I am currently entering my last semester at UBC in the Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS) program. There are too many topics I would love to continue to learn and not enough time. My main academic interests are algorithms, machine learning, and data mining. Using linear regression, association rule mining, and clustering algorithms, I recently completed a project aiming to find predictive models and relationships between video screencasts and student success using real data from a first year engineering course at UBC. I am looking forward to expanding my knowledge in these areas with more courses in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Mining, and Theory of Computation in the fall.
During my internship at Tasktop Technologies, I learned valuable object-oriented design principles while writing production level code. Working on Tasktop Dev, as well as the open source project, Mylyn, allowed me to gain a handle on some of Java's useful libraries. Mockito and JUnit for test driven development, Guava for manipulating collections and strings as well as for caching, and JGit for use with the Gerrit API are just some of the libraries with which I grew acquainted.
In my personal projects, I have discovered how fun a full Javascript stack can be using Node, Express, and Mongoose/MongoDB for the backend of some of my personal projects and tinkering with Angular and jQuery for the frontend. I have not shied away from the longer standing technologies, however, and have built a basic foundation in SQL, and played around with C/C++ and Python.