Overview

Welcome to my website! My name is Laura Pak, and I am an honors computer science student at the University of Texas at Dallas, and my passion is machine learning with a side of app development. I believe the most important skill you can cultivate is applied communication--being able to take in other people's ideas while conveying your own.

After I graduate in May, I hope to start work immediately in software engineering and app development. Once I settle in with a few years of experience, though, I'd like to take classes on the side for a masters in machine learning and/or artificial intelligence, hopefully with a focus on natural language processing.


Skills and Technologies

Python3

Java

C++

JavaScript

R

SQL

HTML

CSS

React Native

nltk

scikit-learn

Maven

Spring Boot

Thymeleaf

Agile

vim

bash


Experience

JP Morgan Chase & Co. | Software Engineer Intern

• Worked on an Agile team to visualize employee performance in a responsive online dashboard built with Java Spring Boot web application hosted in the cloud

• Application dynamically pulled data daily from MSSQL databases, normalized the data, stored it in a database created for the application, and visualized data using amCharts JS

• Projected to save two hours a month per manager across branches of JPMC and increase agent efficiency

Univeristy of Texas at Dallas | NLP Research Assistant

• Cleaned data for Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithm training

• Reviewed and edited doctorate-level research papers by cleaning transference from PDF to Word, recreating graphs and tables, and correcting grammar and spelling