Engineer Computer Science

Stephanie M Bian

****@***.*** +1-630-***-**** http://bian.mit.edu

education

Fall 2008 Present Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Candidate for Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Major GPA: 5.0/5.0, Cumulative GPA: 4.9/5.0

Expected graduation date: June 2012

Relevant Coursework: Computation Structures, Intro to Algorithms, Software Construction,

Intro to EECS I & II, Intro to CS and Programming. Physics I, II, & III . Probabilistic Systems

Analysis, Math for Computer Science, Differential Equations, Calculus I & II.

Software Projects: Multi-part downloader, ABC music format compiler, IM client.

Fall 2010 Summer 2011 Selwyn College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK

As part of the Cambridge MIT Exchange Program

Course of Study: Computer Science Tripos Part IB

Relevant Coursework: Computation Theory, Complexity Theory, Logic & Proof, Semantics,

Algorithms II, AI I, Computer Design, Compiler Construction, Networking, Databases,

Concurrent/Distributed Systems, Security I, Computer Graphics/Image Processing.

Software Projects: Gesture recognition with graphical interface.

work

Summer 2011 Software Development Engineer Intern, Zillow, Seattle, WA

(10 weeks) Designing and improving the functionality of a property recommendation system using data-

mining techniques primarily in Java. Involved designing and implementing a periodic

MapReduce jobflow on Amazon Web Services.

Summer 2010 Software Development Engineer Intern, Amazon, Seattle, WA

(12 weeks) Used Java to create an algorithm utilizing customer data to rank the importance of and

identify missing refinements. Extended an existing web-tool to prototype project. Project

appears on website today as the Features refinement bin.

Fall 2009 Spring 2010 Lab Assistant, MIT Department of EECS, Cambridge, MA

Assisted teaching staff to prepare materials before class/set up and run labs for 6.01 (Intro to

EECS I) and 6.042 (Math for CS). Facilitating productive teamwork within student groups so

that they effectively worked through material.

Winter Fall 2009 Undergraduate Researcher, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA

Designed, created, and gathered data for a mood -sensitive Bayesian classifier specific (but not

limited) to Twitter. Implemented the web architecture for a social productivity project using

Ruby on Rails. Wrote Facebook data-acquiring plug-ins for social desktop application.

activities

Summer 2009 Present Arts Staff Writer for The Tech, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Writing concert, album, film, etc. reviews for MIT s primary newspaper.

Fall 2009 Fall 2010 Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Participated in yearlong program to develop skills necessary for success in engineering

leadership. Awarded most successful team in weeklong workshop.

skills

Programming Languages: Java, Python, C/C++

Topics & Technologies: Graph algorithms (DFS/BFS, shortest paths, maximum flow), geometric algorithms (convex

hull, intersecting segments), data structures (BSTs, binary/binomial/Fibonacci heaps, hash

tables), design patterns (state machines, interpreters, visitors), DPLL SAT solver, thread

safety, network protocols, Bayesian classifiers, feedback & control, gestural recognition, data-

mining, MapReduce.

Other: Conversational Mandarin Chinese and French.

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