Education
University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2011-present
PhD-track graduate student
Research Assistant under Dr. Sridhar Mahadevan in the Autonomous Learning Lab
Specializing in Manifold Learning, Representation Discovery, and Reinforcement Learning
Washington University in St. Louis, 2007-2011
BS and MS in Computer Science
Experience
Google, summers 2011 - 2013
Software Engineering Intern with Aysel Ozgur in Search Quality
- Developed a system that improves search results for medical queries
Software Engineering Intern with Sally Goldman in Research
- Wrote pipelines for tuning and evaluating Google Play recommendation algorithms
Software Engineering Intern with Lijuan Cai in Google Play
- Wrote software for automatically improving Google Play search and recommendations
Washington University Genome Center, summer 2010
Intern in the Analysis Pipeline
Evaluated alternative short-read sequence aligner packages
National Institute of Standards and Technology, summers 2008 and 2009
Research Intern with Dr. P. Jonathon Phillips
Developed benchmark face recognition algorithms for the MBGC
Contributed patches to PyVision
Washington University Computing Center, 2007-2011
Student manager of the Humanities Digital Workshop
Trained and directed a staff of student lab consultants
Skills
Programming Languages and Tools
Day-to-Day Languages: Python, Matlab, Java, C/C++, Javascript
As-Needed Languages: Bash, Ruby, Haskell, Perl, Go
Proficient with most Unix-family OSes, Mac OS X, and Windows
Proficient with HTML, CSS, JSON, XML, protocol buffers, SQL
Profiles of Interest