Catherine Lee
Machine Learning Engineer & Software Engineer & Hobbyist Researcher
About
I am passionate about working across the software stack, with expertise in machine learning and distributed systems. In addition to my technical work, I actively engage in research, dedicating my free time to studying the latest advancements in machine learning and contributing to open-source machine learning projects. On any given day, you'll likely find me fitting models on my RTX 3090, eventually resorting to cloud compute--all while wearing a shirt that showcases the Chinchilla Scaling Laws.
Work Experience
Amazon
Software Engineer, Machine Learning
Working on the software engineering and machine learning side at Amazon Prime Video Recommendations.
Lamini AI
Machine Learning Engineer
Building the LLM platform for engineers to use customized, private models for their data. Building the training and finetuning abilities underneath, for better performing models compared to general-purpose LLMs.
Software Engineer
YouTube Ads Creative Optimization.
Snapchat
Software Engineer, Machine Learning Intern
Vision Transformers on the Perception team.
Adobe
Machine Learning Intern
Explored multi-arm bandit algorithms for content recommendation (collaborative contextual bandits) such as LinUCB for personalization and used GloVe embeddings for queries.
Amazon
Software Engineer Intern
Built fullstack application in Java using microservices, API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Kinesis, Cloudformation, DynamoDB, S3, CQRS, Event Sourcing, and Dependency Injection. Created a reactive dashboard to monitor the statuses of individual contract workflows with Javascript (SvelteJS).
Education
Stanford University
University of California, San Diego
Skills
Projects
Virtual Try On
Virtual Try On Application using Diffusion.
PictRNNary
Pictionary using a Recurrent Neural Network to generate sketches.
Machine Learning Reading Group
I host a casual ML reading group with friends.
Fraud Detection
Predicting whether a user will download an app after clicking a mobile app advertisement.
Barcelona Prediction
Predicting accidents or air pollution with Barcelona dataset.