about

Hi, I'm August, a third year CS student.

In my free time I enjoy reading and exercising.

I'm a Porsche fan and hope to own a 987.2 Boxster Spyder in the future. The FL5 Type R, ND2 MX-5, and GR86 are also pretty cool.

experience

• Founder & Director @ Læra Labs (10/2025-Present)

Building specialty small and large language models.

• Undergraduate Researcher @ WLU (08/2025-Present)

Working on Multi-Stakeholder Policy Coordination in Multimodal Mobility Systems using Language Model Agents under Dr. Sehra.

• President @ Laurier Cybersecurity Club (04/2024-Present)

Overseeing 4 departments (Tech, Events, Finance, Content).
Managing hiring and a large club budget for 300+ members.
Organizing technical events with considerable prizes for hundreds of attendees.

• Machine Learning Intern @ Phase-5 (06/2024-01/2025)

Developed a localized agentic RAG prototype using Llama3, Phi3, Mistral, all-MiniLM-L6-v2, used for querying a large dataset of mixed quantitative and qualitative data.
Implemented Agentic/multi-model architecture for text generation, evaluation, parsing, and embedding.
Utilized SOTA models such as Command R to increase context token length limits from 8000 to 128,000.
Collaborated with industry professionals on production-level ML systems and local LLM deployment + GPU infrastructure.

contact

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