I am an Electronics Engineering graduate from the Philippines. Greatly interested in Deep Learning and its applications. A graduate of Udacity's Deep Learning Nanodegree. Lucky to be chosen as one of the 300 Spartans of the Pytorch Udacity Scholarship. I am currently experimenting with deploying Deep Learning models to web applications. Actively looking for opportunities in the field of Deep Learning and AI.
May 2017 - May 2019
Works as operational support for the PLM team of a consumer goods company:
January 2015 - April 2015
Trained at Philippine Airlines as Systems Support Personnel. Assisted in responding to tickets and incidents concerning the networking and systems equipment under the Pasay Base Complex.
2010 - 2016
B.S. Electronics Engineering
Studied Electronic Systems design, Wireless Communications, Broadcasting and Data Communication. Thesis paper on Wireless Charging System for KILOBOTs. The thesis aimed to provide a working charging platform for the small swarm robots for recharging on long persistence missions.
February 2019 - May 2019
Completed the Pytorch Deep Learning Nanodegree on a full scholarship. Built Deep Learning projects on PyTorch. Gained experience in deploying a production-ready model via Amazon SageMaker.
November 2018 - January 2019
A competitive program focusing on Deep Learning models for PyTorch. One of 300 scholars chosen out of 10,000 challengers for a scholarship to a Nanodegree program sponsored by Facebook.
Volunteer student mentor in the later portion of the challenge to help another co-challenger complete the program and answer questions on the materials.
July 2018 - October 2018
Enrolled in Udacity's Deep Learning Nanodegree. Got introduced to Neural Networks and its current applications. Finished projects like Bike-sharing demand forecasting, Dog-breed classification, TV script generation, Random Face generation. Also got introduced to Deep Reinforcement Learning and created a control system for a Quadcopter using RL.
Take a look at some projects that I have worked on during the past year. Most of these were projects I have created under the Deep Learning Nanodegree from Udacity. Some of these are pet projects that I have done to reinforce some concepts I have learned so far.
This was my entry for Grab's AI for S.E.A. challenge. This repository includes the notebooks and notes on the challenge approach. Selected as one of the Top 10 entries for the competition. Used and ensemble of SARIMA and LSTM, though a Random Forest Regressor, for the forecasting model . Pandas and Matplotlib were used for the data exploration.
Trained a text classifier to predict the sentiment based on the input text. Using spaCy, I have created a lightweight model that can classify a text as either positive or negative. This was trained using the IMDB review dataset. Want to check a simple demo? Click on the icon above.
What I have done was to implement a Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG) model as a controller for a quadcopter. The objective I chose was for the agent to move and hover to a position defined. I have created a reward function that accounts for the velocity and relative distance between the agent and the objective.
A fork on the implementation of the paper Super SloMo: High-Quality Estimation of Multiple Intermediate Frames for Video Interpolation. The model in this script can convert video inputs into multiple interpolated frame outputs which can then be compressed into framerates to make the output appear slow-moving or increase the output framerate from the original.
The goal of this project is to showcase what we have learned in the first phase of the challenge which covered an introduction to PyTorch, PyTorch basics and the different deep learning models with coding in PyTorch. For this project, we are asked to create a classifier model that would be able to output the predicted category of a flower among 102 categories.
This project is an implementation of an RNN that can continue creating a script based on the original input text. The sample script for this project is on a scene from The Simpsons series. The generated text showed some unusual results and made a scene that appeared to have continuity from the original script.
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