Curriculum Vitae
Research · Engineering · Statistics
Experience
Work
2025 – Present
Research Machine Learning Scientist II
Layer 6 AI · TD Bank Group · Toronto, Canada
- Theoretical and applied LLM research for financial applications.
- Generative modeling, anomaly detection, and stochastic differential equations in production systems.
2024 – 2025
Software Developer
Robinhood · Toronto, Canada
- Member of the Identity team: responsible for authentication and authorization of users.
- Developed and maintained backend services for the Robinhood trading platform.
- Improved performance and reliability; collaborated with frontend on new features.
- Technologies: Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS.
2024
Sessional Lecturer
University of Toronto · Toronto, Canada
- Instructed STA237: Probability, Statistics and Data Analysis I.
2019 – 2024
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Toronto · Toronto, Canada
- Supervised by Dr. Dehan Kong and Dr. Zhaolei Zhang.
- Research on optimal transport and stochastic differential equations applied to single-cell RNA sequencing data.
- Focus areas: anomaly detection, generative modeling, and time series analysis.
2019 – 2024
Teaching Assistant
University of Toronto · Toronto, Canada
- Undergraduate statistics courses from introductory probability to advanced multivariate statistics.
- Held tutorials as mini-lectures for undergraduate students.
Background
Education
2019 – 2024
Doctor of Philosophy · Statistics
University of Toronto · Toronto, Canada
- Research: Optimal Transport, Stochastic Differential Equations, Generative Modeling.
- Thesis: Applications of Optimal Transport and Stochastic Differential Equations in Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Data.
2015 – 2019
Bachelor of Science
University of Toronto · Toronto, Canada
- Specialist: Pathobiology.
- Major: Statistics. Minor: Mathematics.
Recognition
Honors & Awards
- 2015–19 Dean's List — University of Toronto
- 2018 New College Council In-Course Scholarship — University of Toronto
- 2017 LMP Undergraduate Summer Research Program UROP Award — University of Toronto
- 2015 Undergraduate Entrance Award — University of Toronto
Focus Areas
Academic Interests
Optimal Transport
Stochastic Differential Equations
Generative Modelling
Wasserstein GANs
Mean Field Game / Control
Large Language Models
Anomaly Detection
Outside the Lab
Other Interests
Football (soccer) · Piano · World of Warcraft · League of Legends