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Objective
Summer or part-time research internships focused on sequential decision problems in complex environments.
Education
- University of California, Berkeley — Berkeley, CA
- Ph.D., Computer Science (underway)
- Carnegie Mellon University — Pittsburgh, PA
- B.S., Computer Science (College and University Honors; thesis: The Emergence of Language in Communication Across a Bottleneck)
- B.S., Cognitive Science (University Honors)
Skills
- Programming experience includes individual and collaborative development in C/C++, Java, Matlab, Perl, Standard ML, Prolog and Common Lisp.
- Recent courses include control theory, hybrid systems and reinforcement learning.
Experience
Corporate R & D
- BigTribe Corporation — San Francisco, CA
- Research intern, April 2002-present
- Machine Learning and Applied Statistics, Microsoft Research — Redmond, WA
- Research intern, May-August 2000
- Natural Language Group, Microsoft Corporation — Redmond, WA
- Software design engineer (developer) intern, May-August 1998, May-August 1999
- Language Exploitation Technologies, Lockheed Martin Management & Data Systems — Valley Forge, PA
- Mission Application Engineer intern, May-August 1997
Teaching
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, CS 188
- University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2002
- Research Methods in Cognitive Psychology, 85-310
- Carnegie Mellon University, Spring 1999
- Introduction to Psychology, 85-102
- Carnegie Mellon University, Spring 1998
Publications
Please take a look at my research for more information.
Zimdars, A. L., Chickering, D. M., and Meek, C. (2001). Using temporal data for making recommendations. In Breese, J., and Koller, D. (eds.), Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence: Proceedings of the Seventeenth Conference. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.
Noelle, D. C., and Zimdars, A. L. (1999). Methods for learning articulated attractors over internal representations. In Hahn, M., and Stoness, C. (eds.), Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Organizations
- Member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, and Psi Chi honor societies.
