Assistant Computer Science

Alex Akiva Bamberger p: 585-***-****

*** * ***** ** *: ******@********.***

New York, NY w: http://www.qoobster.com

Education

Columbia University New York, NY

M.S. Computer Science Sep. 2010 Dec. 2011 (expected)

Columbia University New York, NY

B.A. Computer Science/Math (Premed Concentration) Sep. 2007 May 2010

Graduated cum laude, GPA 3.75 cumulative, 4.12 major

Work Experience

Columbia University, Dept. of Applied Math and Applied Physics New York, NY

Research Assistant Fall 2010

Studying movement of antibody microclusters on the surface of T-cells using computer vision

Google, Inc. Mountain View, CA

Software Engineering Intern Summer 2010

Designed & implemented Google Health API in Google Docs; crafted Android app to improve Spin

Classes using AppEngine, the Android SDK & a simple peak- nding algorithm

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Mountain View, CA

Software Engineering Intern Summer 2009

Designed Java software to improve GUI development for the Mission Control Technologies software;

wrote unit tests to increase coverage using Clover and TestNG

Columbia University, Dept. of Biomedical Informatics New York, NY

Research Assistant Summer 2006, Summer 2008

Studied cardiac arrest predictability in Perl & developed GUI to visualize medical ontology using SQL

and Java (2008); studied illness due to travel using clinical notes & e ectiveness of NLP software using

Perl (2006)

Skills

Technical: Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Javascript, C/C++, SQL, MATLAB, OCaml, HTML, L TEX, CSS

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Google AppEngine, Google Web Toolkit, Django, jQuery, *nix

Languages: Advanced German, Basic Hebrew

Publications

Hripcsak G, Bamberger A, Friedman C. Fever detection in clinic visit notes using a general purpose

processor (abstract). Fifth Annual Syndromic Surveillance Conference; 2006 September 19-20;

Baltimore, MD: International Society for Disease Surveillance, 2006.

Awards

Google Intern Poster Finalist: Summer 2010

Columbia Science Department Award: Spring 2010

Certi cate of Distinction for Academic Excellence: Spring 2010

Dean s List: Fall 2007 Fall 2009

Leadership

Web2.0 Expo New York, NY

Speaker, Why Hacking Matters September 2010

Discussed role of hacking in a technically oriented organization

HackNY (HackNY.com) New York, NY

Founding Organizer, Winning Contestant Spring 2010 Fall 2010

Established the rst NYC wide intercollegiate hackathon for more than 200 students & 18 NYC based

startups

Presented at the NY Tech Meetup before more than 700 people in the tech community

Pro led in the New York Observer: http://bit.ly/akiva-ny-observer

Assocation for Computing Machinery (ACM) New York, NY

Graduate Advisor, President, VP Corporate A airs, Treasurer 2008 2010

Managed, led & oversaw Columbia ACM chapter. Developed an Application Development

Initiative (ADI), a Hackerspace, & hackathons.

Application Development Initiative (ADI) New York, NY

Founder 2009 2010

Spearheaded initiative to grow the developer community at Columbia

Bits and Pieces Column (Columbia Spectator) New York, NY

Columnist Fall 2009

Wrote about tech at Columbia & around the world in biweekly column

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