected data schema and privacy preserving data collection framework for launch of multiple health related programs and research studies (Lumihealth, Heartline, Attain)
- Created application for labeling health data to create datasets and provide human feedback for models
- Built data pipelines to process high volumes of medical claims data and health sensor data
- Designed research studies and experiments to study impact of digital interventions and models on hypertension, diabetes, asthma, MCI and atrial fibrillation
Research
Brigham Young University
Master of Science, Computer Science
Bachelor of Science, Applied Mathematics
December 2017
Researched synthetic cancer cell image generation using conditional adversarial neural networks and wrote a python library to distribute it. Created novel methods for representing medical claims history with vector embeddings.
Internships
AI Platform Engineer Intern
Microsoft
Jun 2019 - Sep 2019
- Created tools to improve deploying, evaluating, and retraining ML models on Azure
- Extended Azure SDK to support MLflow
Machine Learning Resident
Disney
Jan 2018 - May 2018
- Developed recommender system for rides/attractions in Disney World Park app
- Created realtime pipelines and dashboards to monitor performance
Computer Vision Engineer
Loveland Innovations
Mar 2017 - Aug 2018
- Used drone imaging and photogrammetry to construct 3D models of buildings
- Built convolutional neural network to identify and classify roof damage
Skills
Python, Swift, SQL, C++
LLM post training, fine tuning and RLHF
LLM evaluation and AI rater systems
Prompt engineering and agentic workflows
Deep learning (PyTorch, JAX)
Distributed systems (Spark, Hadoop, etc)
Medical claims and sensor data
CV algorithms and tools (OpenCV, PCL)
Privacy preserving ML
Numerical methods and mathematical modeling