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Service

• Conference Reviewer (2021): Reviewed papers for the ICML 2021 conference proceedings.

• Research Mentor (2021): Mentored 3 students for the Fatima Fellowship 2021.

• Research Scholar (2021): Invited to join an AI Policy Research Clinic hosted by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Produced guidelines navigating the legal, technical, social, and ethical dimensions of public sector AI policy.

Talks

• Algorithmic Recourse and Counterfactuals (Mar 2021): Pair of guest lectures given at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, for the course CS 282BR: Interpretability and Explainability in Machine Learning.

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• Performance Improvements with Cython (Nov 2018): Presented Cython static typing as a technique to reduce program runtimes at the Python User Group, Singapore. Provided an interactive demonstration of code profiling and static type conversions, and also helped troubleshoot queries over the following weeks.

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Software

• Mortgage Refinancing Calculator (Mar 2018): An implementation of an Actor Critic algorithm for Optimal Mortgage Refinancing. This is a modular, pure Python implementation of the algorithm developed in the paper A Simultaneous Deterministic Perturbation Actor-Critic Algorithm with an Application to Optimal Mortgage Refinancing.

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• HistManager (Jul 2016): A lightweight utility to better maintain command line history on Bash compatible Linux machines, with a built in ability to separate each terminal session into a custom environment with additional features to merge, archive or search environment command history.

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