| Name: Nima Anari (Ahmadipouranari) |
| Email: cs70.anari@gmail.com |
| Office hour: Wednesdays 10-11am, 751 Soda (alcove) |
| Discussion sections: [Section 3, 11-12pm] [Section 4, 12-1pm] |
| Random fact: Nima is a competitive programmer. |
| Undergraduate institution: Sharif University of Technology, Iran |
| Research interests: I am a third-year graduate student working with Satish Rao. Currently I am mostly focused on online learning algorithms with some combinatorial optimization twists. Several weather forecasters tell you whether it's rain or shine each day. Do you take an umbrella with you or not? I work on algorithms for (more sophisticated) problems of this kind. |
Internships:
- D.E. Shaw & Co. (a hedge fund): The problem I worked on was very similar to the weather forecasters problem, but it was in a financial context.
- Facebook : Worked on a statistics prediction model for ads.
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Name: Kate Harrison |
| Email: ucb.ta.kate@gmail.com |
| Office hour: Thursdays 4-5pm, 380 Soda (at the HW party) |
| Discussion sections: [Section 11, 2-3pm] |
| Research website: http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~harriska/ |
| Random fact: Kate has two guinea pigs. |
About: Kate Harrison is a fourth-year graduate student. In 2009, she received a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering as well as a BS in Mathematics from Oregon State University. In 2011, she received a MS in EECS from UC Berkeley.
While at UC Berkeley, she has worked with Anant Sahai to study spectrum whitespaces, a new idea aimed at making more spectrum available for innovators at no cost by using existing spectrum more efficiently. Her work has focused on quantifying the amount of such spectrum which is practically available as well as proposing modifications to regulations which offer increased benefits to all parties involved. One of her papers recently received the 2012 IEEE DySpAN best student paper award. She encourages interested students to ask her about her work as she enjoys sharing her enthusiasm for the subject.
In the summer of 2012, Kate interned at Tarana Wireless, a Berkeley startup aiming to provide non-line-of-sight wireless backhaul for cellular links. While there, she built and maintained a system performance visualization tool to help with troubleshooting.
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Name: Chung-Wei Lin |
| Email: cwlin2013s@gmail.com |
| Office hour: Thursdays 1-2pm, 611 Soda (alcove) |
| Discussion sections: [Section 7, 3-4pm] [Section 8, 4-5pm] |
| Research website: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cwlin/ |
About: Chung-Wei Lin received the B.S. degree in computer science and the M.S.
degree in electronics engineering from the National Taiwan University. He
is currently a 4th-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences. His research includes computer-aided
design of integrated circuits and design automation of embedded systems,
especially automotive systems. He was a summer intern of General Motors in
2011 and 2012.
His current research is the security of automotive systems. In the past,
there was no security mechanism for in-vehicle or vehicle-to-vehicle
communication, but it has become a big issue for vehicle companies now.
How to authenticate a message? How to encrypt/decrypt a message? How to
achieve these goals without generating too much computation or
communication overhead? How to automatically design an automotive system
and meet all requirements? All of these topics involve mathematical
analysis, software design, and hardware implementation. |
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Name: Sridhar Ramesh |
| Email: sridhar.cs70@gmail.com |
| Office hour: Wednesdays 3:30-4:30pm, 611 Soda (alcove) |
| Discussion sections: [Section 5, 1-2pm] [Section 6, 2-3pm] |
| Random fact: Sridhar was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in rural Missouri, later adopting the pen name "Sridhar Ramesh" from the river slang he encountered working steamboats prior to his academic career. |
| Undergraduate institution: Carnegie Mellon University (B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics) |
| Graduate institution: University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D. student in Logic, advised by Dana Scott) |
| Research interests: Sridhar's research interests are in the foundations of mathematics and logic, especially as explored using tools from a branch of mathematics known as category theory. His thesis work specifically investigates a reframing and generalization of the celebrated "incompleteness" results of the logician Kurt Goedel (we will be talking about incompleteness later in CS 70); essentially, he studies concepts such as "proof" and "self-reference" in an abstract but rigorous way in the hopes of bringing clarity to certain traditional paradoxes. He is also interested in the design and analysis of programming languages, which may seem like a completely separate topic, but it's not. |
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Name: Richard Starfield |
| Email: starfield.ta@gmail.com |
| Office hour: Tuesdays 12:30-1:30pm, 5048 VLSB |
| Discussion sections: [Section 9, 5-6pm] [Section 12, 4-5pm] |
| Random fact: Richard sings bass in UC Berkeley a cappella group Drawn to Scale. |
| Undergraduate institution: University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg (B.Sc. in pure mathematics and statistics) |
Research interests: Richard is a graduate student in ESPM, working with Wayne Getz
on models of salmon population in the San Joaquin river delta system. In 2012, he received an MA in Statistics from UC Berkeley.
In the summer of 2012, Richard interned at Google, working on AdWords
optimization. |
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Name: Sibi Venkatesan |
| Email: cs70.sibi@gmail.com |
| Office hour: Thursdays 5-6pm, 380 Soda (at the HW party) |
| Discussion sections: [Section 13, 6-7pm] [Section 15, 4-5pm] |
| Random fact: Sibi enjoys the odd game of League of Legends every once in a while. He also plays soccer and volleyball. |
About:
Sibi is an international undergraduate student from Bengaluru, India. He is in his junior year pursuing a bachelor's degree in EECS.
He is currently working with Professor Pieter Abbeel towards getting robots to perform tasks autonomously that would be useful in households and surgical settings, like towel folding and such.
As a current undergraduate, he could potentially provide some perspective on EECS classes that he has taken/is taking/has heard about and he invites anyone interested to talk to him.
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