from app import * from datetime import datetime def page(): # me = Image('https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53939742438_6ca1a4b3eb.jpg', alt='Nicholas Broad and his dog, Maya in Maine', caption="it'sa me", left=False, width=300) h2s = 'Hi there 👋', 'Work Experience', "Education", "Volunteering",'Hobbies' txts = [Markdown(intro), Markdown(work), Markdown(education), Markdown(volunteering), Markdown(hobbies)] secs = Sections(h2s, txts) return BstPage(0, "", *secs) birthdate = datetime(1994, 3, 18) age_in_years = (datetime.now() - birthdate).days // 365 maya_birthdate = datetime(2019, 3, 18) maya_age_in_years = (datetime.now() - maya_birthdate).days // 365 intro = f"""
I'm Nicholas Broad. I'm currently {age_in_years} years old, living in San Francisco, California. I'm an open-minded, curious, and self-motivated person who enjoys learning new things and working on interesting projects. I like to think of myself as friendly, humble, and a bit goofy. I live with my beautiful dog, Maya, who is {maya_age_in_years} years old. You can often find us at parks in SF playing fetch. Maya will almost always be wearing a bandana, as all dogs should.
Nico and Maya
""" hf_start_date = datetime(2021, 12, 6) time_at_hf = (datetime.now() - hf_start_date) years_at_hf = time_at_hf.days // 365 months_at_hf = (time_at_hf.days - years_at_hf * 365) // 30 work = f""" I am currently working at [Hugging Face](https://hf.co) as a Machine Learning Engineer. I have been there {years_at_hf} years and {months_at_hf} months as a member of the monetization team. I have helped companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Grammarly, Optum, Writer, Uber, and Liberty Mutual improve their machine learning capabilities. Prior to working at Hugging Face, I was a data scientist at GSK, where I created a search engine to make it easier to understand Medical Voice of Customer data (what the clinicians who use the products think of them). I believe in being transparent about my work journey, so I will share more than most people typically do. Here is all of my work experience since I was 16. * Machine Learning Engineer @ [Hugging Face](https://hf.co) (2021 - Present) * Member of the success team within the monetization team. * Helping enterprises and startups improve their machine learning capabilities. * This involves teaching how to use Hugging Face libraries such as transformers, accelerate, datasets, peft, trl, and diffusers. * Typical use cases: * Fine-tuning a model on a custom dataset. * Serving fine-tuned models (both LLM and non-LLMs). * Pre-training from scratch. * RAG using LLMs and embeddings. * Document understanding using vision-language models. * Curating a high-quality instruction dataset. * Manage relations with ~$2M worth of customers. * Most senior member of post-sales MLE team. * Hired 5 other team mebers. * Author on [BLOOM paper](https://huggingface.co/papers/2211.05100) for minor help with datasets. * Data Scientist @ GSK (2020 - 2021) * Created a search engine to make it easier to understand what clinicians think of the products. * Data Science Fellowship @ SharpestMinds (2019 - 2020) * Fellowship is a generous term. It was a 3-month bootcamp where I taught myself all about data science and machine learning while being mentored by an industry professional. * High School / Middle School Tutor @ AJ Tutoring (2018 - 2019) * Shared my love for physics, math, and chemistry with students in the Bay Area. * I even worked with the daughter of Google's CEO. * One of my students was in [the scandal where parents paid to get their kids into college](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varsity_Blues_scandal). * Dog Walker (2017-2019) * I ran with my neighbors dog 3 times a week for 3 years. * We did over 2000 miles together. * Image Sensor Intern @ ON Semiconductor (2017) * Quit after 5 weeks because it was a waste of my time. Unrealistic expectations, no guidance, and not much learning. * Research Assistant Internship @ Stanford University (2016) * Worked on thermionic energy harvesters. * Spent too much time in the cleanroom alone at odd hours around dangerous chemicals and tools. * Financial Manager @ [Muwekma Tah-Ruk House](https://nacc.stanford.edu/our-community/muwekma-tah-ruk-native-theme-house) (2015-2016) * Budgeted $100k for 35 students in the house for food and events. * Research Internship @ Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (2015) * Fabrication of implantable neural devices. * Research Internship @ Stanford University (2014) * Fabricating sensors that work in extreme environments. * Worked with graphene, high bandgap semiconductors, and cool equipment like scanning electron microscopes and x-ray diffraction. * Co-author on 2 papers: * [Irradiation effects of graphene-enhanced gallium nitride (GaN) metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) ultraviolet photodetectors](https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/9491/949107/Irradiation-effects-of-graphene-enhanced-gallium-nitride-GaN-metal-semiconductor/10.1117/12.2178091.short), * [Impact of gamma irradiation on GaN/sapphire surface acoustic wave resonators](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6932293) * Admin Assistant @ Stanford Graduate School of Education (2014) * Did various small tasks to help the school run smoothly. * Research Internship @ Stanford University (2013) * Worked on helping underrepresented students start learning Computer Science. * Soccer Coach @ Los Gatos Soccer (2010-2012) * Coached soccer basics for kids during the summer. """ volunteering = """All of my volunteering is tutoring. * [Lucile Packard Children's Hospital](https://med.stanford.edu/phm/clinical/lpch.html) (2013 - 2014) * Tutored kids who had been in the hospital for a long time. * [East Palo Alto Tennis and Tutoring](https://www.epatt.org/) (2019) * Tutored high school students in math and science. * [Student U](https://studentudurham.org/) (2019-2020) * Tutored high school students in math and science. """ education = """ * Coterminal M.S. in Electrical Engineering @ Stanford University (2016-2018) * Did not graduate. * Decided that I wasn't interested in the classes I was taking (physics, analog devices, signal processing, networks). * I was also sick of doing research in a cleanroom. * B.S. in Electrical Engineering @ Stanford University (2012-2016) * Focus on semiconductor device physics. * Los Gatos High School (2008-2012) * Voted "Best All Around" by senior class. * Played Varsity Soccer for 3 years. * [Captain of the Varsity Soccer Team (2011-2012).](https://www.maxpreps.com/ca/los-gatos/los-gatos-wildcats/athletes/nicky-broad/soccer/stats/?careerid=11o9q24ridm22) * [Co-MVP of the league (2012).](https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2012/03/19/broad-mason-are-league-mvps-in-soccer/) * [Honorary mention in CCS (2012).](https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2012/03/27/all-mercury-news-boys-soccer-honors/) """ hobbies = """My main hobbies are going on walks with my dog, playing soccer, doing [Kaggle competitions](https://www.kaggle.com/nbroad), reading, [photography](https://flickr.com/photos/131470140@N06/), and taiko. This last one, taiko, is probably the most interesting, though I am on a bit of a hiatus. I played taiko for 12 years, starting with [San Jose Junior Taiko](https://www.taikoconservatory.org/juniortaiko) and continuing with [Stanford Taiko](https://taiko.stanford.edu/). Here is a video of me performing in Stanford's Bing Concert Hall. """ four_sizzlin_beets = """
""" stanford_instagram_embed = """
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""" hobbies += four_sizzlin_beets + "

Stanford Instagram also featured me on their page.

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