Computer Science High School
Resume:
MATTHEW SZENHER
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Edinburgh EH3 6QL E-mail ********@*****.***
UK
EDUCATION
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland Nov. 2008
Ph.D. in Informatics, specializing in visually-guided robotic navigation
Dissertation titled Visual Homing in Dynamic Indoor Environments
Brown University, Providence, RI 1995
Sc. B. in Computer Science. GPA of 3.7 out of 4.0 within concentration
Joseph Case High School, Swansea, MA 1991
Valedictorian
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
Languages Objective-C, Python, C++, C, Java, JavaScript, HTML, PHP Perl, Visual Basic, VB-,
Script/ASP Matlab Script, Pascal,
APIs Cocoa Touch, SQLite, OpenCV, Swing, Collections
Systems Mac OS, Linux, Windows (98, 2000, XP)
RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
Independent iPhone Application Developer, Edinburgh, UK 2008 - Present
• Designed and built four iPhone applications published on iTunes Connect
• Implemented both navigation and tab bar view controllers
• Used SQLite library to query purpose-built MySQL databases in two appli-
cations, a haiku generator and a Cockney rhyming slang generator
• Overcame iPhone’s limited memory capacity to display large volume of text
in eBook application
Women in Housing and Finance, New York, NY 2001 - Present
Webmaster
• Designed and regularly update website (www.whf-ny.org)
• Built website using PHP code which generates webpages (e.g. searchable
member directory, events calendar) with information stored in a purpose-
built MySQL database
Hunter College, City University of New York, NY 2000 - 2003
Adjunct Lecturer
• Taught University-level computer science course on object-oriented design,
problem-solving, recursion and dynamic data structures
• Supervised two volunteer undergraduate teaching assistants
New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, NY 2000 - 2003
Webmaster
• Redesigned website, increasing total hits by 250%
• Created searchable online database of images using ASP VBScript, MS Ac-,
cess and HTML
The Dwight School, New York, NY 1996 - 2000
Computer Science & Mathematics Teacher
• Taught junior- and senior-level International Baccalaureate computer sci-
ence courses covering programming in C++, algorithms, data structures,
computer math, networking and computer architecture
• Wrote C++ program to simulate wolf behavior; researched, designed and
implemented code for realistic terrain generation and 3D graphical display
of landscapes
• Wrote poetry-generator in Perl and published article on its use in the class-
room (see Publications section)
• Created and taught class on digital art and design
PUBLICATIONS
Webb, B., Wessnitzer, J., Rosano, H., Szenher, M., Zampoglou, M., and Haferlach, T. (to appear). Low
level approaches to cognitive control. In Arena, P and Patane, L., editors, Spatial Temporal Patterns for
.
Action-Oriented Perception in Roving Robots. Springer.
Szenher, M. (2008). Navigation by image-based visual homing. In Rabunal, J. R., Dorado, J., and Pazos,
A., editors, Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence. Information Science Reference, Hershey, PA, USA.
Zampoglou, M., Szenher, M., and Webb, B. (2006). Adaptation of controllers for image-based homing.
Adaptive Behavior, 14(4):381-399.
Szenher, M. (2005). Visual homing in natural environments. In Nehmzow, U., Melhuish, C., and
Witkowski, M., editors, Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, pages 221-226, Imperial College Lon-
don.
Szenher, M. (2005). Visual homing with learned goal distance information. In Murase, K., Sekiyama,
K., Kubota, N., Naniwa, T., and Sitte, J., editors, Proceedings of the Third International Symposium
on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment, pages 223-229, Awara-Spa, Fukui, Japan.
Springer-Verlag.
Szenher, M. (2002). The mathematician’s apprentice. In Worsley, D., editor, Teaching for Depth: Where
Math Meets the Humanities, pages 137-145. Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH.
Szenher, M. and Worsley, D. (1998). The probability of poetry: From math to literature. Teachers and
Writers, 30(2):8-12.
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