Personal

• e-mail: [email protected]

EDUCATION

• Sep 2007-May 2009
  Dual-Enrolled High School Student
  Home Educated/Valencia Community College
• Spring 2012
  Semester Abroad Program
  Aquinicum Institute of Technology, Budapest, Hungary
• Expected Graduation: May 2013
  Bachelor of Arts
  Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
  

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION RECEIVED

• 2008- AP Scholar with Distinction
• 2008- 3rd Place Programming Team in UCF State High School Programming Competition
• 2008- Valencia Community College President’s List         
• 2009- Phi Theta Kappa (Valencia Community College)
• 2009-2013- Disney Scholar
• 2009- Eagle Scout
• 2009- 5th Place Programming Team in UCF State High School Programming Competition
• 2010-2013 Mac IT Scholar
• 2010- Spring Semester: Macalester College Dean’s List
• 2011- Accepted into AIT-Budapest Program
• 2011- Fall Semester: Macalester College Dean’s List

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• May 2010-August 2010
  Physics Department, Macalester College
  • Worked with Professor Joshua Nollenberg
  • Created a Weak Gravitational Lensing Simulation
  • Implemented a Ray Tracing Algorithm in C
• May 2011-December 2011
  Research Assistant
  Physics Department, Macalester College
  • Worked with Professor James Heyman
  • Created a Terahertz Spectroscopy System
  • Developed an experiment to test the electromagnetic properties of graphene
    after exposed to Mid-Infrared Light
  • Pump/probe experiment
• Sep 2011-December 2011
  Programmer
  Computer Science Department, Macalester College
  • Worked with Professor Yu Zhang and other students
  • Created a Multi Agent System (MASGenomicAnalyzer)
  • System tested how different genetic SNPs interacted with regards to disease,
    with an emphasis on being able to model epitasis
  • Created the genetic algorithm inside each agent.
  • Worked on general agent intelligence

EMPLOYMENT

• Sep 2009-Jan 2010
  Library Tech Support
  Macalester College
• May 2010-August 2010
  Summer Research Assistant
  Macalester College
• May 2011-August 2011
  Summer Research Assistant
  Macalester College
  

PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE

• Know Java, C, C++, Python, Prolog
• Worked with FORTRAN, Labview, Mathematica
  

Special Projects

• May 2009
  Pac-Hero
  Valencia Community College
  3D First-Person Adventure Game
• December 2009
  MovieRecommender
  Macalester College
  • Movie Recommender System
  • Recommends movies based on user's past likes
• December 2010
  CarnEater/PoisonPlant
  Macalester College
  • Modeled evolution of 'eaters' based on how many plants they ate
  • Genetic algorithms that breed individuals in different environments
  • CarnEater allows individuals to eat each other instead of just plants
  • PoisonPlant created 'bad' plants that the eaters had to avoid.
• May 2011
  Encryption/Decryption via Chaotic Circuits
  Macalester College
  • Worked with another student
  • Created a chaotic circuit
  • Circuit encrypted input signal with chaotic noise
  • Recovered encrypted signal after passing encrypted signal through decrypter
• December 2011
  My1600Grand
  Macalester College
  • Worked with two other students
  • Android Application that retrieved data from Macalester's website
  • Presented information in an easy format for Android phones to read