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Recent graduate from University College Cork with a degree in Psychology and Computing. Served as a class representative for three years and as a Teaching Assistant for the Intermediate Programming and Problem Solving in Python module in final year. Over a year of experience as a Data Scientist and Software Engineer intern, specialising in developing and deploying machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) systems, including designing user interfaces. Awarded the prestigious Quercus College Scholarship twice for outstanding academic performance.

Sep 2023 - Apr 2024 | Intermediate Python Teaching Assistant at University College Cork

• Assisted second-year students with understanding and implementing programming concepts during lab sessions.
• Helped students debug their code and understand their mistakes.
• Offered mentorship and guidance to students on their academic and career aspirations.

May 2022 - Aug 2023 | Data Scientist and Software Engineer at Voxxify

• Trained and fine-tuned custom sentiment analysis, Named Entity Recognition (NER), and classification models to process, summarise, and visualise user-submitted comments, extracting valuable insights for decision makers at Fortune 500 and FSTE 100 companies.
• Set up data labelling infrastructure for the annotation team to label 10,000s of anonymised data points for model training.
• Applied advanced unsupervised clustering techniques for data categorisation, user segmentation, and community detection using graph analysis.
• Designed and executed end-to-end AI/ML pipelines from data ingestion and preprocessing to model deployment, using serverless technologies and NoSQL databases to ensure scalability and cost-efficiency.
• Developed frontend features using React including visualising AI analysis outcomes.
• Presented the company to prospective placement students, generating interest and excitement resulting in Voxxify receiving the highest number of applications from the targeted course of any company.
• Mentored new interns and documented key processes and workflows including creating tutorials on Docker, Git, and other essential tools, ensuring knowledge transfer and continuity for the team before departing.
• Successfully referred a highly skilled engineer to the company after leaving enhancing the team's technical capabilities.

October 2021 - August 2023 | Class Representative with UCC Students Union

• Provided help to students struggling with programming and stats assignments.
• Organised democratic processes for voting on contentious issues within the class.
• Liaised with module and course coordinators. Providing feedback to improve the course and resolving issues.

Sep 2020 - May 2024 | Psychology and Computing at University College Cork

• Hike Leader with UCC Mountaineering Club. 
• Project Lead at Enactus leading a project called Befriend, an initiative aimed at fostering social connection and reducing loneliness, by organising specific activities suited to introverted students. 
• Class representative for first, second and third year.

• Two-time Quercus College Scholar for academic years 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 awarded for academic excellence to the highest-scoring Psychology and Computing student.