Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

William Fremd High School

Software Engineer at Plaid

San Francisco, California, United States

Plaid

Software Engineer

Designed and implemented instrument aliasing for the FX asset class in Broadway’s commercial software

Broadway Technology

Software Engineering Intern

Designed and wrote a subsystem, Wikiscout, which automatically generates annotations for START, InfoLab's Natural Language Question Answering System

MIT InfoLab at CSAIL

Undergraduate Researcher

- Designed and implemented algorithms for generating images with motion trails effect given input video• Performed image foreground segmentation and blending using machine vision techniques and statistical analyses

Google

- Lab Assistant for 6.031 Elements of Software Construction• Helped students understand concepts related to software construction and improve their coding models• Monitored class Piazza page and answered students' questions• Assisted in improving readings and problem sets for the class

6.031 Lab Assistant

- Identified relations between various emerging market ETFs and country ETFs using data mining techniques • Participated in mock trading games which simulated trading ETFs, equities, and commodities• Attended lectures covering financial topics and derivatives

Jane Street

Assistant Trader

- Taught competition-level math and computer science to middle school to high school students• Taught Scratch, number theory, combinatorics, algebra, and geometry up to the AMC level• Wrote and helped improve the course curriculum

Star League

Math and Computer Science Instructor

- Helped teach topics such as linear time-invariant systems, circuitry, basic graph theory, and Bayesian statistics• Taught students how to program a mobile robot using Python

MIT, 6.01 Introduction to EECS

Lab Assistant

- Analyzed bioimpedance and NMR data from patients undergoing dialysis using R and MATLAB, in search for a non-intrusive hydration sensor• Used nonnegative least squares (NNLS) with Tikhonov regularization to solve multi-exponential curve fitting• Explored the optimal smoothing factor for NNLS using singular-value decomposition and the L-curve criterion

Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT

- Assisted and moderated online classrooms for classes such as Number Theory or Prealgebra• Grading and writing useful feedback for student solutions to problems in Python, Java, and higher mathematics

Art of Problem Solving

Teaching Assistant and Grader

- Modeled synthetic aperture and transduction of sound signals using MATLAB

Industrial Measurement Systems

Engineering Intern

- Wrote MATLAB programs to model transduction of sound signals• Researched ultrasonic thermometry and its uses on predicting erosion on spacecraft

Joanne Lee