Data Engineering Intern
Guardian Life
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Shipped a PySpark CDC utility and a row-level quarantine framework to production, and built the backend for an LLM reporting service that generated executive decks.
Kerwyn Jean
Experience
AI/ML Cornell Tech Fellow
Break Through Tech
– Present
Cornell Tech ML curriculum plus LLM application work in Python, continuing into a sponsored AI Studio project.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Fordham University
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Designed a Neo4j graph schema with Columbia's BioNet Group and exposed it through a FastAPI GraphQL service.
Data Analyst Researcher
Wildlife Conservation Society
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Built Python ETL pipelines over 300k+ ecological records and presented at the Bronx Science Consortium Poster Symposium.
Teaching Assistant for Information & Data Management (CISC 2500)
Fordham University
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Ran office hours and graded Python, pandas, and NumPy work for an undergraduate data management course.
Data Field Researcher
Wildlife Conservation Society
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Mentored four high school researchers in urban ecology and presented our poster at the NYCSRM Symposium at AMNH.
INSTEP Program Mentor
Fordham University
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Mentored over 20 high school students through one-on-one advising and enrichment sessions on the transition to college.
STEP Tutor Counselor
Fordham University
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Taught math, computer science, and financial literacy to 100+ students, with workshops on study strategies and time management.
CSTEP Summer Scholar
Fordham University
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Four-week residential cohort of 24 students condensing Fordham's Faith and Critical Reasoning core course.
Stocker
Brooklyn Public Library
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Shelved books and restocked supplies at a Brooklyn Public Library branch through freshman year of high school.
Projects
Airbnb Superhost Classifier
Break Through Tech
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Logistic regression predicting superhost status, tuned with GridSearchCV to 0.82 ROC AUC on held-out data.
Urban Arthropod Abundance Modeling
Wildlife Conservation Society
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Modeled fly and spider abundance against temperature, air quality, and season in Bronx field data using scikit-learn.
Education
Master of Science - MS
Fordham University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Fordham's 4+1 accelerated program, completing the MS in Data Science alongside the BS in Computer Science.
Bachelor of Science - BS
Fordham University
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Dean's List, with coursework across data mining, machine learning, databases, and operating systems.
Certifications & awards
Machine Learning Foundations
eCornell (Cornell University)
Cornell Tech certificate covering supervised learning, model evaluation, and a neural network capstone.
Dean's List
Fordham University
Awarded Spring 2024, Spring 2025, and Fall 2025.
Riversville Foundation Scholarship
Fordham University
Renewable scholarship supporting the BS in Computer Science and continuing through the MS in Data Science.
CSTEP Scholarship
Fordham University
Academic scholarship endowed by a Fordham alumna and her husband, awarded through CSTEP.
Fordham Jogues Scholarship
Fordham University
Merit scholarship awarded on entry for academic performance and leadership.