Student Assistant

Dino Garofolo

Poughkeepsie NY, ***** 845-***-**** ad5xw4@r.postjobfree.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dino-garofolo/ https://github.com/D-Garofolo Education

STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY STONY BROOK, NY

ACCELERATED B.S./M.S. IN COMPUTER SCIENCE DECEMBER 2024

· Cumulative GPA (M.S.): 3.46

· Cumulative GPA (B.S.): 3.73

· Relevant Coursework: Database Systems (M.S.), Natural Language Processing (M.S.), Software Security (M.S.), Software Development, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science

· Awards/Achievements: Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award (2021), Student Employee of the Year (2022, nominated), University Scholars, Computer Science Honors Program Work Experience

STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY STONY BROOK, NY

STUDENT ASSISTANT, FINANCIAL AID OFFICE SEPTEMBER 2023 - MAY 2024

· Updated chatbot knowledge base to improve automated student assistance

· Designed and implemented structural and visual changes to Financial Aid website

· Laid groundwork for backend updates in ISIR Record storage for 2024-25 aid year STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY STONY BROOK, NY

RECEPTIONIST, FINANCIAL AID OFFICE FEBRUARY 2021 - MAY 2023

· Assisted students with Financial Aid concerns and demonstrated use of student software to prevent future issues

· Hand-picked by supervisors as one of two student employees to attain NASFAA certification in “Student Eligibility” and “Application Process” to better assist students in those areas

· Collaborated with supervisors to create training programs and schedules to assist new student employees with navigating student financial aid database

STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY STONY BROOK, NY

TEACHER’S ASSISTANT AUGUST 2020 - MAY 2021

· Created lesson plans and led recitations for upwards of 20 students based on class performance in homework topics

· Participated in biweekly TA meetings with professor to discuss how to better help students succeed in the course

· Held office hours for class of 60 students, reframed homework/lab problems to help students understand material

· Undertook individual meetings with struggling students to help target weak spots in their comprehension of the curriculum and boost success rate on homeworks/exams Projects

ANNOTATOR BIAS MITIGATION APRIL 2024

· Analyzed UC Berkeley dataset of 136,000 tweets with scores quantifying the text’s toxicity level

· Utilized uniform confusion to evaluate the impact of annotator demographics on the performance of a finetuned RoBERTa model’s hate speech detection

· Improved baseline model performance by 12% using aggregation and reweighting techniques to account for bias in single annotator text scores

CUBE CLICKER JUNE 2023

· Incremental game built as a full stack MERN Application

· MongoDB backend allows efficient storage of all necessary information for users to login and save game progress

· Extensible design allows for game components to be defined outside of code and added with ease

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