Education	Brown University Bachelor of Science in Math and Computer Science expected May 2003 Related Coursework abstract algebra (currently enrolled) cryptography (currently enrolled) signals and circuits (currently enrolled) software engineering operating systems information theory Intro to computer science multivariable calculus algorithms probability linear algebra discrete mathematics computer systems linguistics Central High School of Philadelphia
Skills	Languages: C, C++, Java, Perl, Scheme, MIPS assembly, ML Development under: UNIX (Solaris), Windows (NT), MacOS X
Work Experience	Software Design Engineer Intern Microsoft, Summer 2001 Worked on the Macintosh OS X Word team to update existing code base to support Unicode input. Wrote a prototype application to test metrics for new Macintosh text rendering APIs. Head Sunlab Consultant Brown University Department of Computer Science, since Spring 2001 Duties include writing and maintaining utilities to facilitate the operations of a lab of over 70 Sun Ultra 10 work stations in the Brown Computer Science Department, as well as hiring and organizing a staff of approximately twenty undergradutes to supervise, maintain, and support the lab and its users. Head Teaching Assistant Brown University Department of Computer Science, Spring 2001, Prof. Franco Preparata Duties include working closely with the professor in organizing a staff of 9 undergraduate teaching assistants, desigining syllabus, problem sets, help sessions, and additional reference material including an extensive guide to discrete probability. The course teaches topics in discrete math, including probability, propositional logic, basic set theory, and counting, to a class of over 100 computer science majors. Research Intern BBN Technologies, Summer 2000 Worked in the Speech and Language group. Wrote test code and parsing utilities for IdentiFinder, a statistical natural language processing tool for extracting and linking noun phrases in large bodies of text. Worked on Windows 2000 with Java and Perl. Teaching Assistant Brown University Department of Computer Science Introduction to Computer Science, an Integrated Approach, Fall 2000, Prof. John Hughes Introduction to Scientific Computing, Spring 1999, Profs. Nancy Pollard and Thomas Hofman Duties include working on a team of undergraduate TAs, developing and grading assignments, and holding office hours and help sessions. Research Intern University of Pennsylvania; Language, Information, and Computation Lab, 1997 - 1999 Performed research in natural language processing. Work involved the design and implementation of statistical learning models in Perl. Worked with maximum entropy and markov madels and the semantic dictionary, WordNet.
Publication	An Unsupervised Model for Statistically Determining Coordinate Pharse Attachment , Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Assiciation for Computational Linguistics, Baltimore, Maryland the paper in ps and pdf.