Computer Science Assistant

Sammy Mohamed

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Stony Brook, NY

Fields of Interest

Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Computer Vision.

My primary interest is in applying syntactic and semantic analysis in order to categorize linguistic style

and sentiment. I am also interested in generating natural language descriptions of images.

Education

Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY

B.S. with Honors 2009 - 2013(expected)

Majors: Computer Science, Applied Mathematics & Statistics

Pursuing BS/MS simultaneously; MS Computer Science expected 05/14

GPA: 3.54 GRE: 800Q/640V/4.0W

Current CS/AMS Coursework ((G) for Graduate):

(G) Natural Language Processing, (G) Words & Pictures, Mathematical Finance

Research Experience

Center for Language & Speech Processing

The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD

Visiting Student Researcher Summer 2012

Worked on putting together a comprehensive dataset for textures and on modeling the

textures so that instances of these textures could be identi ed in images.

Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY

Research Assistant 2012-2013

Conducting independent research on Wikipedia vandalism analysis under the advisement of

Yejin Choi.

Professional Experience

Netomat Inc New York, NY

Web Development Intern Summer 2010

Worked on client and server side issues for a variety of Netomat s webpages using jQuery, CSS

and PHP. Websites included the pages of prominent groups such as the Chicago Bears.

PowStudios Stony Brook, NY

Gameplay Tester & Developer Intern Jan-June 2010

Responsible for all duties in the testing and developing of games written for the PC and

XBOX 360.

Thrillist New York, NY

Web Development Intern Summer 2009

Wrote forms in PHP that worked with a database of quotes using PostgreSQL that allowed

employees to add, edit and delete quotes as well as move them across the site without having

to change HTML.

Teaching Experience

Internal Drive New York, NY

Computer Programming & Game Design Instructor Summer 2011

Taught computer programming (C++ & Java) and game design at a summer tech camp held

at New York University.

Stony Brook Applied Math Department Stony Brook, NY

AMS 310: Probability & Statistics Teaching Assistant Fall 2010

Helped students prepare for exams and master their homework material.

Graded homework assignments and proctored exams.

Computer Skills

Pro ciency with

Java, C, C++, C#, PHP, SQL, Shell Scripting, UNIX

Familiarity with

Visual Basic, MatLab, MIPS Assembly, JavaScript, HTML, L TEX, Python, Perl

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Honors & Awards

Passed the Society of Actuaries Probability Exam . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2012

S-STEM I Scholarship (O ered $6,000, awarded less due to funding) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2010

Invited to Golden Key International Honour Society . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2010

Invited to Upsilon Pi Epsilon Computer Science Honor Society . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2010

Invited to National Society of Collegiate Scholars . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2010

Dean s List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 2009-2012

Presidential Scholarship ($12,000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2009

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