Engineer Project

Andrew G. West

http://www.andrew-g-west.com *******@***.*****.***

Education

Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania Spring 2013

Ph.D.

Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania Spring 2010

M.S.E.

Computer Science (w/honors) Washington & Lee University Spring 2007

B.Sc.

Research and Employment Experience

University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA Summer 2007 to present

Position: Doctoral researcher, security and distributed systems labs

Leveraged machine-learning and behavioral modeling for anti-abuse (e.g., vandalism, spam,

copyvio) analysis and detection in Web 2.0/user-generated/collaborative information systems

Described novel attacks/vulnerabilities in these environments; developed proactive defenses

Written 20+ peer-reviewed publications (12+ rst-author) synthesizing established techniques

and related work with novel experimentation and use-cases characterized by:

Use of trust/reputation management to produce behavior-predictive quantities;

implementation of spatial reasoning to overcome issues with sparse feedback

Emphasis on metadata-derived features to produce scalable and content-agnostic models

Bringing theoretical work to fruition via prototype and production systems to bene t

communities of practice. My tool (http://en.wikipedia.org/WP:STiki) has been used

to remove 200,000+ unconstructive contributions from English Wikipedia

Evaluated output in terms of performance, practicality, user experience, and policy impacts

Additional themes: Web 2.0 security, network security, cyber-crime economics, email spam,

research ethics, computer supported collaborative work, crowdsourcing, technical writing

Position: Teaching assistant, 10 semesters of Senior Capstone course

Advised and evaluated 100+ student teams in year-long research/implementation projects

Guided project management, methodology, and technical writing components

Position: Technical writing consultant, various paid capacities

Combined expert-level English with formal communications training as a sought-after resource

for review of research/grant materials, promotional content, and ESL assistance

Alsos Digital Library Lexington, VA Summer 2006

Position: Database programmer/engineer

SQL and .NET programming in support of the Alsos Project (http://alsos.wlu.edu)

Improved search methodology and query e ciency; cooperated closely with content team

Computer Skills and Languages

Extremely pro cient with development in Java, C/C++, SQL, HTML

Functional in BASH shell, C#, Coq, .NET, Python, Scheme

Software: Weka (machine-learning), R (statistics), L TEX (typesetting)

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Capable in Windows and UNIX/Linux operating environments

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