I am currently a member of the class of 2010 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, majoring in Computer Science and Management. Previously, I attended St. John’s High School and the Massachusetts Academy of Mathematics and Science for two years each. In high school, enjoyed, in no particular order, FIRST Robotics, Academic Decathlon, competitive mathematics, piano, guitar, martial arts, and freelance programming.

Hobbies

Among other things, I’m quite fond of music in almost all of its forms, and play guitar and piano in my spare time. I also attempt to sing occasionally, much to the dismay of anyone who is caught nearby, and cultivate a healthy snobbery in musical tastes, with the requisite disdain (and secret craving) for boy band music.  I am currently the director of the Harmonic Series: a small, co-ed a capella group at MIT.

I also dance for MIT DanceTroupe, dabbling in hip-hop when allowed, although “acting thug” is still a skill that completely escapes me.  I am the current Vice President of MIT Imobilare, MIT’s premiere breakdancing group.

Professional

For the summer before my senior year of high school up until leaving for college, I worked as a part-time software engineer at Checkerboard Ltd., a custom stationary company. There, I assisted in maintaining the company’s FreeBSD servers, helped develop the company’s order entry system, developed and subsequently used a Spring-integrated AJAX JSP tag library, migrated the company’s CVS repositories to Subversion, and developed and deployed a comment task tag parsing Ant task.

Starting the second semester of my freshman year and continuing through the summer, I did research with the SIMILE group at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) through the UROP program at MIT under the guidance of David Huynh and Professor David Karger.  My area of research concerned the development of Semantic Web technologies in general, and specifically the development of the Exhibit data presentation framework. I also worked on a dynamic Javascript-driven event/calendar rendering system, called Timegrid.

For the month of January 2008, I worked as an intern at the Webahead team for IBM Cambridge on Spectacular!, a distributed feed aggregator and reader, doing some UI work with Javascript calling a JSON REST API and also experimenting with generating useful relevancy metrics using Hadoop MapReduce jobs on feed and entry data.

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