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Maeda
AI Researcher, CS PhD
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Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science

New York University - Tandon School of Engineering, 2015-2020
Dissertation

B.S. in Computer Science

Southern Connecticut State University, 2010-2012
  • Cum Laude
  • Other institutions: University of New Haven (2009), Gateway Community College (2008-2009)

Work Experience

Research Scientist

IBM Research, San Jose, California, April 2021 to July 2025

React Native Developer

DS Luxury, Chicago, Illinois, Spring 2021

Artificial Intelligence Research Intern

Remote Internship at Center of Innovation and Security Solutions, Lockheed Martin, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Summer 2020

Ph.D. Research Intern

IBM Research Almaden, San Jose, California, Summer 2015 & 2017

Teaching Assistant

Computer Science Department, New York University Abu Dhabi, Spring 2017
  • CS-AD390 Capstone Data Extraction

Graduate Student Research Assistant

Design Technology Lab, New York University Abu Dhabi, 2014-2020

Graduate Student Teaching and Research Assistant

Computer Science Department, Southern Connecticut State University, Fall 2013 - Spring 2014
  • Courses: CSC321 Algorithm Design and Analysis, CSC152 Java Programming I, CSC310 Multimedia Systems, CSC200 Information Management and Productivity Software

Awards

  • 2022 Outstanding Technical Achievement Award. SLEUTH: Enabling Subject Matter Experts to Build Custom NLP Models. IBM Research.
  • New York University Abu Dhabi Global Ph.D. Student Fellowship. Stipend and tuition scholarship with a research assistantship. 2015-2020. New York and Abu Dhabi.
  • Cum Laude Award. Computer Science. Fall 2012. Honors Convocation, Southern Connecticut State University.
  • Academic Excellency Award in Computer Science. Spring 2012. Honors Convocation, Southern Connecticut State University.
  • Distinguished Scholar Awards ($12,000 scholarship). Fall 2009. University of New Haven.

Skills

Data and AI
PyTorch
TensorFlow
SQL
ETL
Programming Languages
Java
Python
Full-Stack Web Programming
JavaScript
Node.js
React
Angular
REST APIs

Talks

"Watson Orders: Human-in-the-loop approach for error discovery in conversational AI systems" Fall 2023. IBM Research.
"Pattern Induction: Enabling Business Users to Extract Texts with Highlighted Examples" Fall 2022. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, MGMT 2100: Statistical Methods.
"Enterprise Information Extraction (IE): Inducing Declarative IE Extractors" Spring 2022. University of California, Santa Cruz, Natural language processing 203.
"PhD Defense: Human-in-the-Loop Tools for Constructing and Debugging Data Extraction Pipelines" Spring 2020. New York University Abu Dhabi.
Slides
"Tackling Challenges in Data Extraction Pipelines: Intuitive Interfaces, User Collaboration, and Error Explanations" Fall 2019. New York University Abu Dhabi.
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"Program by Demonstration using Version Space Algebra" Fall 2016. New York University Abu Dhabi.
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"Handwritten Recognition using Neural Networks in Java" Fall 2011. CSC 481 Artificial Intelligence and CSC400 Computer Science Seminar, Southern Connecticut State University.
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Media

"Teenager Due to Graduate from SCSU this Year" Southern News 2012.
Link
"13-Year-Old Conn. Muslim Headed to University" Fox News 2009.
Video
"Girl, 13, will study full time at UNH" New Haven Register 2009.
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