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Experience & projects

Experience, projects, and skills

Canva

Work · December 2022 - Current

Senior Applied Scientist - VDAS (Video Studio)

  • Stuff yet to come :p

Applied Scientist - VDAS (Video Studio)

  • Worked on stuff :p

Applied Scientist - Photo Effects

  • R&D on Background Generator, a feature with over 1 million MAUs
  • Fine-tuned diffusion models for image editing tasks such as outpainting
  • Back up (carry) research engineer, I helped with research enablement by building out the code for running training on our Anyscale HPC

Machine Learning Engineer Intern - Photo Effects

  • Developed a debiasing framework for Stable Diffusion for Canva's Text to Image feature
  • Researched and developed bias mitigation strategies targetting Stable Diffusion, addressing harmful and nonrepresentative biases in sensitive categories such as gender and ethnicity

DiGiCOR

Work · July 2022 - October 2022

Data Science Intern

  • Managed a team of four to build a real-time sales dashboard using Streamlit, pulling data from NetSuite's REST API. Visualised millions of rows in customer interactions for key insights.

Monash University

Work · November 2021 - July 2022

Winter Research Assistant

Developed a genetic programming framework using simulation in Julia to address a game theoretic problem called paramless. The problem studies function valued traits, specifically in the context of journal/author dynamics.

Summer Research Assistant

Parsed and analyzed commit data from over 30,000 deep-learning libraries using GitHub's REST API and Python to understand the evolution of deep-learning libraries for AutoML

Monash University

Education · February 2020 - December 2023

Bachelor of Applied Data Science Advanced Honours

  • First Class Honours with a final grade of 90
  • Dean's List Award for academic excellence (2021, 2022), Summer and Winter Research scholarships
  • Thesis: Bias Modelling and Mitigation in Diffusion Models

Monash Association of Coding

Extracurricular · February 2021 - September 2023

Events Officer -> Events Director -> President

  • Overseen growth to over 1100 members, running a technical careers evening with over 100 attendees
  • Conducted 4 successful coding workshops in Python, covering topics such as FastAPI, discord.py, and web development, reaching over 200 attendees