Alex Levesque

Alex Levesque

Applied Math & Computer Engineering
Queen's University

Interested in all related to computer science, data science, probability theory, and statistics. My goal is to build intelligent systems to solve real-world problems.

Experience

Data Science Intern

2026
Scotiabank Velocity Program • Toronto, ON

Incoming Summer 2026

AI Technician Intern

2025
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada • Ottawa, ON

Developed and deployed Azure-based workflows to transcribe, classify, and organize refugee basis-of-claim documents with 93% accuracy, significantly reducing manual processing time. Built an Azure chatbot using Cosmos DB, NLP, and embedding pipelines to cut legal document ingestion to under 10 minutes and presented the system’s impact to stakeholders at a conference.

LLM Research Member

2025
Algoverse AI Research • Remote

Conducted AI research in a 12-week program under mentorship from PhDs at Meta, OpenAI, and Princeton. Improved large language model efficiency by implementing a self-contrastive Mixture-of-Experts architecture in PyTorch and co-authoring a paper under review introducing contrastive decoding methods with a 2% benchmarked efficiency gain.

Technical Skills

LanguagesPython, C++, TypeScript, SQL
ML / DataNumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, PyTorch
PlatformsAzure, Copilot Studio, Power Automate
ToolsGit, SolidWorks, VSCode, Jupyter