Education
- +Carnegie Mellon University
(Pittsburgh, PA)
MS in Language Technologies
anticipated
Fall 2008 GPA: 3.80 / 4.0 (Major GPA: 3.93)
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Carleton College
(Northfield, MN)
BA with a major in Mathematics and Studio Art magna cum laude
Fall 1994
GPA: 3.59 / 4.0 (Major GPA: 3.78)
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Universidad de Concepción
(Concepción, Chile)
Study Abroad with a major in Art
Fall 1996
Research Experience
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RADAR Space/Time
Carnegie Mellon
(Pittsburgh, PA)
Summer 2006-present
with
Eugene Fink
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Investigation of scheduling under uncertainty in the context
of a conference-planning scenario; part of the RADAR project
(Reflective Agent with Distributed Adaptive Reasoning)
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Computational Virology Project
Carnegie Mellon
(Pittsburgh, PA)
Fall 2005-Fall 2006
with
Andrew Walsh
and
Roni Rosenfeld
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Investigation of binding sites in protein structures;
highly-conserved segments in protein amino acid sequences
Industry Experience
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Programmer/Analyst III
Continuing Education of the Bar (legal publishing branch of
the University of California)
(Oakland, CA)
Fall 2001-Fall 2006
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Worked with a team to implement an end-to-end single-sourced
legal publishing system in XML for use by nontechnical
users, integrated with custom software for automated legal
research
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Independent Contractor
Comnet, Inc.
(Osaka, Japan)
Spring 2001-Summer 2001
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Designed and implemented an online shopping cart
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Associate Software Engineer
bigchalk.com (formerly Infonautics, Inc.)
(Berwyn, PA)
Fall 1998-Fall 2000
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Led a team of 4-10 developers in maintaining and refining a
system for automated extraction of news data from various
feeds with various formats, as well as refining the system
using standards-based technologies
Teaching Experience
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Tutor
Carleton College Tutoring Services
(Northfield, MN)
Spring 1995-Summer 1998
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Tutored undergraduate students in introductory and
upper-level Math and Computer Science classes on an
individual basis and in a help-center.
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Teaching Assistant
Carleton College Math/CS Department
(Northfield, MN)
Spring 1995-Summer 1998
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Graded undergraduate work in introductory Computer Science
classes.
Presentations
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Graphical Models Final Project Poster Session
Physical Network Models on Time Series Data
November 2007
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2006 Language Technologies Institute Student Research
Symposium
Lengths of Antigen-Antibody Binding Sites across PDB Data
October 2006
Awards
- 2004-2005 Univ. of California Office of the President
Scholarship Program
UCOP Scholarship to study Artificial Intelligence strategies for
enhancing automated legal research, culminating in a
presentation to the development team
2004
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Comprehensive Exercises in Studio Art
Art Majors Senior Art Show;
works of
Small-Scale Metal Sculpture
May 1998
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Comprehensive Exercises in Mathematics
Public Talk:
Tables, Chairs, and Beermugs:
David Hilbert's "Foundations of Geometry"
October 1997
- 1995-1996 Carleton College Deans List
1996
Graduate Coursework
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Language and Statistics I
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Grammar Formalisms
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Software Engineering for Information Systems
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Grammars and Lexicons
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Probabilistic Graphical Models
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Statistical Machine Learning
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Information Retrieval
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Self-Paced Lab in NLP
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Intermediate Statistics
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Algorithms for NLP
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Machine Learning
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Knowledge Representation and Use in Computers
Skills
- Programming Languages:
Java,
C#(.NET),
Lisp,
Prolog,
Perl,
C/C++,
R/S,
XSLT,
*sh,
Matlab,
Scheme,
lex/yacc (JFlex/CUP),
JavaScript/ECMAScript
- Publishing Technologies:
LaTeX,
XSL-FO
- Database Technologies:
SQL,
Hibernate,
Oracle,
JDBC,
ODBC,
BerkeleyDB,
MS SQL Server
- XML Technologies:
XML,
XSLT,
XPath,
XSL-FO,
XHTML,
XML Schema,
Schematron,
XInclude,
SGML
- Human Languages:
English (Native),
German (Proficient),
Spanish (Intermediate),
Bulgarian (Intermediate)