First version of Taltosoid - A supernumerary robotic finger. Prototyped in my wearable course.
Sprite GAN training example for computational photography coursework
High fidelity mockup redesign of the Universal Robots control interface for HCI coursework
Detailed categorical interactive visualization of Amazon dataset for HCI coursework
Interactive overview visualization of Amazon dataset for HCI coursework
First version of Taltosoid - A supernumerary robotic finger. Prototyped in my wearable course.
Sprite GAN training example for computational photography coursework
University of Wisconsin - Madison
During my time at UW Madison, I achieved the following degree:
Master of Science
- Major: Computer Science
My goal was to take the engineering acumen developed in undergrad and build on top various skills in robotics, research, additional computer science, and user experience.
I have found my interest is heavily within application over developing theory. I am not interested in being a mathematician, who happens to think about compute problems. I enjoy tackling engineering problems utilizing mathematics, science, and practical knowledge to build a real system that interacts with real users with all of the messy bits that happens when a system is physically situated.
During graduate school I also worked as a research assistant and teaching assistant. Please see my career section - UW Madison for details regarding this as it heavily shaped my experience during this degree.
Courses
Below are the courses taken during my time at UW Madison. I have broken them up by major theme for perusal.
HCI
CS534 - Computational Photography
- Learned representations and algorithms for enhancing digital photographs
- Final project (self-selected) : Convolutional neural network to generate video game sprites
CS770 - Human-Computer Interaction (Research Methods)
- Learned various methods to generate good research questions, conduct, and analyze user experience research
- Various tools included: ethnographies, interviews, talk-alouds, grounded theory analysis, ANOVA/t-tests, etc.
- Several self-selected projects, each using different tools during study and analysis
CS518 - Wearable Technology
- Studied fabric/cloth construction methods and its interaction with wearable electronic systems
- Project focused course : developed version one of Taltosoid
CS570 - Human-Computer Interaction (Application)
- Learned how to iteratively design / develop an existing system to be more user friendly
- Exploring breakdowns, wire-framing, high-fidelity prototypes, etc.
- Project focused course : iterated over UR Polyscope software
CS765 - Data Visualization
- Learned theories of visualization and how to apply these into aesthetic / functional designs
- Several projects, for example visualizing Amazon categorical item data
CS839 - Core Topics in Computing : HCI Topics : Modeling User Interaction
- Learned methods of modeling user interaction with system
- Explicit models like keystroke / ergonomic strain
- Eye-tracking, gesture tracking, etc.
- Implicit machine-learning methods
- Final project (self-selected) : Used several machine learning methods to predict synchrony within a dyad.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
CS540 - Intro to Artificial Intelligence
- Overview course of various AI techniques
- Formal logic, Bayesian, search, game theory, etc.
CS760 - Machine Learning
- Dove into the mathematical underpinning of ML
CS766 - Computer Vision
- Dove into algorithms and techniques used in computer vision
- Various feature construction techniques, SIFT, Convolutional nets, etc.
- Final Project : Gestalt informed classification of various facial anomalies to known syndromes using closed-access medical data
CS525 - Linear Optimization
- Learned (and worked through proofs on) the mathematics behind linear optimization
Systems
CS759 - HPC for application in Engineering
- Three themes of parallelized compute covered
- GPU acceleration (CUDA)
- CPU acceleration (OpenMP)
- Cluster compute (MPI)
- Various projects, final project was a large scale collision detection problem
CS752 - Advanced Computer Architecture
- Worked through single core super-scalar architecture and performed literature review
- Final project developed a LSTM instruction predictor as an upper limit for feasible prediction
CS642 - Intro to Information Security
- Studies cryptography and various common vulnerabilities
- Multiple projects, each requiring some exploit technique
Independent Study / Masters Research
CS799 - Master's Research (fall, spring, & summer)
- Done in conjunction with my Research Assistant position : mostly worked on the ITER project.