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My Portfolio
Work
Canva
Senior Applied Scientist - VDAS (Video Studio)
March 2026 - Current
- Stuff yet to come :p
Applied Scientist - VDAS (Video Studio)
Sep 2025 - February 2026
- Worked on stuff :p
Applied Scientist - Photo Effects
Feb 2024 - Sep 2025
- 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
December 2022 - February 2023
- 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
Data Science Intern
July 2022 - October 2022
- 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
Winter Research Assistant
June 2022 - July 2022
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
November 2021 - January 2022
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
Education
Monash University
Bachelor of Applied Data Science Advanced Honours
February 2020 - December 2023
- 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
Extracurricular
Monash Association of Coding
Events Officer -> Events Director -> President
February 2021 - September 2023
- 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
Projects
pokered-trainer-tournament
A recreation of the Pokemon Red ELO tournament using the PKMN engine.
project-maidenless
A streamlit application which generates text from Love Letter pages and visualises information about them.
uwucode
A toy programming language designed in Rust. It features a custom lexer and parser built from scratch. The language supports variables, functions, and control flow. It was created as a learning project to understand compiler design. The syntax is intentionally playful and fun to write.
acmonaghan.github.io
A CV site built on eldoraboo/portable-portfolio with THREE.js rendering the background.
mini-melbourne-3d
A new version of Mini Melbourne with 3D rendering using Mapbox GL JS + bus, tram, and VLine data.
skirtor
An effort to compress the SKIRTOR model files and visualise them through Streamlit.
monash-handbook-plus
A comprehensive Monash University handbook tool with unit search, cost calculator, areas of study browser, interactive graph visualization, degree planner with auto-scheduling, pathway finder, and shareable study plans.
saikumarmk.com
My personal website and blog built with SvelteKit. Features a Pokemon-themed aesthetic, interactive skill tree (Yggdrasil), blog posts about tech and university, project showcase, and 3D visualizations.