I am currently a Senior at the University of Maryland studying Computer Science (with a Data Science concentration) and Mathematics (with a Statistics conentration). I've always been interested in technology and entrepreneurship, which is why I spent the Summer of 2017 on the TAMID Fellowship working for a startup called Neura in Tel Aviv.
I spent a year as the president of the Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity at the University of Maryland. In that time, we raised over $18K for Children's Miracle Network, won the university's "Outstanding Community Service Award," and hosted events to end the stigma surrounding mental health issues.
Once I start a project, it's easy for me to get lost in my work until I have a product I'm proud of.
In my spare time, I'm often playing piano or guitar, outside shooting hoops, or watching any of Boston's sports teams bring home titles. I'm always working on a project. Whether it is just to learn a new technology or make a useful tool for myself, I feel the need to constantly occupy my time with something I'm passionate about.
About
- > Will.home|
- => "Boston, MA"
- > Will.majors
- => "Computer Science and Mathematics"
- > Will.honorsProgram
- => "Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program"
- > Will.gpa
- => 3.63
- > Will.skills
- => Web Development: [ HTML, CSS, Javascript, Meteor, React Js, Amazon Web Services ]
- Mobile Development: [ Swift, React Native, Corona SDK (Lua), Unity 3D ]
- Other Languages: [ Python, Java, Scala, C, Ruby, OCaml ]
- Data: [ SQL, MongoDB, Apache Spark, Elasticsearch ]
- > Will.computerScienceCourses
- =>
{
Spring 2018: [ Introduction to Data Science, Introduction to Machine Learning, Practical Deep Learning ]
Fall 2017: [ Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Database Design, Practical Cloud Computing With AWS ]
Spring 2017: [ Organization of Programming Languages, Algorithms ]
Fall 2016: [ Introduction to Computer Systems ]
Spring 2016: [ Object Oriented Programming II, Discrete Structures ]
Fall 2015: [ Object Oriented Programming I ]
} - > Will.mathCourses
- =>
{
Spring 2018: [ Advanced Calculus, Introduction to Statistics ]
Fall 2017: [ Applications of Linear Algebra ]
Spring 2017: [ Introduction to Probability Theory ]
Fall 2016: [ Introduction to Linear Algebra ]
Spring 2016: [ Differential Equations ]
Fall 2015: [ Calculus III ]
}
This past summer, I worked at Mathworks as an intern in the Engineering Development Group. Throughout the summer, I was working with the Editor Tools team, working on a few different projects. I started by working on an internal testing tool, increasing the scalability by automating active projects and monitoring them to automatically update the system if they went unused as well as email users to close/update their campaigns. My second project involved creating a new way to view matlab while retaining iteractive controls from the live editor. Throughout the summer, I worked with multiple different teams to implement my work into different Mathworks online services, worked to test and deploy my code with new plugins, and present my work to different teams overseeing new products my work would impact.
Throughout the summer, I was working on methods to monitor users of Neura. In the time I was there, Neura's user base skyrocketed and scalability became a factor I had to consider. I started by migrating user data from MongoDB to Elasticsearch and monitoring with Kibana. I then switched to querying in SQL with Amazon Athena over raw data in S3. After working with the head of data science and the CTO, I developed an Apache Spark job to go over the data in S3, analyze it, and then output minimal data into Kibana to visualize the trends in a meaningful way.
Zeta Beta Tau
Last year, I had the pleasure of leading a group of over 90 men through their college experience. During that time, I increased event participation through implementing an incentives based system, increased community service in the hundreds of hours, grown our philanthropy donations by thousands of dollars, as well as dealt with every problem as it has arisen. I grew through learning to adapt to problems and come up with optimal solutions even when there were various roadblocks in place. I led over 25+ standing committees, as well as personally managed our housing budget of over $250K which was previously operating at a deficit before I took over.
TAMID Group is a student-run organization which consults for startups in the Israeli economy, focused on the technology hub in Tel-Aviv. As part of TAMID Group, I was the project manager for a company called Papaya Global, and led a team through market research on the American economy as it related to their product. I am currently consulting for a startup called "PaparazMe," where I am working on setting up a campus ambassador program for the company.
During my time at the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School, I learned about DNA Microarray technology and bioinformatics. I completed hands on procedural tests on cells infected with ALS and Cancer and then followed these tests by analyzing the results in R. At the end of the summer, I wrote over 40 pages on my research, tests, and results.
PhotoTagger:
github.com/will108/phototagger
The most annoying part of taking photos with friends is the point when everyone asks to be sent the same photo of the group. PhotoTagger solves this problem by automatically sharing photos with those who appear in them the moment they are taken. This is done with facial recognition so that everyone who appears in the photo receives it without the need to go through the effort of sharing each one.
PhotoTagger is built with React Native and relies on:
- AWS S3
- AWS DynamoDB
- AWS Rekognition
- AWS Lambda
- Facebook SDK (for logging in)
National Hillel Basketball Tournament
The National Hillel Basketball Tournament attracts thousands of students from around the country on UMD's Campus. I built an app to provide participants with live scores of the games, events occuring during the tournament weekend, and social features like sharing photos and videos from the weekend. Users can make accounts and get notifications when their teams are playing, and tournament administrators have accounts to add teams, games, events, and update live scores on the go.
The app also monitors the tournaments, keeps track of standings based on team stats, and decides which teams play next based on a variety of factors.
The NHBT app is built with React Native and relies on many AWS products including S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, and SNS.
