Life updates

I have started my first postgrad role as a Machine Learning Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, the largest cybersecurity company in the world.

I graduated from the Graduate School of Duke University receiving my M.S. in Computer Engineering. I was the youngest person to graduate in my program and the only African-American. I did my final master's exam on my solo research project: "Guided Sheet Music Generation from Text Descriptions using Latent Diffusion"

I finally concluded my fifth and final internship of my academic career and leading into my professional career. In total, I had:

• 5 total internships
• 3 different total teams
• 2 different companies (4 internships at Splunk and 1 at LinkedIn)
• 2 "roles" (Data Scienist and Software Engineer)

I completed Duke's University's undergraduate program in the Pratt School of Engineering. In graduating, I received a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.S.E. in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a machine learning focus.

I started my first ever internship (and job) at Linkedin. My role is Data Scientist and I am on the LinkedIn Marketing Solutions (LMS) team. The office I am working out of is the Chicago, Illinois office (because of covid remote/hybrid decisions).

I entered my second hackathon and won awards for the second year in a row. The awards we ended up winning were the best project in the Environment and Energy Track and the Accenture Let There Be Change Award. The devpost listing can be found here.

I entered my first ever hackathon just 3/4 months after beginning to learn how to code. We ended up winning mutliple awards, the Best Education Track Hack and the Wolfram Award. You can find the devpost listing here.

I graduated from NCSSM today. It was a walk through graduation because of Covid-19. Each person had their own time slot and everyone ahd to do social distancing