Austin Lara
Martinez, CA +1-925-***-**** **********@*****.***
linkedin.com/in/austlara/
May 2020
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Cognitive Science
University of Southern California
Technical Skills
Data Analytics, Data Visualization, Predictive Analysis, Machine Learning, Data Structures, Data Management, Microsoft Excel
Programming Languages
Python, C++, SQL
Packages
Scikit-Learn, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, TensorFlow, Jupyter Notebook, Google Colab
Skills
January 2020 - April 2020
July 2019 - May 2020
Work Experience
Data Management Intern
USC Ellison Institute of Transformative Medicine
• Work in clinical trials and aid with data collection, database maintenance, and data analysis.
• Transfer data and medical images throughout the health center to improve workflow. Undergraduate Research Assistant
Computational Social Science Laboratory
• Conduct research by using semantic analysis and deep learning to detect hate speech on social media platforms.
• Data labeling to create high quality datasets for machine learning. Projects
Movie Recommendation System
• Utilized content-based filtering and collaborative filtering to create a recommendation engine.
• Created personalized recommendations for users based on user similarity and watch history. Breast Cancer Prediction
• Build a machine learning model and utilized supervised learning for the Breast Cancer Wisconsin dataset.
• Applied machine learning classification algorithms to yield 97% accuracy. The Gab Hate Corpus
• Assisted with the publication of the largest annotated corpus of hate speech used for training and evaluating hate speech classifier.
• Performed data annotation and cleaning for optimal model performance. Minimax
• Implemented using reinforcement learning that focuses on optimal decision-making and game theory.
• The algorithm computes the Minimax decision from a current state of a team-building game. October 2020
September 2020
Professional Development
Certificate of Completion: Machine Learning and Data Science Course Zero to Mastery
Certification of Completion: TensorFlow for Deep Learning Udacity