August 2005-Present

University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Computer Science Graduate Student.  GPA: 3.57

June 2003

Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA

Bachelor of Arts.  Major in Computer Science, Minor in Math.  GPA: 3.81 Overall, 3.92 Major

2005

Phi Beta Kappa Fellowship

2005

Verizon Fellowship for outstanding academic achievement

2003

Phi Beta Kappa national honor society member

2002

Association for Women in Mathematics member

2000-2003

Hajime Mitarai Scholarship for an outstanding international student at Swarthmore College

1999-2000

Swarthmore College Scholarship

1999

American Universities Alumni of Malaysia Award for academic excellence

1997

Informatics Outstanding Student Award for academic excellence

Application Developer

August 2003- June 2005

JPMorgan Chase, New York, NY

·   Designed, implemented, and tested a new algorithm and additional functionalities for PAT (Platform for Algorithmic Trading), a client-server algorithmic trading application developed in Java.  PAT is a reactive system which executes orders based on trading strategies, historical profiles of stocks, and close monitoring of the market.

·     Built new features in C# for the PAT front-end application.

·   Enhanced web application implemented with Struts to provide an interface for management of users, orders, order routing preferences, and electronic communication network connectivity.

·   Gathered business requirements from users on various trading desks. Documented use cases and authored design specifications.

·     Tracked project plan and coordinated testing of server-side application with front-end team.

·   Prepared usage and status reports for management review. Produced ad hoc reporting and analysis using MS Access, R, and Perl.

Intern

Summer 2002

JPMorgan Chase, New York, NY

·   Improved the performance of Hedgehog, an automated trading application used by equity derivative traders for hedging, by redesigning and developing a Java application that processes execution reports and facilitates straight through processing to middle office.

·     Enhanced application that reports daily trading activities on NASDAQ to NASD.

Intern

Summer 2001

e-Business Exchange Pte. Limited, Penang, Malaysia

·   Developed a web-based skills assessment application using JSP, servlets, and JDBC for use in the company’s hiring process.

Teaching Assistant

Fall 2005- Present

Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, MD

·    Teach two lab sections for Object-Oriented Programming II. 

·   Lead discussion sections, help students learn to design, build, test, and debug medium-size Java programs, hold office hours, grade quizzes and exams.

Research Assistant

Summer 2003

Department of Computer Science, Swarthmore College, PA

·    Researched prediction and abstraction mechanisms for unsupervised robot learning.

·  Developed a robot control system consisting of self-organizing maps and neural networks for learning and associating sensorimotor data with the environment.

Co-coordinator

Spring 2003

Swarthmore Women in Computer Science, Swarthmore College, PA

·    Co-coordinated a mentoring program for women in computer science. 

·   Matched students in introductory courses with mentors, and organized various group activities.

Clinician

Spring 2003

Department of Computer Science, Swarthmore College, PA

·    Ran a help clinic to assist students in UNIX and C with programming assignments.

Tutor

Fall 2002

Dean’s Office, Swarthmore College, PA

·    Tutored a computer science student on programming fundamentals in C. 

Grader

2000-2001

Department of Computer Science and Department of Mathematics, Swarthmore College, PA

·   Graded weekly assignments for UNIX and C (Fall 2001), Discrete Mathematics (Spring 2001), and Linear Algebra (Fall 2000).

Term Research Project

Fall 2005

Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, MD

SensoClean: Handling Noisy and Incomplete Data in Sensor Networks using Statistical Modeling

·   Collaborated with two graduate students to develop a toolkit that implements Kalman filter and regression modeling, supports data cleaning, interpolation and extrapolation, and provides data analysis tools and visualization.

·   Explored effectiveness of Kalman filter and regression for capturing spatio-temporal correlations and cleaning sensor network data.

Open Source Project

Summer 2003

Department of Computer Science, Swarthmore College, PA

Pyro (Python Robotics)

·   Worked on enhancements to the self-organizing map module of Pyro, an open source, python-based, integrated programming environment used in undergraduate and graduate level robotics and artificial intelligence courses.

Senior Research

Project

Spring 2003

Department of Computer Science, Swarthmore College, PA

A Minimally Supervised Malay Affix Learner

·   Developed a minimally supervised system for learning Malay affixation, using an algorithm that focused on identifying and extracting morphological relationships from text corpora via orthographic analysis, and building an affix inventory via a semantic-based approach.

Term Research

Project

Spring 2003

Department of Computer Science, Swarthmore College, PA

Towards Self-Organized Place Recognition

·     Collaborated with a fellow student to research place recognition and localization.

·   Developed an artificial neural control system for controlling robot behavior and extracting regularities from time-series sensorimotor information.  Used a simple recurrent network to learn motor control, and a self-organizing map to classify the network’s hidden states into coherent segments corresponding to a robot’s spatial location and behavior.

Computer Science

·   Graduate: Data Management in New Emerging Environments, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Research in Software Engineering.

·   Undergraduate: UNIX and C, Structure and Interpretation of Programs, Algorithms and Object-Oriented Computing, Network Modeling, Operating Systems, Computer Architecture, Compilers, Artificial Intelligence, Developmental Robotics, Theory of Computation.

Mathematics

·  Calculus, Multivariable Calculus, Linear Algebra, Discrete Mathematics, Combinatorics, Statistics, Abstract Algebra.

OS

UNIX/Linux, Windows, Macintosh

Languages

Java, C#, C, Scheme, Python, Perl

Applications

R, Eclipse, IntelliJ, Visual Studio .NET