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EDUCATION
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
Majoring in Computer Science and Linguistics
Anticipated graduation April 2015
WORK EXPERIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh, PA Sep 2014 - Present
Research Assistant
Code Reddit posts for stance and alignment (sentiment analysis)
Program web scraper using Python and BeautifulSoup to automate data
collection
VOCI TECHNOLOGIES Pittsburgh, PA Jan 2014 - Aug 2014
Intern
Coded trigram-based algorithms in Python/NLTK to improve analytics tools
and filter out meaningful data from large data sets via POS tagging and
pattern recognition.
Built web frontend for speech-to-text and natural language understanding
applications using Node.js and RESTful APIs
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh, PA Jan 2014 - Apr 2014
Teaching Assistant
Served as teaching assistant for the course "Fundamentals of Text
Processing"
Taught Python to linguists, with a focus on linguistics-related tools and
tasks.
NORTHEAST HEALTH SYSTEMS Beverly, MA Jun 2012 - Aug 2012
Intern
Performed data entry on medical records
Shadowed various IT professionals
TECHNOLOGIES
Proficient in Python/NLTK, Java, C/C++, HTML, JavaScript/jQuery, PHP/MySQL,
Google App Engine
Experience developing web applications in Node.js, Backbone.js,
Knockout.js, Angular
Experience using and developing with automated testing frameworks such as
JUnit
PROJECTS
http://what-open.appspot.com/
Built website that tracks what restaurants are currently open around the
user's location
Using Python/Google App Engine, jQuery, and RESTful APIs
LING 1330: Intro to Computational Linguistics
Analyzed sentence structure using NLTK parsers
Programmed a trigram-based part of speech tagger and sentence tokenizer
that processed fiction
CS 1501: Algorithm Implementation
Implemented the bzip(2) compression algorithm, using the Burrows-Wheeler
transform and move-to-front encoding
732 S Millvale Ave, Apt. C1
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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