Christina Ruth Dhanaraj · Work / Projects · Activities

Projects

Microsoft Office:Mac

Microsoft Corporation, summer 2007

Software Development Engineer Intern with the Mac Business Unit
Used C++ to code two features (chart formatting, movie insertion) for Office:mac
Wrote thorough design documents for future developer use

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

Participated in MIT's annual AI programming competition
Developed computer player code in Java for a real-time strategy game
Implemented simple path-finding and decision-making algorithms

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

Undergraduate research with Sir Tim Berners-Lee at MIT CSAIL's Decentralized Information Group
Developed source-fetching module and some infrastructure on Tabulator, a semantic web browser implemented in JavaScript

Automatic Prediction Of Hit Songs

Research Science Institute - MIT, summer 2004

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

Carmel HS, 2003-2005

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