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I am Edgar Cuevas.
I am a UIUC alum, data scientist, and software engineer.

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A Chicagoland based hipster wishing to live a life of software engineering.

Hello!

My name is Edgar Cuevas. I am a proud Mexican-American software engineer and data scientist hoping to change the world one line of code at a time. Aside from programming, I love to read philosophy research papers and books on topics of morality, ethics, and metaphysics. In my free time, you can catch me hiking with my dog Scooby, while capturing some great nature shots using my Canon M50. I love working directly with non-profits (via volunteering and/or fundraising) to help social issues that are important to me. Feel free to reach out if you are interested in discussing programming and/or philosophy.

I've Got Some skills.

  • 100%
    Python
  • 100%
    HTML5
  • 100%
    CSS
  • 100%
    JS
  • 95%
    Angular JS
  • 90%
    Java
  • 90%
    C++

My Work Experience.

Summer 2020

MapTitan

Business Development Intern

• Worked Directly with CEO to develop an advanced predictive algorithm to match users to the best city meeting their preferences
• Assessed potential business impact of potential features under consideration

Spring 2020

Corteva Agriscience

Software Engineering Intern

• Using Java and MATLAB to be able to create a QSAR model prediction application to evaluate assessment of physicochemical properties, toxicological endpoints, and environmental fate of SMILES structures.

Fall 2019

Corteva Agriscience

Machine Learning Engineer

• Developing rapid model creation in Python using Pandas, Numpy, SciKit-Learn for data visualization of molecule structure information
• Utilizing web scraping techniques to extract and organize data collected from vendors
• Participating in monthly meetings with Data Science and Predictive Safety Center research scientists, provided information on the progress of project.

Summer 2019

Corteva Agriscience

Data Science Intern

• Collaborated closely with the Data Science group to develop a Python script for the automated creation of a Natural Products database
• Collected, studied, and interpreted large datasets; conducted reports; performed accurate, successful data management.

Fall 2018 - Summer 2019

Voice and Speech Rehabilitation Research Lab (UIUC)

Lead Software Engineer

• Collaborate closely with the primary investigator, Dr. Keiko Ishikawa, to implement CS, and ECE topics for interdisciplinary research useful for speech-language pathologists and engineers
• Developed a Crowdsourcing application (Flask-based) for usage in Audio Quality Evaluation to provide a fast, and affordable tool for any audio assessments through AWS Mechanical Turk
• Worked on research that required the development of an ideal binary mask algorithm using SciPy libraries to evaluate the effectiveness of signal processing techniques on patients with voice disorders using SAR(Sources to Artifacts Ratios) , SDR (Signal to Distortion Ratios), SIR (Source to Interference Ratios) as metrics of measurements
• Developed a Python-based audio speech recognition algorithm to detect speech intelligibility of patients with voice disorders allowing for the removal of any human bias upon evaluation

Summer 2018

DialogueDirect

Professional Fundraiser (Sales)

• Worked with a team of activists to inform the public of the ASPCA and The Nature Conservatory
• Collected funds for the ASPCA and The Nature Conservatory

Summer 2017

Human Rights Campaign

Field Manager

Managed the Chicago summer canvassing branch team of up to 70 individuals. Worked to build awareness about Equality Act legislation and collectively raised over half a million dollars in under two months. Recognized for achievements as Team Manager before being recommended for the position of branch Director.
• Responsible for intelligently delegating and supervising consistent assignment completion as leader of the task force.
• Charged with tracking individual financial information in addition to meticulously adhering to proper procedure, even accounting for alterations to such whilst traveling out of state.
• Invariably able to support and rally members of the team, the results of which included breaking several top performing records. Records that had previously been sustained not only regionally, but nationally.
• Individual performance likewise remained dependably high for the entirety of employment, and as a top achiever two unique promotions were offered over the course of just two months

Community Commitment

See My Activities.

Learn more about the organizations that I am part of

Flor Fest

A local charity music festival that I founded

A local charity music festival that I founded to provide funds for the local LGBTQ+ center (UP Center of Champaign County) Read about it here: http://www.news-gazette.com/arts-entertainment/local/2019-03-31/franks-weekend-faves-march-31-2019.html

Flor Poetry

President & Founder

Founded a poetry organization that focuses on developing creative writer's poetry... Read more about it: http://florpoetry.com/

Planned Parenthood Generation Action

Vice-President, Social Media Manager, & Co-Founder

Design and establish university campaigns focused on reproductive rights with the executive board
Develop meeting presentations on various sexual health and policy topics

Delta Sigma Phi

Secretary

Became secretary of fraternity the semester after rushing

International Illini

Treasurer

Managing all the financial status of International Illini, a group of students that welcome international students to the University of Illinois, while mantaining their social media presence.

LGBTQ+ Roundtable

Reprensentative

Active in bi-weekly meetings discussing LGBTQ+ activities on campus and/or any political work needed to further improve the lives of LGBTQ+ members.

What People Say.

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We were as surprised as everyone else to read the news that Flor fest, a brand new music festival exclusively showcasing Illinois bands and run by University of Illinois students, is donating their first year's profits to support the programs at The UP Center. We want to thank Edgar Cuevas, flor poetry, and the entire Flor Fest team for thinking of the LGBTQ+ community while devoting themselves to everything else it takes to plan a music festival.

William President, The UP Center of Champaign County
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Cuevas originally had the idea for the festival less than three months ago and began designing the festival. He quickly helped recruit over 20 artists and bands from across Illinois to perform.

Sarah O'Beirne Staff Writer, Daily Illini
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And here's a first — quite literally. Edgar Cuevas, president and co-founder of Flor Fest, has 22 musical acts from across Illinois lined up to play at this Friday's event at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, 202 S. Broadway Ave., U. Currently booked are Today's Children, The Telephone Junkies, Wes Harmony, Ex Cathedra, Lost Wilderness, Silent Generation, Feed The Monkeys, Jake Fava, Warm Darn, Kiddsoul, Tarun Mahajan, This is A Stick Up!, Boxout, Alien Thing, Clockwork Owl, Dani Avila, From Circumstances, Ben Cheslow, Anika Emily and Kathleen Dowling.

Frank PieperStaff Writer, The News Gazette
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Different Internship Positions

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Cups of Coffee

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Research Projects Completed

2

Fields of Study (PHIL & CS)

Contact

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Phone

Phone: (773) 727 9507

Professional Email

ecueva5@illinois.edu

Personal E-mail

edgarxcuevas@gmail.com