Education/Work Background
I graduated from UCLA in 2021 with a B.S. in statistics, and started my master’s at UMass right after graduation. I’ve been working with MassMutual for about 2 years now as a jr. data scientist.
R experience
R was the first “programming” language I learned, and I used it extensively during undergrad. However, I haven’t touched R much since spring 2021, as I wanted to develop my Python skills. At one point in time, I’d say I was much more experienced with R, but I have forgotten a lot of things since then.
Research interests
My interests mainly lie with data science overall - data wrangling, feature engineering and selection, and modeling. I do miss the interpretability and analysis aspect of stats (as black box models usually outperform linear models). I took COMPSCI 685 (Advanced NLP) this past semester, and would like to continue learning more about NLP as the field grows (though at this point, I don’t know anyone who doesn’t say they’re interested in NLP).
Hometown
I’m from Monterey Park, CA (a suburb in LA), and lived there until moving here to Amherst.
Hobbies
Basketball is my main passion in life, and when I’m back in LA, I play a lot of pickleball.
Fun fact
My family is named alphabetically starting from my oldest aunt (Anita) all the way down to me (Linus) and my sister (Megan).
