Volunteer and leadership
Hosting, reviewing, mentoring and speaking, newest first. The constant underneath the engineering work is explaining it to people who did not build it.
Jul 2024
Microsoft
Microsoft AI Expert Panel Q&A – Organizer & Host
Organized & hosted Microsoft's AI Expert Panel on LLM scaling, retrieval architectures, explainability, and responsible AI.
Jun 2024
Microsoft Machine Learning, AI & Data Science Conference
MLADS Co-Area Chair & Proposal Reviewer
As co-area chair & proposal reviewer for Microsoft's MLADS AI/ML conference, evaluated and selected talks and posters in forecasting, anomaly detection, and semi-supervised learning.
Jul 2023 – Feb 2025
Microsoft
Microsoft Aspire Leadership Council Member | Azure Core Early-in-Career Pillar Lead
Served on Microsoft's Aspire Leadership Council, leading Azure Core's early-in-career pillar and mentoring early-career engineers.
Nov – Dec 2022
Simon Fraser University
SFU “From Academia to Industry” podcast – Co-Creator & Speaker
Co-creator and speaker, SFU's “From Academia to Industry” podcast on internship and career guidance.
Oct 2022
Simon Fraser University
Valedictorian, SFU October 2022 convocation
Selected to deliver the graduand address at the October 2022 convocation; the address starts at 45:27where the graduand address starts in the convocation videoSource: Valedictorian address, SFU convocation, October 2022 in SFU's recording of the full ceremony.
Watch the graduand address in SFU's convocation video
Nothing loads until you ask for it.Watch on YouTubeSFU's recording of the full ceremony, opened at the address.