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Biology student building AI project experience

First-year at WashU St. Louis, creating AI prototypes for real document workflows and growing a professional network.

Work samples

Portfolio items include an externship prototype that used OCR, large language models, and retrieval-augmented generation to extract data and build document insights for enterprise PDFs.

  • Pfizer Advanced: AI-Powered Document Insights & Data Extraction Externship
    Pfizer Advanced: AI-Powered Document Insights & Data Extraction Externship
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    Pfizer Advanced: AI-Powered Document Insights & Data Extraction Externship

    Prototype AI-powered document intelligence with Pfizer—using OCR, LLMs, and RAG to automate real enterprise PDF workflows and build a standout portfolio project.

    AI & MLPythonDocument IntelligencePresentation Skills

About me

First-year at WashU St. Louis, creating AI prototypes for real document workflows and growing a professional network.

I am a first-year Biology student at Washington University in St. Louis exploring tech and AI through hands-on projects. I have completed an externship prototyping AI document intelligence, and I am focused on building relationships and expanding my professional network as I shape my early career.

Externships

Pfizer Advanced: AI-Powered Document Insights & Data Extraction Externship

Pfizer

Experience

Pediatric Internship Program (PIPS) Research

Stanford University - Center for Academic Medicine · June - August 2025

Geoscience Specimen Collection Intern

Stanford University - Mitchell Earth Sciences · June - August 2024

Skills

OCR implementationWorking with large language modelsRetrieval-augmented generation (RAG)Prototype developmentResearch and analysisNetworking and collaboration

✅ Verified by Extern · ⏱️ In progress

Pfizer Advanced: AI-Powered Document Insights & Data Extraction Externship

Prototype AI-powered document intelligence with Pfizer—using OCR, LLMs, and RAG to automate real enterprise PDF workflows and build a standout portfolio project.

AI & MLPythonDocument IntelligencePresentation Skills

Overview

The work built a prototype document-intelligence pipeline combining OCR, computer vision, large language models, and retrieval-augmented generation. It analyzed LLM architectures and integration patterns and produced explanatory material showing how tokenization, transformer attention, and human-reviewed training shaped model behavior. The work documented how these components interact within

Pfizer Advanced: AI-Powered Document Insights & Data Extraction Externship

What I've accomplished

I explained LLM internals, showing how tokenization, transformer attention, and parameter updates from human-reviewed training affect predictions and model responses when applied to pharmaceutical documents.

Project breakdown

I explained how an LLM tokenized prompts, used transformer architecture and attention to prioritize context, and described training from human-reviewed data that adjusted model parameters to improve predictions.

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