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Intern – Software Engineer, Ads Ranking Team (summer 2016)

Developed an automated data workflow for processing large scale refunds for advertisers who are billed through both credit cards and invoices
Data Workflow written in the Hive query language, and Python
Results presented to the Ads Serving and Ranking team

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LinkedIn

Intern – Software Engineer, Digits – Growth and Lifecycle Team (summer 2015)

Developed backend Hadoop flow for phone collection splash screen and desktop banner.
Developed parallelizable backend code in Java to map LinkedIn user names to phone numbers for name checking during an address book import.
Results of primary intern project presented to LinkedIn CEO.

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Bloomberg L.P.

Consultant – Software Engineer, Fixed Income – Relative Value/Search Team (fall 2014-spring 2015)

Intern – Software Engineer, Fixed Income – Relative Value/Search Team (summer 2014)

Participated in Fixed Income Search project selected for presentation to Michael Bloomberg
Primary project selected for presentation to Bloomberg Co-Founder & Head of Fixed Income
Developed Advanced Data Analysis, a pivot table toolset for performing “groupbys” and aggregations on all Fixed Income securities using Python and Cython

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Hover Inc.

Intern – Software Engineer, The Prometheus Project (summer 2013)

Developed heat map based point cloud visualization module in Python
Translated code from C++ to Python for “Moneyshot” visualization

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Publications

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Manzini & Ravichander et al. "How Would You Say It? Eliciting Lexically Diverse Dialogue for SupervisedSemantic Parsing". SigDIAL '17. Proceedings of the 18th SigDIAL Conference. In Press.

Manzini, Thomas, Simon Ellis, and James Hendler. "A Play on Words: Using Cognitive Computing as a Basis for AI Solvers in Word Puzzles."Journal of Artificial General Intelligence 6.1 (2015): 111-129 pag. Web.

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Carnegie Mellon University
School of Computer Science

Master of Language Technologies
(Graduating August 2018)

Master of Science in Language Technologies with research experience in semantic parsing, crowdsourcing linguistic datasets, and synthetic speech understanding.

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
School of Science

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
(May 2016)

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with research experience in natural language processing and applications of DeepQA in word puzzles.

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Stanley I. Landgraf Prize ('46)

An annual prize established to honor Stanley Landgraf, Rensselaer Trustee, Acting President of RPI, and friend of the Computer Science Department. The prize is given to the RPI computer science major who excels in leadership skills and academic achievement.

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Member - Palanx Leadership Honors Society

Phalanx Honor Society was founded in 1912 as a way to recognize Rensselaer students who distinguished themselves among their peers in areas of leadership, service, and devotion to the alma mater. Today, Phalanx is Rensselaer’s prestigious senior honor society. Its membership consists of junior, senior, and graduate students. Additionally, members of the RPI community demonstrating dedication and devotion to the Institute are inducted as honorary members to Phalanx.

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President (2015-16) - Upsilon Pi Epsilon, NY Eta Chapter, Computer Science Honors Society

UPE is the first and only international honor society in the Computing and Information Disciplines. The mission of UPE is to recognize academic excellence at both the undergraudate and graudate levels in the Computing and Information Disciplines. It has recieved endorsements from the two largest computer organizations in the world, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS). UPE is also a member of the Association of College Honor Societies.

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Additional Honors & Awards

Rensselaer Leadership Award & Scholarship
RPI Dean's Honor List & RPI Dean's List
Presidential Volunteer Service Award - Gold Level
Presidential Volunteer Lifetime Service Award
RPI Ambulance Most Valuable Member
RPI Ambulance Most Valuable New Member

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Ambulance

Positions Held: Captain, Training Committee Chair
Ranks Achieved: Duty Supervisor, Crew Chief (Trainer), Driver (Trainer)
RPI Ambulance was founded in 1977 as the first EMS agency in Troy and the surrounding area. Today, RPIA serves the RPI campus as well as some of the surrounding towns. Mainly responding to on-campus calls, but also responding to mutual aid calls to Brunswick, North Greenbush (including Wynantskill and Defreestville), and Poestenkill. RPI Ambulance is a student run and operated Basic Life Support (BLS) transporting ambulance agency that serves the RPI campus and surrounding communities. We respond to approximately 150 to 200 calls and provide first aid coverage to about 30 special events every academic year.

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Carnegie Mellon University Emergency Medical Services

Ranks Achieved: Responder
CMU EMS is completely run by students and continues to meet state standards of excellence for patient care. With minimum staffing by at least one EMT and all members certified in CPR and First Aid, CMU EMS provides 24-7 medical coverage and has an average response time of under 5 minutes. Members are commited to serving others and receive no compensation for their time. This includes daily shifts, standby for events, and classes for the community.

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RPI Science Ambassadors

The RPI Science Ambassadors (SA) are an assembly of undergraduate students focused on inspiring a younger audience to explore the role of science in society. The SA's develop highly engaging presentations and hands-on demonstrations to bring science to life in K-12 classrooms, and help students define the relevance between their classroom learning and real world applications.

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