Hello, I'm Tim

A recent CS grad from UofWaterloo, passionate about machine learning and software engineering.

Education

University of Waterloo

Honours Bachelor of Computer Science (Distinction)

September 2020 ~ December 2024

Relevant Coursework:
  • Data Structures & Algorithms (CS 341)
  • Application Development (CS 346)
  • User Interfaces (CS 349)
  • Operating Systems (CS 350)
  • Numerical Computation (CS 370)
  • Human-Computer Interaction (CS 449)
  • Introduction to Machine Learning (CS 480)
  • Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (CS 486)
  • Mathematical Statistics (STAT 330)

Work Experience

  • Cohere 📍

    Member of Technical Staff | January 2025 ~ Present

  • Cohere

    Software Engineer Intern | Fall 2023 & Winter 2024

  • Ecobee

    Software Engineer Intern | Summer 2023

  • BDO

    Data Engineer Intern | Fall 2022

  • NPX

    Machine Learning Engineer Intern | Spring 2022

  • Transport Canada

    Data Science Intern | Summer 2021

Research

Aya Expanse: Combining Research Breakthroughs for a New Multilingual Frontier[View Paper]

Co-author for Cohere’s Aya Expanse model family (8B & 32B parameters), achieving state-of-the-art multilingual performance. Helped prepare large-scale datasets for different data-mixture experiments.