
About Me
Hey! My name’s Raymond and I’m an Intelligent Systems and Data Science PhD student at Brock University, in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
Positions I’ve held include:
- Data Science Developer (Ontario Ministry of Transportation)
- Research Assistant (Brock University)
- Teaching Assistant (Brock University)
- I&IT Technical Specialist Co-op (Ontario Ministry of Government & Consumer Services)
- Junior Data Science Developer Co-op (Ontario Ministry of Transportation)
I am also developing a project called White Ice Analytics where my passion for hockey and statistics come together to explore goaltending analytics with future iterations including college basketball.
My interests include predictive analysis, machine learning, sports analytics, data science and artificial intelligence.
A couple of Projects I am proud of are:
- Fitting AdaBoost Models From Imbalanced Data with Applications in College Basketball
- Combatting Imbalanced Data in Binary Classification Problems Using Alternative Loss Functions & Synthetic Data
- Using Ridge and LASSO Regression to Predict the Outcome of the 2021 March Madness College Basketball Tournament
- Using Machine Learning Methods to Predict Fake News & Exploring Vaccine Manufacturer Sentiment