Research Assistant, Language and Learning Lab University of Nevada Las Vegas, February 2023 - July 2024
- Collaborated with three colleagues to conduct research on translation algorithms to enhance the accuracy of conveying nuance and cumulative meanings in translation between English and Spanish
- Reported weekly on updates and findings to the principal investigator Contributed to a research paper as third author, published Summer 2024
- Utilized corpus analysis, sentiment analysis, and machine learning models to evaluate translation accuracy, identifying patterns in emotional and contextual misinterpretations
Independent Research, February 2022 - September 2023
- Independently researching the application of computational linguistic AI in quizbowl under the guidance of a PhD advisor from Johns Hopkins University
- Developing AI-driven methods to improve comprehension and response accuracy for complex, knowledge-based quizbowl questions, primarily through KNN and vectorization
