COMPUTER SCIENCE

My first step into the world of computer science, like many others, was coding. At first, I took a Python course in middle school, although, like many of the things I did in middle school, it didn't stick in my brain. It was a simple, week-long course where we went over the basics, and when the course ended, I forgot all of it. However, in the summer of 2023, as part of my internship with Cogo Labs, I took the Udemy course, Full Python Bootcamp by Jose Portilla, which I got a certificate of completion for as you can see above. I went through the equivalent of over a year of a college course within a couple of weeks, and although it was a lot of information to process, I was able to gain an intermediate understanding of the execution and intuition of Python coding.

Like I said before, in the summer of  2023, I interned at Cogo Labs, an incubator company in Cambridge. At Cogo Labs, I learned Python, but I also learned the basics of artificial intelligence through a course called Deep Learning A-Z by Kiril Eremenko. I got my certificate of completion, as you can see above. I learned about different types of neural networks. I attended their national CSAIL conference in 2023 where I got to hear the world leaders in AI talk about the future of the field and what they're doing to make that future closer. There's a picture of me at the event below. Although it was hard, complicated work, I managed to get through the course and was able to learn enough to build a couple of projects, which was a fun way to synthesize my learning. In the summer of 2024, I went back to Cogo Labs and learned front-end coding like HTML and JavaScript to gain the ability to deploy the AI-powered projects I had been working on for the past two years. Although it is an internship, I am getting paid, unlike most internships. At Cogo Labs, I've created a trash v.s. compost CNN, a custom chatbot for this very website, and an idea for my own company called Inherent AI, which you can read more about below. On top of that, I helped out another group of interns as they created a game called Prompt Master, which you can also access below as soon as it goes live.