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Bethia Kok

Ontario

Summary

I am a data scientist with a strong mathematical background and extensive experience with machine learning and large-scale optimization. I am passionate about turning cutting edge research methods into scalable and well-designed software and providing adept and accurate data-driven analysis.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Co-Founder

Three-line Trading
11.2018 - Current
  • Developed scalable and maintainable code, ensuring long-term stability of the software.
  • Improved software performance by identifying and resolving bottlenecks in the code.
  • Developed reusable components that significantly reduced development effort on multiple projects.

Software Engineer

UrtheCast
10.2017 - 10.2018
  • Designing, developing, and testing numerical algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) processing software and optical image processing software in an Agile paradigm
  • Applying numerical analysis, statistics, and optimization to efficiently implement, and develop new, algorithms in these areas
  • Currently developing numerical algorithms for improving image quality in Optical Imaging.

PHD Graduate Student

The University of British Columbia
09.2011 - 09.2017
  • Currently working in the Seismic Laboratory for Imaging and Modelling (SLIM), an interdisciplinary research group in Geophysics, Applied Mathematics, and large-scale optimization algorithms
  • My work is primarily focused on efficient formats for interpolating high-dimensional tensors with missing entries, largescale algorithms for composite-convex optimization, and designing a modern software framework for inverse problems constrained by partial differential equations
  • I finished my studies on September 1, 2017.

Teaching Assistant

The University of British Columbia
09.2008 - 04.2011
  • I marked assignments and exams and led lab sessions for a number of first- and second-year Mathematics and Computer Science courses, including Differential Calculus, Honors Vector Calculus, Linear Programming, Introduction to Computer Science, Logic and Discrete Mathematics, and Introduction to Software Development.

Undergraduate Research Assistant

The University of British Columbia
05.2010 - 08.2010
  • I worked in the Department of Mathematics, numerically simulating the largescale behavior of eigenvalues of the Laplacian-Beltrami operator of a specific manifold.

Undergraduate Research Assistant

The University of British Columbia
05.2009 - 08.2009
  • I worked in the Imager lab at UBC, working on a C++ implementation of a Laplacian solver and Graph-cut minimization software to develop a 'cut and paste' method for isolating objects in images and seamlessly integrating them into other images.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational and Applied Mathematics -

The University of British Columbia / UBC
01.2017

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Honors Mathematics and Computer Science -

The University of British Columbia / UBC
01.2011

Skills

  • Scientific Computing
  • Machine Learning
  • Data Analysis

Languages

English
Native language

Timeline

Co-Founder

Three-line Trading
11.2018 - Current

Software Engineer

UrtheCast
10.2017 - 10.2018

PHD Graduate Student

The University of British Columbia
09.2011 - 09.2017

Undergraduate Research Assistant

The University of British Columbia
05.2010 - 08.2010

Undergraduate Research Assistant

The University of British Columbia
05.2009 - 08.2009

Teaching Assistant

The University of British Columbia
09.2008 - 04.2011

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational and Applied Mathematics -

The University of British Columbia / UBC

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Honors Mathematics and Computer Science -

The University of British Columbia / UBC

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