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Doctoral Student

Location:
Minneapolis, MN
Salary:
60,000
Posted:
October 17, 2026

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Top Skills

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Git

PySpark

Certifications

NVIDIA DLI Certificate –

Fundamentals of Deep Learning

Marlin Lee

Doctoral Student at University of Minnesota

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Summary

As a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Minnesota, I am passionately dedicated to exploring the black box of AI models to improve our understanding of the world. My focus concentrates in mechanistic interpretability in the image domain and how to use the discovered features.I hold Bachelor's degrees in computer science, Data science, and math from the University of Wisconsin. During my Time at the University of Wisconsin I worked with the Data Science Institute(DSI), Where I worked with the State Lab of Hygiene on cutting edge Wastewater based Covid detection. The code I worked on got submitted for Cran and can be found:https://github.com/UW-Madison-DSI/Covid19WastewaterTo contact me regarding professional matters, please use my email address: ********@***.***.

Experience

University of Minnesota

Graduate Teaching Assistant

August 2023 - Present (3 years 3 months)

CSCI 5523: Introduction to Data Mining

- Assisted students with programming challenges in Python

- Created new Homework assignments to evaluate there conceptual and practical skills

- Created autograders to help give prompt feedback on student implementations

- Provided one-on-one tutoring during office hours

- Helped teach Data mining concepts and tools like pyspark CSCI 2033: Elementary Computational Linear Algebra

- Led weekly recitation sessions to reinforce lecture concepts

- Provided one-on-one tutoring during office hours

- Provided detailed feedback on homework assignments and quizzes

- Made autograders for HW

CSCI 2011: Discrete Structures of Computer Science Page 1 of 2

- Led weekly recitation sessions to reinforce lecture concepts

- Provided one-on-one tutoring during office hours

- Assisted students with proof techniques and mathematical induction

- Developed practice problem sets for weekly recitation

- Provided detailed feedback on homework assignments UW–Madison Data Science Institute

Student Researcher

January 2021 - July 2023 (2 years 7 months)

Madison

Led COVID-19 wastewater surveillance research at UW-Madison in partnership with Wisconsin's Department of Health Services and State Lab of Hygiene. Developed statistical models that aimed to identify viral trends in wastewater samples 7-10 days before clinical case spikes. Engineered an R package for data analysis to help wastewater analysis. Both analysis and R package are published on github. Designed interactive dashboards using Shiny that visualized epidemiological data for many sites across Wisconsin. Education

University of Minnesota

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science · (August 2023 - August 2029) University of Wisconsin-Madison

Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Mathematics, Data Science · (2019 - June 2023)

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