Wellesley College

Crystal Springs Uplands School

Undergraduate Researcher @ MIT  -  CS @ Wellesley College

Assistant Staff working in Division 4 Homeland Protection & Air Traffic Control

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Software Engineer

Group 46 Homeland Protection Systems Intern. Contributed to a highly modular US Air Defense Software System by developing GraphYAML, a tool written in python that takes YAML configuration files as input and generates comprehensive visualizations.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory Intern

Clare Boothe Luce Scholar

Computer-Human Interaction for Learning and Instruction (CHILI) Lab
Co-author in “Efficacy of a 'Misconceiving' Robot to Improve Computational Thinking in a Collaborative Problem Solving Activity: A Pilot Study” accepted to IEEE RO-MAN 2022, and nominated for Best Student Paper.

EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)

Summer@EPFL Researcher

Worked on a semester-long reinforcement learning research project mentored by Brown RL PhD candidate

Brown University

Google exploreCSR Researcher at Brown University

• Project Us is a suite of technologies for augmenting communication with information about the emotional states of the user based on physiological signals and audio to promote empathy during conversations.
• Responsible for leading user studies, user experience/piloting, Natural Language Processing, and supporting software/hardware development. 
• https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/project-us/overview/
• Co-authored in “Enhancing Empathy Through Emotion Augmented Remote Communication” published to CHI 2022.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Undergraduate Researcher at MIT Media Lab

• Wrote Python scripts for data analysis using the pandas library.
• Organized and calculated financial model training data and developed functions in Microsoft Excel.

Employee Stock Option Fund (ESO Fund)

Intern at Employee Stock Option ESO Fund

Volunteering to teach weekly STEM workshops to local elementary girls

Wellesley Robogals Volunteer and Co-President

• Planned workshops for Wellesley CS Club members and student body on Arduino, Virtual Reality, Command Line, etc. 
• https://csclub.wellesley.edu/

Wellesley College Computer Science Club Workshop Chair

CS Coursework: Data Structures (Java), Computer Networks (Python), Algorithms, Foundations of Computer Systems (C), Databases and Web Interfaces (SQL), Computer Graphics, Front-end Web Development, HCI
Mathematics: Multivariable Calculus, Linear Algebra, Combinatorics & Graph Theory, Statistics

Student at Wellesley College

• Guided high school interns to develop an Olfaction Communication System that can smell, identify, and synthesize an odor over any length of distance.
• Built an electronic nose that measures odorants and synthesis machine for emission using Arduino, developed a web app for data processing, performed PCA analysis, utilized Firebase.
• https://theinformaticists.com/2020/08/25/olfaction-communication-system/

Alexandra Chin