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Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

* Software and analytics for remote monitoring of metal pipelines under cathodic protection

Pittsburgh, Pa

* Demonstrated that by employing gradient descent optimization, the process of determining nucleic acid nearest-neighbor binding energies could achieve the same accuracy goal with 1/10th as many experiments, some of which could re-use existing data from the literature rather than requiring bespoke synthesis.* Google Summer of Code: reviewed, implemented basic NURBS spline algorithms (evaluation, trimming, surface construction) in Blender* Class projects: KNN/SVM histology segmentation, a novel technique for electrical control of fluid color for applications in soft robotics, continuum mechanics analysis of squid chromatophores, finite element analysis of water flow through junctions

Boston, Ma

* Wrote software to perform many-genome evolutionary studies* Used SQL (sqlite then postgres) backend to perform analysis on data sets that wouldn't fit in memory* Scripted massively parallel statistical tests on AWS and the Harvard Supercomputing Cluster* Performed large-scale orthology detection and used graph theoretical techniques to analyze messy data* Created makefile pipeline to enforce a self-documenting figure generation and analysis process

Boston, Ma

* Desktop application development using python and Qt* Transitioned code to MVC architecture* Integrated cross-platform code with OS X launch services for a platform-specific experience* Used C++ debugging to optimize drawing and track down multiple bugs in the Qt framework* Updated icon set for native look and feel, broke out document icons* Created build+link script to incorporate all necessary libraries into a single app bundle and package into an installer* Dug through the Mac OS X dyld implementation to fix a sporadic runtime linking issue silently created by an OSX security update

Boston, Ma

* Investigated the scaling behavior of a spectrometer (PFB + streaming FFT) between the Virtex 5 and Virtex 6 FPGA generations* Implemented test harness in matlab to investigate anomalous connections in the scaled-up simulink design

Boston, Ma

* Identified potential allergens in Arabidopsis Thaliana* Helped develop RNAi knockdown mechanism* Implemented standard wetlab techniques to incorporate targeting hairpin into a standard backbone for subsequent agrobacterium transfection* Helped code parts of the team web page (JS/CSS/HTML)

Denver, Co

* Supervised and guided middle-schoolers through scientifically and mathematically informative activities.* Developed a programming activity based on the "RoboWar" platform* Partially developed a demonstration based on a scaled-down railgun