Work experience

[05/2007 09/2007]
Google
Mountain View, CA and Pittsburgh, PA
PhD Summer Intern
· Performed research in the areas of Information Extraction and Machine Translation
· Published results appear in the 2008 meetings of both ACL and AAAI
[05/2006 08/2006]
Google
Mountain View, CA
PhD Summer Intern
· Performed research in the area of Information Extraction
· Published results appear in the 2007 meetings of both IJCAI and CIKM
[09/2004 ---]
University of Rochester, Department of Computer Science (URCS)
Rochester, NY
Graduate Student; Research/Teaching Assistant
· Performed research in the area of Computational Semantics
· Assisted in: Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, Natural Language Processing
[08/2002 08/2004]
Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies Institute (LTI)
Pittsburgh, PA
Graduate Student; Research Assistant
· Designed a Controlled Language (CL) specification for English for the purpose of Knowledge Acquisition
· Designed and implemented a number of algorithms for open domain Question Answering
[08/2001 08/2002]
Lockheed Martin, Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL), AI Group
Camden, NJ
Associate Member, Engineering Staff
· Performed industrial R&D pertaining to spoken language systems, human-agent collaboration, and Bayesian networks for military threat detection
[05/2001 08/2001]
BAE Systems, Information & Electronic Warfare Systems (IEWS)
Nashua, NH
Software Developer, Intern
· Maintained military mission planning system written in a combination of C, Ada, Perl, and Unix shell
[12/2000 03/2001]
International Research & Strategy Associates
Sudbury, MA
Web Developer
· Built secure, interactive web site for the distribution of market research material
[09/2000 12/2000]
SANS Institute
Gaithersburg, MD
Security Consultant
· Analyzed computer security reports released by CERT
· Built database of catalogued security vulnerabilities for use in a public search engine
[05/2000 08/2000]
National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)
Gaithersburg, MD
Guest Researcher
· Studied the use of Genetic Algorithms for the purpose of automatically creating signature files for network intrusion detection systems
[09/1999 05/2000]
University of Rochester, Department of Computer Science
Rochester, NY
System Administrator
· Administered Windows NT servers for vision research lab
· Maintained lab security, ensured proper data backups, maintained system uptime
[10/1998 05/2001]
University of Rochester, Micro-Computing Services
Rochester, NY
Technical Assistant, System Administrator
· Administered GNU/Linux server used for University research
· Maintained collection of Windows NT desktops for usage by library patrons
[09/1998 05/2000]
University of Rochester, Department of Computer Science
Rochester, NY
Teaching Assistant
· Assisted in: Artificial Intelligence, Intro to Programming, Intro to Computers