Carnegie Mellon University B.S. in Computer Science Additional Major in Pure Mathematics Minor in Computational Neuroscience
Research Experience
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (Summer 2007 - Present) Funded by NIH Undergraduate Training Program in Neural Computation (May 2008 - August 2008) Funded by NIH Undergraduate Computational Neuroscience Fellowship (April 2007 - April 2008) Advisor: David Touretzky Hippocampal place cell research. Exploring the way space and experience is encoded in the brain. I also maintained Hodgkin-Huxley Simulator, a graphical simulator developed in MATLAB for undergraduate and graduate neurophysiology courses.
CMU Wireless Lab (Spring 2007) Advisors: Peter Steenkiste, Glenn Judd Developed a spectrum analyzer for a wireless emulator project. Programmed UART chip for I/O support and implemented signal processing algorithms in MATLAB
CMU BioRobotics Laboratory (Fall 2005-Spring 2006) Funded by Intel First Year Research Experience Grant (IFYRE) Advisor: Howie Choset Designed, built and programmed modular snake robots
Teaching Experience
15-251: Great Theoretical Ideas in Computer Science (January 2008 - May 2008) Course Instructor: Professor Luis von Ahn
