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    You can also check my \href{https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2RtnNKEAAAAJ&hl=en}{Google Scholar profile}
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    for an updated list of my publications. 
    Note: an asterisk (*) denotes equal or major contributions.
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%   \textbf{\href{http://sourabhbajaj.com/}{\Large Sourabh Bajaj}} & Email : \href{mailto:sourabh@sourabhbajaj.com}{sourabh@sourabhbajaj.com}\\
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  \textbf{\Huge \scshape Lester James V. Miranda} \\ \vspace{1pt}
  \href{mailto:ljvmiranda@gmail.com}{\underline{ljvmiranda@gmail.com}} $|$
  \href{https://github.com/ljvmiranda921}{\underline{github.com/ljvmiranda921}} $|$
  \href{https://ljvmiranda921.github.io}{\underline{ljvmiranda921.github.io}}
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\section{Experience}
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{Allen Institute for AI}{2023 -- Present}
{Predoctoral Young Investigator}{Seattle, WA}
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\resumeItem{Conducts research broadly in LLM post-training and alignment, such as preference annotation (\textsc{MultiPref}), reward model evaluation (\textsc{RewardBench}), and fully open-source post-training recipes (\textsc{T\"ulu 3}, \textsc{OLMo 2}).}
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{Explosion GmbH}{2021 -- 2023}
{Machine Learning Engineer, spaCy Team}{Berlin, DE}
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\resumeItem{Authored a technical paper on benchmarking spaCy's hash-embedding trick on span categorization and NER.}
\resumeItem{Developed human-in-the-loop and LLM annotation workflows for Prodigy, our data annotation product.}
\resumeItem{Built several open-source NLP tools such as \href{https://github.com/explosion/spacy-llm}{spacy-llm} (production LLM pipelines), \href{https://github.com/explosion/vscode-prodigy}{vscode-prodigy} (VSCode extension for data annotation), and \href{https://github.com/explosion/projects}{spaCy projects} (end-to-end NLP workflows for production).}
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{Thinking Machines Data Science}{2018 -- 2021}
{Machine Learning Researcher}{Metro Manila, PH}
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\resumeItem{Developed several production-grade NLP applications for a major investment firm in Singapore.}
\resumeItem{Led a team in a large-scale digitization project of government financial statements for The World Bank.}
\resumeItem{Led an internal team of six in document processing initiatives to improve our Document AI product.}
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{Preferred Networks}{2018}
{Research Intern}{Tokyo, JP}
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\resumeItem{Project: Implementing a parallelization feature for ChainerRL to support efficient batch Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) and Advantage Actor Critic (A2C) for reinforcement learning.}
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{Waseda University}{2016 -- 2018}
{M.Eng. Information Architecture, Neurocomputing Systems Laboratory}{Fukuoka, JP}
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\resumeItem{Thesis: Autoencoder-based Feature Extraction Techniques for Protein Function Prediction}
\resumeItem{Monbukagakusho (MEXT) Japanese Government Scholarship}
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{Ateneo de Manila University}{2011 -- 2016}
{B.S. Electronics and Communications Engineering, Minor in Philosophy}{Metro Manila, PH}
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\resumeItem{Thesis: Appliance Recognition using Hall-Effect Current Sensors for Power Management Systems}
\resumeItem{Cum Laude, Department of Science \& Technology SEI Merit Scholarship, Ateneo College Scholarship}
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{\textbf{calamanCy} $|$ \url{https://github.com/ljvmiranda921/calamanCy}}{2023}
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\resumeItem{Natural language processing toolkit for building Tagalog pipelines based on spaCy.}
\resumeItem{Software paper was published in the NLP-OSS workshop at EMNLP `23.}
\resumeItem{Associated NER dataset was published in the SEALP workshop at IJCNLP-AACL `23.}
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{\textbf{PySwarms} $|$ \url{https://github.com/ljvmiranda921/pyswarms}}{2018}
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\resumeItem{Python-based framework for implementing swarm optimization algorithms.}
\resumeItem{Software paper was published in the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS).}
\resumeItem{Has over 1k+ GitHub stars and used by over 300 repositories and packages.}
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\section{Invited Talks}
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{\textbf{Artisanal Filipino Resources in the Age of LLMs} $|$ \emph{De la Salle University - Manila}}{2024}
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{\textbf{Labeling with LLMs} $|$ \emph{University of North Carolina - Charlotte}}{2024}
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{\textbf{Geospatial Data at Scale with Geomancer} $|$ \emph{Databeers Manila, Google Developer Group Conference}}{2019}
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