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Basics

Name Obed Junias
Label Computer Science Graduate Student & NLP Researcher
Email obed.junias@colorado.edu
Phone 720-266-0046
Url https://linkedin.com/in/obed-junias
Summary MS Computer Science student at University of Colorado Boulder specializing in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Responsible AI. Experienced in building scalable AI solutions and conducting research on LLM bias and fairness.

Work

  • 2021.08 - 2024.08
    Senior Member of Technical Staff
    Oracle Corporation
    Architected and implemented TestNG and BATS automation frameworks for Oracle Rest Data Services and SQLcL, reducing manual effort by 95%. Engineered Python-based migration framework for Oracle APEX applications supporting 200+ employees.
    • Reduced manual testing effort by 95%
    • Led 15-member team for DB Tools feature validation
    • Automated Oracle APEX application migrations
  • 2021.02 - 2021.07
    Machine Learning Engineer Intern
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise
    Built intelligent automation solution with Groovy and Workfusion OCR, optimizing data workflows and integrating text extraction into software robots, increasing speed by 40% and reducing errors by 80%.
    • Increased automation speed by 40%
    • Reduced errors by 80%
    • Delivered PoC on Intelligent Business Process Management

Volunteer

  • 2025.01 - Present

    Boulder, Colorado

    Responsible AI Researcher
    Institute of Cognitive Science, CU Boulder
    Conducting bias and fairness evaluation in LLaMA, GPT-4, and other LLMs for mental health NLP tasks, analyzing demographic and linguistic biases across multi-modal datasets.
    • Implemented fairness metrics for LLM evaluation
    • Identified biases in pronoun usage and emotional tone
    • Contributing to ethical AI research

Education

  • 2024.08 - 2026.05

    Boulder, Colorado

    Master of Science
    University of Colorado Boulder
    Computer Science
    • Machine Learning
    • Data Center Scale Computing
    • NLP and Deep NLU
  • 2017.08 - 2021.08

    Bangalore, India

    Bachelor of Engineering
    BMS College of Engineering
    Computer Science
    • Algorithms
    • Databases
    • Operating Systems
    • Computer Networks

Skills

Programming Languages
Python
C++
Java
Rust
SQL
AI/ML Frameworks
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Keras
Transformers
LangChain
Scikit-Learn
Cloud Technologies
GCP
Oracle Cloud (OCI)
AWS
CI/CD

Languages

English
Fluent

Interests

Machine Learning & AI
Natural Language Processing
Responsible AI
Large Language Models
Bias and Fairness
Computer Vision
Deep Learning

Projects

  • 2024.01 - 2024.12
    Medical Ethics Assessment of LLMs
    Systematic assessment of ethical reasoning capabilities of large language models in clinical contexts using RAG pipeline and controlled evaluation with curated multiple-choice questions.
    • RAG Pipeline Implementation
    • Ethical Reasoning Evaluation
  • 2024.01 - 2024.06
    Lost in Plot: Contrastive Learning for Movie Retrieval
    Dense retrieval system using fine-tuned BERT encoder with contrastive learning for tip-of-the-tongue movie retrieval, outperforming GPT-4 baseline on 100K+ movie corpus.
    • Contrastive Learning
    • BERT Fine-tuning
    • Dense Retrieval
  • 2024.06 - 2024.12
    Resource-Efficient LLM Fine-tuning for Mental Health Support
    Applied parameter-efficient fine-tuning with QLoRA to adapt Falcon 7B model for mental health conversations with limited computational resources.
    • QLoRA Implementation
    • Mental Health NLP
  • 2024.03 - 2024.08
    Multi-stage RAG System
    Robust RAG system with FAISS indexing and Scikit-Learn context filtering for enhanced factual grounding of LLM responses over research paper corpus.
    • FAISS Integration
    • Multi-stage Retrieval