Software Service

TROY ASTORINO term address *** Newbury St, Apt. **A, Boston, MA

permanent address 25252 Mustang Drive, Laguna Hills, CA

email ********@***.***

phone 949-***-****

EDUCATION

Massachusetts Institute of Candidate for Bachelor of Science in Physics with a Focus in Computational Learning

and in Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering with a Concentration in Robotics

Technology

Minor in Economics

Cambridge, MA

GPA: 4.5/5.0

Class of 2013

Sage Hill School SAT: 780 Math, 800 Reading, 760 Writing

Newport Coast, CA GPA: 4.4/4.0

Class of 2009

WORK EXPERIENCE

SpaceX Developed web service for launching, monitoring, and analyzing Monte Carlo

Los Angeles, CA simulations over the mission trajectory. Integrated with the existing simulator and the

Summer 2012 - Present high performance computing cluster. Built front-end and back-end of the web service,

as well as the processing libraries for generating dispersions over various mission

parameters.

Robust Robotics Group Testing algorithms for autonomous localization of a chemical vapor source using

CSAIL, MIT measurements from a small electric sensor. Developing software for experimentation

Fall 2011 Present on a robotic wheelchair and a quadcopter. Comparing effectiveness of various

planning algorithms and models of chemical plume dispersion

Lockheed Martin Developed ground station software for commanding a commercial imagery satellite.

King of Prussia, PA Engineered component from initial design through integration and demonstration for

Summer 2011 the processing and transmitting of GPS Almanac data. Discovered and fixed several

critical bugs in the legacy software framework

CSNSM Designed and implemented modifications to ASIC test board for analyzing a new

Orsay, France material for gamma ray astronomy in order to improve resolution of measurements.

Summer 2010 Collected measurements with radioactive source and performed analysis on the data.

Wrote automated data analysis program in Java and Matlab. Results presented in

th

poster at 8 INTEGRAL Workshop in Dublin

Clojure, Python, Java, Node.js, C#, C++, HTML, CSS, Backbone.js, Matlab, VHDL

SKILLS

Fluent in French

Robotics, Computational Cognitive Science, Computational Neuroscience, Statistical

SELECTED

Learning Theory, Real Time Systems and Software, Automatic Control, Algorithms,

COURSEWORK Probabilistic Systems Analysis, Relativity, Quantum Physics, Statistical Mechanics,

Dynamics, Thermodynamics, Signal Processing, Econometrics, Finance Theory

MIT Freshman Leadership Program Counselor (2011-2012), Baker Leaders Mentor

ACTIVITIES &

(2011-2012), Baker House Rooming Chair (2011-2012), MIT Varsity Tennis (2009-

LEADERSHIP 2012), Sage Hill Basketball Team Captain (2009), Sage Hill Tennis Team Captain

(2008, 2009), Sage Hill Class President (2006-2008)

National Merit Scholarship (2009-2011), AP National Scholar (2009), Sage Hill Scholar

AWARDS

Athlete of the Year (2009)

TS/SCI Cleared

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