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.