Projects
Microsoft Office:Mac
Microsoft Corporation, summer 2007
Gizmoball
MIT, 6.170 Software Engineering Laboratory, spring 2007
- Worked on a 3-person team using Java and OpenGL to implement a 3D pinball
game
- Implemented a simple physics module for ballistic motion and elastic
collisions
BattleCode
MIT, "6.370", January 2007
Data Slicer
Microsoft Corporation, summer 2006
- Explorer
intern with the MSN Member Platform Group
- Learned C#; wrote SQL queries to pull a representative sample out of large
databases, preserving relational links between tables
- Integrated work with graph traversal code by another intern to produce a
proof-of-concept version of the program
Tabulator
MIT, CSAIL/Decentralized Information Group, January 2006
Automatic Prediction Of Hit Songs
- Student research assistant to Dr. Beth
Logan" at Hewlett-Packard Research Labs
- Wrote code in Perl to automatically download and normalize song lyrics
- Put together several existing modules to run analyses of song acoustics and
lyrics using a SVM classifier to predict song popularity
- Coauthor, "Automatic Prediction of Hit Songs," released as a technical report
at HP Labs
Carmel High School Website
- Part of a small team responsible for performance and uptime of school web
server (Gentoo, Apache)
- Responsible for maintenance and development of several sections of site