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.