Dima is a Computer Science and Mathematics student in McGill University. He is driven by academic interests in artificial intelligence and applications of software engineering in natural sciences. Aside from that, Dima is passionate about entrepreneurship and venture capital.
In his free time, he loves traveling, reading, listening to podcasts, debating about politics/history/philosophy/art.
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• Working on research into partially observed reinforcement learning
• Updates are coming soon!
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• Leading the development of cognitive tests to detect and treat neurodegenerative diseases
• Developed a REST API and an admin web dashboard using Node.js and MongoDB for an effective surveying and testing of participants
• Configured Ubuntu servers using Nginx
• Worked on the sign-up process for new clients using Java Spring Boot
• Collaborated with designers on developing business critical features using Angular and Typescript in an Agile environment
• Acted as team’s scrum master and organized several technological share events for dozens of RBC employees and interns
• Volunteered to teach children coding through an online camp
• Spearheaded the development of an Intelligent Document Parser
• Designed application’s architecture and parsing algorithm; achieved parsing accuracy of 96%
• Built a REST API using Node.js, MongoDB, and React; deployed the project using Docker and Azure
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• Building a voice only social media mobile application using Flutter
• Leading the development process of the team of three
• Designed application's architecture; optimized database calls by 80% (Firestore and Firebase)
• Created a system of background processes and streams to ensure a background audio playback and data fetching
• Built an SMS messenger bot collecting information about the consumption of food in communities which suffer from malnutrition
• Worked with several professionals from NGOs to formulate and develop a prototype solution which would successfully address the problem
• Been participating in programming competitions for around past 5 years
• Got the highest provincial score in Canadian Computing Competition twice (2017,2019)
• Built a small prototype mobile cross-platform application for a food-delivery app(experimenting with Xamarin)
Present
• Early development stage; something exciting is coming here!
• Built a website displaying information about genetic features and diseases
• Built a web-scraper collecting the information from the NCBI
• Built a firework simulator which mimics the behavior of actual fireworks including their structure and materials
Here are the outlines of some other projects I have been working previously:
• WordPress custom theme together with an admin panel and custom plugins written in PHP 2018
• Class scheduler written in Javascript 2018
• AI agent playing an online game using a mini-max algorithm written in JAVA 2016
• A graduate level class covering machine learning
Class projects:
• Image classifier
• Text classifier
• Implementations of basic machine learning models
• An interesting class covering how humans perceive the real world through their eyes and ears
• It analyzes behind the scenes processes in our brain and how we can mimic them in software development
Auditing
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• A graduate level class teaching how to apply machine learning algorithms on solving real-world problems
Auditing
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• Listening to an online course made by BLOCKCHAIN AT BERKELEY. Always wanted to learn more about the topic
Most likely will do more research/little projects on the side to better understand the field
• Class covering multiple areas related to artificial intelligence starting with simple A* and ending with reinforcement learning
• Final project consisted of writing an AI agent playing a game called Saboteur
Present
• A graduate level class covering the applications of software development in natural sciences
• Final project: coming soon!
• Competitive Programming (Fall 2020)
• Functional Programming (Fall 2020)
• Honors Algorithms and Data structures (Winter 2020)
• Introduction to Computer Science (Fall 2019)
• Introduction to Software Systems (Fall 2019)
• Coordinated a team of over 40 editors and writers
• Set the general direction of the paper
Been participating in a lot of mathematics competition over the years; here a few of them:
• Canadian Math Olympiad Qualifier 2018
• Michel-Girard prize in 2017 and 2019 (Awarded to the winner of the Math competition organized by Quebec Mathematical Association)
• AIME qualifier
• Did various small various projects related to design in photo-editing and 3D modelling
• Modeled renders for the Polish satellite PW-sat 2 in 2014(link is below)
• Co-founded a political club
• Organized several events with members of parliament and a Canadian Minister
• Participated in several debate, business case, Model United Nations competitions and won several awards
• Was a member of my school's international delegation for Harvard WorldMun 2019
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