To advance my understanding of Computer Science and explore the areas of programming languages, machine learning, and software engineering. My current goal is to earn a Ph.D. in Computer Science and pursue research in either academia or industry.

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ

• Ph.D. Computer Science 2012
• Focus: Programming Languages

University of Washington

Seattle, WA GPA 3.64 / 4

• Major in Computer Science June, 2006 GPA 3.74 / 4

Brain-Computer Interfaces

, Autumn 2005 - Summer 2007

• Under Prof. Rajesh Rao.
• Using ECoG and EEG sensors to classify brain-signals.

OS Research/Project

, Spring 2005

• Under Prof. Gary Kimura
• Tracking semaphore and "mutant" (mutex) usage throughout the Windows 2000 kernel.

Research Assistant

, Summer 2006 - Summer 2007

• University of Washington, under Prof. Rajesh Rao
• brain-computer interfaces

Computer Analyst

, October 2006 - August 2007

• Howard Hughes Medical Institute, under Prof. Fred Rieke
• Porting code to OS X, helping lab-members write code for their experiments

Teaching Assistant

• Software Engineering, under Gail Alverson, Spring 2006
• Software Engineering, under Doug Johnson, Winter 2006
• Intro. to Compiler Construction, under Prof. Craig Chambers, Autumn 2005
• Intro. Programming I, under Stuart Reges, Spring 2005

Head Tutor for Computer Science

, October 2003 - Spring 2006

• Office of Minority Affairs, University of Washington

Microsoft Intern

, Summer of 2005

• Worked with the Avalon team as a Software Design Engineer in Test.

InkTactics

• A real-time strategy game for TabletPCs
• Team project with 5 other friends

Othello

• Combines the minimax algorithm with a neural-network.
• Wrote a feed-forward network with back-propagation learning.

GML Interpreter

• A language based on ML, but oriented for mathematical calculations. When complete, I plan to write a new graphing-calculator program based on it (see Grapher).

Grapher

, 2000 - 2002 (high-school) (see my webpage)

• A graphing calculator. Notable achievements include graphing n-space objects (not restricted to 3D) and attaining a wide audience of users from throughout the world.

Reverse engineering

, (x86, ARM)

• Created a program to use a proprietary remote control with my computer by reverse-engineering its drivers.

Languages

• C++, C#, Java, ML, C, ARM, Intel x86, PHP, Pascal, BASIC, XML, CSS

API, Libs, & Tools

• C++ STL, Boost, lex, yacc, DirectX, OpenGL, Win32, Avalon (WPF), BCI2000

Misc. Programs

• Matlab, various compilers and editors

Overall, I enjoy being creative and exploring. The latter is satisfied by hiking, skiing, reading, and learning. I express my creativity not only by programming, but also by drawing, playing trombone (jazz & concert band), and making sculptures from bending and soldering wire together.