aaron lee
Data Scientist at Apple
data scientist apple
Apple
https://www.linkedin.com/company/apple
Austin
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Data Scientist
IBM
https://www.linkedin.com/company/ibm
Implement data science and machine learning solutions for clients using Python, R, Spark, Hive, SQL, MLlib, scikit-learn, XGBoost, Watson etc.
Austin
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Data Scientist - IBM Cloud
Kaggle
https://www.linkedin.com/company/kaggle
Trained convolutional neural networks (ResNet, EfficientNet, etc.) to identify presence and severity of diabetic retinopathy presenting in images of patients' eyes. Leveraged SOTA image augmentation (spatial transformers, GAN-based image stylization)and transfer learning (network finetuning, fixed feature extraction) techniques. Trained on Google Cloud AI Platform with PyTorch.
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APTOS 2019 Blindness Detection
Kaggle
https://www.linkedin.com/company/kaggle
Built and trained deep neural networks (Keras, Tensorflow), gradient boosted decision trees (XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost), and stacked ensembles to identify promising transparent conductor materials.
Placed 136/883 (top 16%)
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Nomad 2018 Transparent Conductor Identification
IBM
https://www.linkedin.com/company/ibm
Designed and implemented a new Watson Cloud offering that uses speech recognition to automatically caption video content using Python and Node.js.
Austin, Texas
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Extreme Blue Data Science Intern - Watson
The University of Texas at Dallas
https://www.linkedin.com/company/university-of-texas-at-dallas
Utilized functional programming to write a port of the open-source Binary Analysis Platform's Intel x86 instruction lifter for formal verification.
Richardson, Texas
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Research Engineer - Software Security Lab
Cisco
https://www.linkedin.com/company/cisco
Led team of students developing a real-time cloud application to manage Cisco's virtual machine resources using Python, Flask, Elasticsearch, Docker, and Rancher.
Richardson, Texas
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Senior Design Project
Bachelor's degree
Computer Science
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The University of Texas at Dallas
https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-texas-at-dallas/
Master's degree
Computer Science
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The University of Texas at Dallas
https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-texas-at-dallas/
Performed traffic and packet analysis, port scanning, etc. and wrote a detailed report describing the device security of Amazon's Echo Dot.
Amazon Echo Dot IoT Security Analysis
Skills Used: Scala, Spark, MLlib

Dataset: https://www.kaggle.com/c/favorita-grocery-sales-forecasting/data

Description: Use 4 years of grocery sales data (85 million+ rows) to predict item sales in the future. Did statistical analysis for visualization and feature engineering. Used Spark to build data transformation pipeline, prediction using ensemble of 150 Gradient Boosted Decision Trees, and error analysis.
Grocery Sales Time Series Forecast
https://github.com/alee0735/bd-notebooks/blob/master/SalesPrediction.scala
Skills Used: Python, PySpark, Spark RDD

Description: Used Spark to analyze customer ratings of different business, overall customer satisfaction, aggregation, sorting,  ranking of ratings etc. was done with Spark RDDs and functional programming.
Business Analytics Project (Big Data)
https://github.com/alee0735/bd-notebooks/blob/master/AaronLeeAssignment3.ipynb
Skills Used: Python, Pyspark, Spark Dataframes

Dataset: https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Cervical+cancer+%28Risk+Factors%29

Description: Objective was to predict malignant/benign instances of cervical cancer. Used Spark to build a data transformation pipeline to perform class indexing into numerical features, data scaling, grid parameter search, cross validation, dimensionality reduction with PCA,  logistic regression classification, and prediction analysis.
Cervical Cancer Analysis Project (Big Data/Machine Learning)
https://github.com/alee0735/bd-notebooks/blob/master/A5P3S1.ipynb
Skills Used: Java 7, Maven, Hadoop, MapReduce and Unix.

Description: Tracked user visits, reviews of restaurants, highest/lowest rated restaurants, most satisfied/dissatisfied customers, restaurant ratings across different regions/states,  etc.
Big Data Project - Yelp Restaurant Analytics
https://github.com/alee0735/yelp-restaurant-bigdata/tree/master/BDA2/src/main/java/BigDataA2
Education
The University of Texas at Dallas
https://www.linkedin.com/company/university-of-texas-at-dallas
Provided personalized teaching sessions for college undergraduates (both CS and non-CS majors).
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Computer Science Tutor
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitinsingh3
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area
Nitin Singh
Data Science Manager at Apple
https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-sebastian
Austin, TX
Steve Sebastian
ML Engineer / Data Scientist at Apple
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shubhikala
Dallas, TX
Shubhi Kala
Software Engineer at Apple
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tianren-fu-3179a81b0
New York, NY
Tianren Fu
Data Scientist at Robinhood
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tayfunayazma
Denver Metropolitan Area
Tayfun Ayazma, PhD
Data Scientist | Data Analyst | Machine Learning Engineer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wesleykerr
Los Angeles, CA
Wesley Kerr
Senior Principal Data Scientist at Riot Games
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellinmcavoy
Austin, TX
Kellin McAvoy
Software Engineer at Electronic Arts (EA)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/edwardgarmon
Austin, TX
Edward Garmon
Software Development Engineer at Amazon
https://www.linkedin.com/in/natashajulka
Los Angeles, CA
Natasha Julka
Head of Data at Riot Games
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafael-pinto-215558b2
Colorado Springs, CO
Rafael Pinto
Director, Data Science at IBM
https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidcrothers
Dallas, TX
David Crothers
Analytics, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Financial, Systems & IT Executive
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rymanstringer
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area
Ryman Stringer
Hiring ethical and curious Machine Learning Engineers and Software Engineers
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sooleanchoy
San Francisco Bay Area
Soolean Choy
Legal Counsel, Competition Law & Policy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/charalampospapadimitriou
Los Angeles, CA
Charalampos (Harry) Papadimitriou
Data Science Manager at Riot Games
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cate-harding-137255
San Francisco, CA
Cate Harding
Customer experience leader in retail
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhaozhenyu
San Francisco Bay Area
Zhenyu Zhao
Data Science Director at Tencent (Hiring in Palo Alto & Singapore)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanfj
Malvern, PA
Amandeep Jiddewar
Machine Learning | Data Scientist | Clean Code Practitioner
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-dusch
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area
Bill Dusch, PhD
Certified Advisory Data Scientist | Neurodiversity@IBM Global BRG Co-Chair | User Research, CIO, IBM
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Manchester Area, United Kingdom
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Chef Consultant
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New Braunfels, TX
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Branch Manager at City Electric Supply
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Richmond Hill, ON
Aaron Lee
Managing Director, Global Health Solutions (Canada) Inc. | General Manager, MediFast Inc.
Global IBM Extreme Blue Alumni Network
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