Jacob Dallaire
Jacob holds a B.Cs from Carleton university and is working towards his M.Cs in computational perception and robotics. He works for the Canadian Federal government performing risk profiling. In his personal time Jacob spends his times in the mountains hiking or snowboarding.
Ayush Parikh
Ayush is an OMSCS student pursuing the ML specialization. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania in May 2021 with a degree in Computer Science and minors in Math, Data Science, and Entrepreneurship. While at Penn, Ayush co-authored 2 journal publications through the Vojvodic computational chemistry lab. He was also awarded the Littlejohn Summer Research Fellowship as well as the Norman Gross Award for his senior design project, StockSense. Ayush currently works as a backend software engineer at Microsoft and lives in the Seattle area. As part of HAAG, Ayush is working on 2 projects. The first project is a collaboration with Dr. Stroud’s biology research group to study lizard evolution. Ayush is developing an ML-powered image processing and landmarking pipeline for this project. For the second project, he is working on the higher education research team studying community outreach programs and how to make large, online research groups more effective. In his free time, Ayush loves to play piano, run, and cheer on the Yankees, Knicks, and Giants as he is originally from NJ.
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Mercedes Quintana
Currently pursuing a master’s degree in the OMSCS program, Mercedes Quintana is transitioning from a classical musician to the field of computer science. She is excited to be a HAAG researcher working in Dr. Stroud’s lab where she will be working with computer vision and machine learning techniques to make scientists’ lives a little easier. In her free time, she enjoys playing music, urban wandering and reading.
Philip Woolley
Philip Woolley is a software engineer specializing in data engineering and machine learning for a medical device company. He is pursuing his master’s degree in Computer Science through the OMSCS program. He is working on a project for automated segmentation of lizard images.
Shuyu Tian
Shuyu Tian is a chemical engineer working in process and material development of polymer membrane for industrial and medical uses and uses machine learning to accelerate experimentation and scale up processes. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Computer Science through the OMSCS program and is working on the Lizard Jaw Segmentation project. In his free time, he enjoys playing soccer, swimming, and playing the guitar.
Ming Zhong is a student in the OMSCS program. He holds a master’s degree in Statistics and brings extensive expertise in data science and analytics. In addition to his work at HAAG, Ming supports a convenience store chain company as a Data Scientist, leveraging data-driven solutions to optimize operations and decision-making. He is currently working on a project to automate segmentation of lizard jaw images.
Taran Lau
Taran Lau is a graduate student in the OMSCS program currently acting as a student researcher for the Stroud biological lab. His current area of research involves using machine learning to identify and classify lizard behaviors using video datasets and pose estimation.