Austin Choi

Experience

1. Data Scientist

   Deloitte

   Jul 2021 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US

   deployed AWS chatbots with machine learning services like sagemaker, LLMs and Bedrock to automate simple tasks for government clients reducing hour long call wait times and optimizing production costs - Implemented a data solution using Power BI, Python, and Excel VBA for a special forces military client on Fort Bragg timelines, KPIs, and indicators to address and prevent future personnel churn issues. Churn fell from an average of 30% to 20%- Designed data warehousing solutions like Snowflake or DataBricks to enable nearly $10M in total savings and value creation for various clients, particularly from accelerated time to market- Authored SOWs, RFPs and commercialization plans for quantum technologies and AI/ML sales pursuits for public/private clients- Assisted work on Nvidia DGX clusters to implement quantum neural networks with cuQuantum to demonstrate a hybrid neural network for image recognition using a quantum layer as the final output layer- Designed Generative AI prototypes using open source LLMs and services like AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, Databricks and Huggingface. Some examples include RAG chatbots, summarizes and code review bots. Llama-2, MPT, Dolly and GPT were all used to fit various use case requirements

Education

• The University of Chicago

  Study Abroad for Chinese, Chinese

  2016 — 2016

• Washington and Lee University

  Bachelor’s Degree, Buisness Administration and East Asian Languages and Literature. Computer Science minor

  2014 — 2018