Co-Op / Internship · Winter 2027 Resume

02 · Experience

Where I've shipped

Research that turned into real, measurable software — plus the clubs and teams I help run.

  1. AI/ML Research Assistant Intern

    JAN – AUG 2026

    Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering · University of Alberta · Edmonton, AB

    • Built reinforcement-learning models, then a Graph-Transformer surrogate for power-grid reconfiguration that cut simulated power loss by 31% on average (up to 34%) — within 0.16% of the exhaustive optimum.
    • Built an MCP-based agentic LLM web app (FastAPI, JS, REST APIs) reaching 95.7% routing accuracy.
    • Kept API keys out of source control; used Claude Code and Copilot for daily debugging.
    • Graph Transformers
    • Reinforcement Learning
    • FastAPI
    • JS
    • LLM Agents

  2. Dean's Research Award Research Assistant

    JAN – APR 2025

    Faculty of Engineering · University of Alberta · Edmonton, AB

    • Selected for the competitive Dean's Research Award to build a Neo4j knowledge graph of researchers, papers and institutions, loading nodes and relationships from CSV with Cypher (LOAD CSV, MERGE) via Python.
    • Built a menu-driven Python tool with Cypher queries to count nodes and relations, find nodes sharing relationships or common objects, and compare pairs of nodes.
    • Detected overlapping research disciplines across related researchers and papers, generated society and community nodes, exported results to CSV, and presented at a faculty-wide poster session.
    • Python
    • Neo4j
    • Cypher
    • CSV pipelines

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