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Computer Science PhD and past UC machine learning instructor, postdoc
Robin Y.

68 hours tutoring

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Robin Y.'s Photo

Computer Science PhD and past UC machine learning instructor, postdoc
Computer Science PhD and past UC machine learning instructor, postdoc
Robin Y.

68 hours tutoring

Your first lesson is backed by our Good Fit Guarantee

68 hours tutoring

Your first lesson is backed by our Good Fit Guarantee

About Robin


Bio

Hi! My name is Robin. I have PhD and MS graduate degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. In my university and postdoc research at LLNL I published dozens of papers and developed many frameworks in the fields of Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision (including image classification and object detection), and/or Data Science. Some of the main Python libraries I used for these were Pytorch, Tensorflow, Sklearn, Numpy, Pandas, and OpenCV. I am more than happy to help...

Hi! My name is Robin. I have PhD and MS graduate degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. In my university and postdoc research at LLNL I published dozens of papers and developed many frameworks in the fields of Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision (including image classification and object detection), and/or Data Science. Some of the main Python libraries I used for these were Pytorch, Tensorflow, Sklearn, Numpy, Pandas, and OpenCV. I am more than happy to help with anything related to these fields/libraries (eg. introductory NLP).

I also have significant teaching experience. I've taught 2 official full machine learning courses at UC Davis, where I created/taught all lessons/materials on my own (and I can share with you). These were re-used by the new professor who taught the course after me. Besides that, I was employed as a Teaching Assistant throughout the rest of grad school and taught full weekly lab and discussion sessions. I was both a university and private tutor throughout undergrad, as well.

I am very passionate about education, and I have always wanted to help students like you. I even created my own website to help myself/others learn and/or prove real-life software skills. To do this, I talked to and interviewed hundreds of employees of tech companies to re-create many of their real-life company software assignments for students to do and learn themselves. I also have mastered hundreds of Python LeetCode problems so I can help give you mock interviews and/or prepare for tech industry jobs and interviews.

I also personally learned best in an individualized online setting and understand that every student has a unique learning style. Therefore, I'd love to help create personalized lessons on your topic of choice! Let's work together to help you achieve your educational goals!


Education

CSULB
Electrical Engineering, Computer Science
UC Davis
PhD
UC Davis
Masters

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Computer

Computer Engineering,

Computer Engineering

I earned a bachelors and masters in Electrical/Computer Engineering. I wrote many computer frameworks used by my organizations and universities. I also published many peer-reviewed papers in the field.
Computer Science,

Computer Science

I earned a PhD in Computer Science UC Davis specializing in Computer Vision and Deep Learning. I have 10+ Years of tutoring, teaching assisting, teaching experience, throughout college and even fully instructed the Machine Learning undergraduate course. I am also currently employed as a Machine Learning Engineer at a world famous national laboratory.
Data Science,

Data Science

Coauthored multiple papers/books on data science (eg. big data) during my PhD work, as data science is a core discipline for my machine learning specialization. My PhD advisor was a famous programmer statistician who authored many books in data science. I know the R language (used for data science) and used it for many years. I also was a teaching assistant for the "statistics for computer science" course for years in grad school.
Python

Python

I formerly taught computer science in Python to UC Davis undergraduates, and have written many lecture notes on Python. Ive developed and co-developed numerous libraries in Python used in my peer-reviewed computer science publications and/or used by large organizations/companies Ive worked for. Ive also completed hundreds of medium-hard Python LeetCode problems.

Science

Computer Engineering

Computer Engineering

I earned a bachelors and masters in Electrical/Computer Engineering. I wrote many computer frameworks used by my organizations and universities. I also published many peer-reviewed papers in the field.

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Amazing Tutor

Robin is an amazing tutor. She's teaching me python and is very good at explaining all the details of this computer language and is thankfully very understanding and patient when I need to go over something again. I'm glad I chose her and feel she's helping put me on the right track in learning to code.

Brooke, 1 lesson with Robin

Friendly, Well-Prepared Tutor

Dr. Yancey is a cheerful, friendly, and kind tutor. She is currently working with my son on a machine-learning project that is looking at the problem of detecting forged photos. We like working with Robin as she not only explains machine learning but also explains the mathematical theory behind the models. She is patient and extremely well-prepared for the sessions with detailed slides, notes, and lectures. This makes sense as she created two machine-learning classes during her time at UC Davis and they are still using her content for the classes today! For anyone looking for her to tutor, she is very knowledgeable in machine learning and deep learning. She is also very skilled in Python and various machine-learning libraries such as PyTorch, Sklearn, Pandas, and NumPy. The only regret about working with Dr. Yancey is I didn't find her sooner so that my son can develop his technical skills earlier.

Shakespeare, 10 lessons with Robin

Solid help

I have been working with Robin bi-weekly for many months now. I had began doing an online course/credential/bootcamp program but I am so glad I continued to work with Robin instead. Her course lessons aligned with the general ML algorithms I needed to learn and I aced my interview questions when they asked about them! It was so much easier to understand the theory with her examples and having opportunity to talk things out with her. Additionally, I am so grateful that her lesson notes taught me how to implement each algorithm in code as well. She also helped me with a python and LeetCode problems. (These were also in my interview and I did really well!) We normally do one session per week on python and one on ML. I didn’t know Python before working with her and now I’m a master at medium-hard LeetCode problems. She covered everything from basic to advanced data’s structures and algorithms in Python. It was much easier with someone to hold me accountable for writing quality code consistently. I learned Python much quicker than I could imagine! I’m really looking forward to continuing to learn deep learning with her while I work in my current SW engineering position. She has a lot of experience in the top models used and knows efficient techniques to optimize them based on her past research work.

Peter, 7 lessons with Robin

Very knowledgeable and experienced machine learning tutor

Robin is skilled in Machine Learning and Deep Learning, and she's great at teaching these subjects. She helped me not only with learning about Machine Learning but also in getting ready for job interviews. I had a session with her that made my interview feel easy, and I learned many important techniques in Machine Learning which will be very useful for my studies and for my future career in this field. Robin is experienced, kind, patient, and very supportive. If you're looking for a tutor in the Machine Learning area, I really recommend choosing her.

Kasidet, 3 lessons with Robin

Robin is the best!!!

Robin is the best tutor Ive ever had. She is clearly very experienced and always has materials prepared for the lesson. Anytime I don't understand a concept she helps me understand by working through examples step by step until I get it. Ive had fun learning new things in each session because she makes the topics exciting and engaging. She is also very patient and kind when things get difficult for me as I am new to the field. I will keep working with her until I complete all of her machine learning and deep learning lessons.

Lily, 32 lessons with Robin
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