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HAMISH HUGGARD

hamish.huggard@gmail.com

https://github.com/hamishhuggard

Summary

My main areas of interest are data science, machine learning, data visualisation, and web development.

Skills

Python, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, LLMs, NLP, PyTorch, Pandas, SKLearn, SQL, Postgres, Data visualisation, Matplotlib, Plotly, Illustration, Web development, HTML, CSS, Javascript, D3.js, Copy writing, Research

Awards

2020 Best M.Sc. Thesis in Computer Science
2019 Postgraduate Research Scholarship
2017 Postgraduate Honours Scholarship
2017 Senior Scholar Award in the Faculty of Arts
2015 Sir Robert Jones Scholarship in Philosophy

Experience

2024 METR Model Interaction Contractor I work on developing evaluations for cutting edge language models to measure their ability to write code, do AI research, and other tasks.

2022-2023 Sketchy Reasoning Animator I won a grant from Open Philanthropy to create animations explaining global challenges.

2020-2021 Litmaps Data Scientist I deployed NLP features with Python, Linux, AWS. Plus data visualisation with Javascript and React, and data engineering with Postgres and Redis.

2018-2020 Orion Health Intern/Graduate Data scientist I worked on biomedical applications of natural language processing and deep learning.

Education

2018-2020 University of Auckland GPA: 9.0/9.0 Master's Degree in Computer Science
2014-2017 University of Auckland GPA: 8.6/9.0 Bachelor of Science in Physics and Computer Science
2014-2017 University of Auckland GPA: 8.6/9.0 Bachelor of Science in Physics and Computer Science

Publications

2020 Concept drift detection for medical triage.
Hamish Huggard, Yun Sing Koh, Gillian Dobbie, Edmond Zhang.
2019 Feature importance for biomedical named entity recognition.
Hamish Huggard, Aaron Zhang, Edmond Zhang, Yun Sing Koh.
2018 Predicting air quality from low-cost sensor measurements.
Hamish Huggard, Yun Sing Koh, Patricia Riddle, Gustavo Olivares.

Other accomplishments

2022 Walked the length of New Zealand on the Te Araroa trail.