University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI

B.S., Computer Science

2022 - 2024

Healthcare Python Developer, Pacific Health Informatics and Data Center

• Working under the Decision Support System and Data Warehouse initiative at TASI to provide health claims data storage and enrollment verification capabilities to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
• Assisted in the development of an ETL pipeline from healthcare providers to health claims examiners through the automatic generation of a transmittal spreadsheet from a MS SQL database.
• Presented findings using data visualization techniques in R during a poster presentation, effectively communicating results to a broader scientific audience.
• Followed covered entity procedures to ensure HIPAA-compliant data security and PHI handling.

2024 - Present

Data Science Research Intern, University of Hawaii at Manoa - CTAHR

• Developed a script in R to determine harvest readiness of plants, enhancing agricultural data collection efficiency.
• Conducted extensive data cleaning and pooling in R to prepare large agricultural datasets for machine learning analysis, ensuring the accuracy and reliability of subsequent research findings.
• Presented findings using data visualization techniques in R during a poster presentation, effectively communicating results to a broader scientific audience.

2024 - 2024

AI Research Assistant, University of Hawaii at Hilo

Conducted research in the field of human-in-the-loop machine learning.

• Worked closely with the Data Science Program Coordinator at the university, Dr. Travis Mandel, to develop a user interface employing an active learning model with a Human-In-The-Loop system.
• Engineered an evaluator to measure AI-assisted efficiency gains in the human annotation of invasive species of ecology on Hawaii Island.
• Utilized Python data visualization techniques to graphically represent the data from the evaluator which captured the decrease in time that the human spent on each image and time spent doing various annotation actions.

2021 - 2021

Member, Hilo High Key Club

Participated in a multitude of service projects over the course of two years for a total of over 100 service hours.

• Provided relief for people affected by the 2018 Puna Eruption
• Helped with a Keiki Shopping day to provide cheap second hand items for kids in need

2018 - 2020

W. Wesley and Hiromi Peterson Student Support Endowment, University of Hawaii Foundation

Awarded to students enrolled in a degree program in the Department of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa for the purpose of encouraging and recognizing excellence in research and/or scholarship.

2024

Deans List, UH Manoa

Awarded to full time students that maintain a 3.5 GPA or higher.

2022-2024