Hello, I’m Lauren! 👋🏼 Passionate about harnessing AI to make meaningful impacts, I have been involved in projects as a ML developer in the fields of finance, healthcare, transcriptomics and mining. I am currently working as a Data Engineer at Borealis AI.

In my spare time, you’ll find me catching up with the latest cinema 📽️, gushing over DIY manicures 💅🏼 and researching new restaurants 🍜.

Work/Internship Experience

  • Data Engineer, Borealis AI (RBC) (Mar 2024 - Present)
  • Data Science Intern, Rio Tinto Exploration (Apr 2023 - June 2023)
  • Graduate Academic Assistant, UBC MDS Admissions Committee (Nov 2022 - Jun 2023)

Research Experience

  • Junior Data Scientist, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute & UBC Hospital - Digital Emergency Medicine Lab (May 2021 - Sept 2022)
  • Research Intern, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health (Cembrowski Lab) (Sept 2021 - May 2022)
  • Administrative Research Assistant, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (Panenka Lab) (Aug 2020 - May 2021)

Teaching

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of British Columbia
    • CPSC 330: Applied Machine Learning (2023S)
  • Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, University of British Columbia
    • CPSC 103: Introduction to Systematic Program Design (2020S)
    • CPSC 103: Introduction to Systematic Program Design (2021W)

Education

  • Master of Data Science, University of British Columbia - Vancouver (Sept 2022 - Nov 2023)
  • Bachelor of Science in Behavioural Neuroscience, University of British Columbia - Vancouver (Sept 2017 - May 2022)

Certifications