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Senior Data Scientist — NRG Energy Nov 2025 — present
Houston, TX
- Ownership of fraud and bad debt detection + mitigation products.
- Serving as fraud subject matter expert across the organization.
Data Scientist — NRG Energy Apr 2022 — Nov 2025
Houston, TX
- Developed multiple end-to-end ML models for fraud prediction and mitigation, including novel realtime fraud detection via API — saving over $10MM annually.
- Honored with the Innovation "Game Changer" Award out of 300 total nominees.
- Conducted analyses and advised business on fraud mitigation strategies in an adversarial environment.
- Leveraged payment and credit data to advise new fraud and customer acquisition strategies.
- Utilized causal analysis to determine effectiveness of credit policy and deposit strategy.
- Used PySpark, Databricks, and Azure DevOps to build models and conduct analyses.
Data Science Intern — Chevron Jun — Aug 2019
Houston, TX
- Wrote scripts for automatic data science model deployment to Microsoft Azure cloud.
- Improved performance of on-site server cluster by deep analysis of local queries.
Software Engineer & Data Science Intern — Rakuten Inc. Jun — Dec 2018
Tokyo, Japan
- Worked on data science projects related to fraud detection, prophet forecasting, and budget automation.
- Created a UI to display relevant KPIs in a new ecosystem.
Summer Research Intern — VR Tactile Feedback Device — Tokyo Institute of Technology Summer 2017
Tokyo, Japan
- Created a device to provide more realistic tactile feedback in VR using Arduino.
education
M.E.E. — Master's in Data Science (Electrical Engineering)
May 2021 Rice University · GPA: 3.93 / 4.0
B.S. — Electrical Engineering
Dec 2018 Rice University
skills
Python Advanced
SQL Advanced
PySpark Advanced
Machine Learning Proficient
Fraud Mitigation Proficient
Azure DevOps Proficient
LaTeX Intermediate
R Intermediate
Japanese Intermediate (N3)
honors & activities
Winter 2026
Innovation "Game Changer" Award — NRG Energy
Selected out of 300 nominees for NRG's first realtime risk mitigation ML model.
Winter 2017
Japanese Language Proficiency Test — N3 Certificate
Summer 2016
Center for Language and Intercultural Communication
Studied Japanese at Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan.
Fall 2013
Eagle Scout