Ben Kluga Email & Phone Number

New Haven, Ct, Us

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Work on a variety of AI-based systems for tutoring, including a C++ tutor for college-level computer science students, an anatomy tutor for college-level biology students, and a scientific argumentation tutor for middle school students.** See publication info below in Accomplishments section **- Developed instrument and conducted interviews of domain experts in the area of computer science to assess hint choice by expert instructors; contributed significantly to publication in conference proceedings- Conducted over 100 hours of interviews of domain experts in the area of biological sciences to produce and validate a programmable representation of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems; contributed significantly to both workshop papers and publications in conference proceedings, as well as delivering presentations at conferences including Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) '19 and Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) '20- As a part of a 4 developer team, created a Unity frontend for a tutoring system to teach middle school students about scientific argumentation, with a backend/learner model utilizing C# and PHP; conducted alpha and beta testing on the UI

Committed 20 hours/week during the semester and 40 hours/week during the summer to a software engineering role in Discover's code_orange program at Northern Illinois University as well as the Riverwoods' headquarters Business Technology program.As a part of the Digital Banking and Enterprise Architecture departments, collaborated with product owners to produce various software through agile-based, test-driven development:- Created a supporting full stack web app for the project management software Jira to help visualize project data via an AR mobile app. Utilized React, Node, and PCF.- Developed an API to provide data on Google search trends. Utilized Django, Postgres, Docker, and PCF.- Contributed to a CI/CD pipeline as well as an API for managing tech debt. Utilized Spring, MySQL, AWS, PCF, Jenkins, and Nexus. - Participated in conversion of APIs from SOAP to REST.

Computer technician for the College of Engineering. Responsible for:- installation and maintenance of software and hardware in laboratories, classrooms, and for faculty- the creation of images, networking and security, for over 700 computers in 3 buildings across campusExtensive experience configuring engineering software such as MATLAB, ANSYS, Autodesk, and SolidWorks, as well as with various Windows operating systems.Experience troubleshooting, developing hardware and software-based solutions, as well as monitoring inventory. Of particular note was an offline, script-based solution for maintaining backups of large amounts of data.

Seoul, South Korea

English language instructor of adults in a corporate setting, including extensive experience with learners in the garment and pharmaceutical industries, serving at companies including:The Sae-A Grouphttp://www.sae-a.com/eng/main/mainSanofi Koreahttps://www.sanofi.co.kr/Developed specialized curricula related to listening comprehension and argumentation; Utilized communicative and task-based approaches, including the use of game-based learning, as well as a flipped classroom leveraging computer-assisted language learning;

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Cognitive Science minor, Linguistics minor

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Communication And Media Studies

Activities and Societies: English Literature minor