Hi, I'm a Staff Research Scientist at Meta MRS. Founded Edutechs, where I serve as CTO. Previously ML @ University of British Columbia, BigScience / Hugging Face, Scotiabank, and BC Cancer Research Centre.
Outside of work, I've been playing guitar since I was ten and love reading about philosophy and history.
Timeline
Researching and building state-of-the-art models for content understanding, user understanding, retrieval, and ranking across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, with a focus on LLM and agent-based modeling. Taking these from research to production while targeting long-horizon breakthroughs in recommendation systems rather than incremental tuning.
Developing SOTA ML models to predict user engagement, maximizing both user experience and advertiser value across all Meta Platforms.
Founded Edutechs and led the engineering team, designing end-to-end roadmaps for batch and real-time ML systems and building distributed microservices for 30,000+ paid users. Raised multiple funding rounds from angel investors and VCs, recognized in HolonIQ's South Asia EdTech 100 (2022 & 2023), and selected for Accelerating Asia (top 10 from 600+ startups).
Research on LLMs for long-text classification under Dr. Kevin Leyton-Brown. Implemented distributed parallel training pipelines for LLaMA-2 (70B), Vicuna, and DeBERTa-v2. Experimented with gradual unfreezing, in-context learning (CoT, ToT, Self-Consistency), and QLoRA fine-tuning.
Co-authored BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model, trained on 46 languages and 13 programming languages by a collaboration of 1,000+ researchers worldwide.
Built fraud detection ML model and engineered features for cheque fraud detection. Designed and delivered an end-to-end NLP system for customer consent monitoring.
Worked in Dr. Sohrab Shah's computational oncology lab, co-authoring papers on scalable single-cell genome sequencing of 40,000 cells and clonal decomposition and DNA replication states via scaled single-cell genome sequencing.
Majored in Computer Science at UBC.