Hey, Irene here :)

I’m a fourth year Software Engineering student at the University of Waterloo.

My current research interests are at the intersection of information retrieval (IR) and ML/RL — feel free to peek at my publications tab.

Outside of writing software, hobbies include martial arts, aerial arts and board game nights, and writing introspective newsletter drafts.

Some interesting things I've worked on:

• implemented a retraining framework at Affirm for people-first BNPL models models predicting take-up rates
• engineered and benchmarked multimodal IR pooling solutions at Facebook (FAIAR) on AI Integrity
• designed RL solutions for classifying 15+% of the Internet’s requests for bot mitigation at Cloudflare
• built, trained and benchmarked ML models for explainability/optimization, “AI building AI”-style at DarwinAI
• implemented static container security scanning tools for Titanium Cloud at Wind River

Always down to grab coffee or boba! I feel strongly about mental wellness and existential contentment; please feel free to reach out if you’re in need of a listening ear.