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RPI Coursework

Project-focused class utilizing IBM Cloud and IBM Watson. Learned history and theory behind cognitive computing services and systems.
Notable Project: PoetTone, a poetry reader/ tone analyzer/ music player using FLASK/PostgreSQL/IBM Watson Tone Analyzer, and applying natural language processing techniques. For more info, visit the experience page.

Topics: Agile development approaches, daily status reports, risk assessment, user stories/cases, design patterns, UML, project management.
Project-focused class. Developed one final project throughout the year.
Notable Project: Rotini, a customizable browser-based audio visualization software using WebGL, node.js, mongoDB, python, and Angular. For more info, visit the experience page.

Topics: Parallel architectures, MPI, OpenMP, Pthreads, CUDA, MapReduce, transactional memory.
Worked with the "AMOS" Blue Gene/Q supercomputer at RPI.
Wrote scalabale parallel implementations of binary and polynomial calculators and Conway's Game of Life.
Ran speed analyses on different algorithms, function calls, and techniques.

Topics: Camera modeling, image formation, edge detection, motion and tracking, feature extraction/recognition, deep CNNs.
Worked in-class primarily with numpy and cv2. Also worked separately with PIL.
Wrote edge detection algorithms, image classifiers, image alignment/blending algorithms, and seam carve algorithms.

Topics: Unity, decision making, flocking, pathfinding, human-like AI, Expectimax.
Project-focused class. Regularly built demos of AI algorithms.
Notable Project: Dogging Sim, a tale of dog-adoption written with decision trees and fuzzy logic to determine outcomes. For more info, visit the experience page.

Topics: OSI model, network protocol suites, Unix IPC, TCP/UDP, client-side coding.
Set up various multithreaded network clients and implementing standard protocols in C/C++.

Topics: Database design and architecture, SQL, normalization, storage structures, query processing, concurrency control, recovery, security.
Primarily in PostgreSQL. Designed efficient databases and practiced queries through both command line and psycopg2. Queried large html files through lxml and etree.

Topics: Contemporary poetry, creative nonfiction, sensory exercises, elements of poetic craft, poetic forms.
Project-focused classes. Maintained writing journals and completed various writing exercises. Learned to transcribe emotional personal events into artistic compositions. Composed poems of various forms, classic and contemporary.
Notable CNF Piece: Kintsugi
Notable Poetry Pieces: The Origin of Heliotropism | she | Recipe for Biang Biang Mian

Topics: Phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicography, psycholinguistics, natural language understanding.
Courses taught linguistics and explored how language variation (accents / languages / dialects / pidgins / creoles) produces identities and ideologies. Also explored historic socioeconomic inequalities propagated through language, read recent and topical articles, prepared presentations on related topics.
Final Paper: Language, Society, and Transgender Studies, a contemporary visit to how language does and can affect the transgender community.

Topics: Age and origin of the Earth, internal constituents and energy sources, how plates move, oceans develop, and mountains rise, rock and mineral classification.
Ran weekly labs to test and identify specimens. Went on excursions around campus to explore its rich geological history.

Topics: Fallacies, emotional appeals, psychology and sociology of reasoning and belief, deductive/inductive reasoning, statistical/causal reasoning.

Topics: Impact of various biological systems in feeding and drinking, sexual behavior, sleep and arousal, and learning and memory. Studied psychopathology and psychopharmacology.

Topics: Film history, camera and microphone use, shot composition, rule of thirds, 180 degree rule, montage, mockumentaries.
Final Film: Bank Street Kitchen, a short mockumentary.

Topics: Minimax, alpha-beta pruning, Expectimax, Bayesian networks, MDPs, HMMs, SVMs, k-NN.

Topics: Concurrent process management/scheduling, virtual memory, system calls, IPC.

Topics: Software design patterns, refactoring, code verification, GUI programming.

Topics: Time complexity, greedy algorithms, dynamic programming, NP-completeness.

Topics: Rules of logic, probability, formal proofs and regular expressions, languages, finite-state and pushdown automata, Turing machines.

Topics: Implemented data structures like heaps and hash tables. Built custom data structures complete with garbage collection for specific projects.