Christopher Lee Chin
Box 1910, Computer Science
Providence, RI 02906
tel: (401) 863-7629
fax: (401) 863-7719
clc(at)cs.brown.edu

Present I am currently a Systems Programmer for the Brown University Department of Computer Science's Technical Staff. Simultaneously, I am pursuing a Masters Degree in Computer Science at Brown, researching Machine Learning for Automated Trading of Financial Markets; and  Statistical Natural Language Processing for the Correlation of News Releases and Price Movements.
 
Education I received my Bachelor of Science degree from Brown University in 2002, concentrating in Computer Science and also emphasizing  Business Economics. I was awarded membership in the Sigma Xi Scientific Honor Society, the Microsoft Full-Tuition National Scholarship for 2001-02, and a four-year scholarship from Consolidated Edison. I graduated cum laude from The Lawrenceville School in 1998.
 
Work In 2001, as Program Manager intern for Microsoft, I led a company-wide exploratory of Location-Based Services and designed their Location API. In 2000, I was a Software Design Engineer intern for Microsoft's NetMeeting group, where I developed the XML Help System and Text Chat interface. In 1999, I was a Software Engineering intern for Digital Equipment Corporation (then Compaq, now Hewlett Packard) helping them port Altavista Tunnel VPN to Linux. In 2002, I was also Brown's student liaison to Microsoft.
 
Teaching In the fall of 2000, I was Head Teaching Assistant for Prof. Pascal Van Hentenryck in CS31, Brown's 120-student intro class to computer architecture. In the spring of 2000, I was Head TA for Prof. Amy Greenwald's CS141 class in Artificial Intelligence. In fall of 1999, I was a Teaching Assistant for Prof. Maurice Herlihy's CS31 class. From 1996-1998, I was a Head Counselor teaching C++ to campers aged 9 to 18 at National Computer Camps, America's first computer summer camp founded 1977.
 
Extracurricular Since 2000, I have held various roles in the Brown University Entrepreneurship Program, including Events Director, Marketing Director, and Technology Director. For the past three years I have also been the organizer of Sex Power God and StarF*ck, well known as the best and biggest dances at Brown. I have also been  an executive board member of the LGBTA, president of the Brown Investment Group, and treasurer of Technology House, creators of America's largest Tetris installation. In 1998-1999, I competed on Brown's Varsity Foil Fencing Team. I am also a member of Brown's Biotechnology Interest Group and study the Pipe Organ with University Organist, Mark Steinbach.

Visit my larger, but outdated, website at www.chris-chin.com.