Etienne Lee

Data Science Intern · Summer 2026

Led a cross-domain, cross-lingual Alzheimer's detection project using HuBERT and RoBERTa, reaching 0.70 balanced accuracy on a sparse, code-mixed target dataset mainly through domain adaptation and data augmentation.

Data Science Intern · Summer 2025

Built pipelines to track investment signals across 3,000+ companies and automated data syncing between platforms using Python.

Software Engineering Intern · Summer 2024

Built a browser extension and multiplayer game demo for the Neopets platform using React, TypeScript, and Node.js.

Teaching Assistant, CIS 5500: Databases · Aug 2025 – Present

TA for a graduate databases course with 200+ students. Hold office hours, mentor project groups, and write homework and exam questions.

TypeScript · React

A Chrome extension that displays a random photo from a personal collection as your new tab background, built originally for friends and family. Published on the Chrome Web Store.

React · Node.js · PostgreSQL · AWS

Interactive full-stack website for exploring marine species and ocean conditions over time, built on real oceanographic data. Designed the database for 136M rows of raw data and sped up key queries up to 4x.

C · Bash

Co-built a UNIX-like OS from scratch in C, featuring a priority scheduler, FAT filesystem, and interactive shell supporting standard UNIX commands.

Python · PyTorch · HuggingFace

Predicts whether a headline came from Fox News or NBC News. Scraped and expanded the dataset to 17.9K headlines, then fine-tuned RoBERTa and DeBERTa to reach 91.75% accuracy.