Kai Hueske-VanCeylon

I'm a machine learning engineer at Workday, leveraging NLP to build an accessible chatbot interface for our users. I graduated magna cum laude from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2022, with a BS in Computer Science and a minor in Global Engineering. I also had the opportunity to participate in the Engineering Honors program. My particular interests are in artificial intelligence and cognitive science, and I also dabble in economics and German. In addition to my work at Workday, I also develop financial asset trading algorithms with CATFund (an algorithmic trading startup).

My Professional Profile


My Github profile
All my repos, open for perusal. Explore at your leisure.
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NLP COPA Task
Training a RoBERTa model to complete the SuperGLUE COPA task..
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TutorTaker
A web app to match students with prospective tutors.
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Me

Projects

Project Description
Financial Risk Assessment A research project in conjunction with the CU LEEDS School of Business, investigating how various forms of financial risk fluctuate over time. In the course of this project, I've collected & processed financial data using SQL and various Python libraries, and applied data science techniques like Markov models to analyze & visualize the results. The project has given me great experience working in a multidisciplinary team, and communicating across technical/nontechnical boundaries.
NLP COPA A team ML project in natural language processing. We tackled the SuperGLUE COPA (choice of plausible alternatives) task, which entails using AI to determine which of two possible sentences logically follows a given premise. We used the PyTorch and Pandas Python libraries to fine-tune pretrained embedding models (RoBERTa and DeBERTa) on data particular to this task.
Connect More A heuristic-based engine to play games. It uses an alpha-beta-pruning minimax algorithm to evaluate the current game state, and can be extended to play other turn-based games with finite state spaces. It's currently equipped to play Tic-Tac-Toe and Connect 4. Think you're smarter than a computer programmed by a few freshman CS students?
TutorTaker A web application hosted on Heroku to match students with prospective tutors. This was a collaborative effort with several software development classmates in Fall 2019, using NodeJS, EJS, PostgreSQL, and several other development tools. TutorTaker is no longer online, but the source is available on Github for the curious at heart.

Engineering Honors Portfolio

As a student in the Engineering Honors Program, I created a portfolio containing a collection of works, experiences, writings, and general thoughts during my time at CU. It contains some work relevant to who I am as a professional, but it's also intended to showcase me more personally. If this interests you, feel free to peruse at your leisure.

Other interests

In addition to computer science, I'm a passionate musician, tea fanatic, historical fencer, and aspiring language learner. I minored in Global Engineering, which entails a regional/language focus (I chose German). It also gave me the opportunity to study the EU in Brussels & Luxembourg in the summer of 2021, which was a fantastic opportunity & helped me broaden my worldview.