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Qualifications, education and things that I have worked on.
Basics
| Name | Dante Garcia |
| Label | Bioengineering Student |
| gp.dantedaniel@gmail.com | |
| Url | https://gpdantedaniel.github.io/ |
| Summary | Bioengineering student with a special penchant for computers and microorganisms. Enjoys a cup of green tea now and then. |
Work
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2025.05 - 2025.12 Course Assistant
Department of Bioengineering, McGill University
Developed a RAG-powered virtual TA for the course BIEN 200 to help students write their research articles using the works of previous cohorts as a knowledge base. Designed a topic-modelling pipeline that links papers together using LLM embeddings. Corrected student research articles as well.
- Agentic AI
- Text embeddings
- Topic modelling
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2024.11 - 2025.10 Dry Lab Research Member
McGill iGEM
Developed AI models for generating and evaluating functional mutant proteins as part of McGill iGEM's dry lab project. Ran workshops to introduce pre-university students to machine learning and synthetic biology.
- Research and development
- Fine-tuning and designing models
- Thermodynamic predictions
- Educational workshops
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2024.06 - 2024.07 Web Developer
Agence de brevets Fournier
Developed a website for a patent agency. The website's design was informed by market research and optimized to be fast, inexpensive and effective at reaching potential customers.
- Web development
- Copy writing
- Wordpress
- Figma wireframes
Education
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2024.07 - 2028.04 Montreal, Canada
BEng
McGill University
Bioengineering
- BIEN 310 Introduction to Biomolecular Engineering
- BIEN 350 Biosignals, Systems and Control
- BIEN 290 Bioengineering Measurement Laboratory
Skills
| Software Development | |
| Python | |
| JavaScript | |
| CSS | |
| HTML | |
| R |
| Dataset Creation | |
| Pandas | |
| PyArrow | |
| HuggingFace |
| Model Design | |
| HuggingFace | |
| PyTorch | |
| Scikit-Learn |
| Data Analysis | |
| Matplotlib | |
| Seaborn | |
| Plotly |
| Agentic AI | |
| LangGraph | |
| LlamaIndex | |
| Haystack | |
| ChromaDB | |
| SentenceTransformers |
| App Development | |
| Flask | |
| NextJS | |
| React | |
| React Native | |
| Redux | |
| Docker |
| Deployment | |
| Firebase | |
| Supabase | |
| Google Cloud | |
| Microsoft Azure | |
| Vercel |
| Web Development | |
| Figma | |
| Wordpress | |
| Elementor | |
| GeneratePress |
Languages
| English | |
| Native speaker |
| French | |
| Native speaker |
| Spanish | |
| Native speaker |
Interests
| Bioengineering | |||||||
| Protein design | |||||||
| Signal processing | |||||||
| Computational modelling | |||||||
| Synthetic biology | |||||||
| Neural interfaces | |||||||
| Machine learning | |||||||