Sergey Sigelman

1876 West 12th Street<  Brooklyn, NY 11223

(917) 916-1738  <  ss1792@columbia.edu

 

Profile:

A quick learner, enthusiastic and original in developing software, indispensable for your programming needs.

 



Education:

Columbia University   New York NY                      

September 2000–May 2001

Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

 

MS in Computer Science

            May 2001

GPA: 3.6

 

Yeshiva University   New York NY

September 1996 – May 2000

BA in Computer Science

May 2000

GPA: 3.9/4.0

 

 







Technical Skills:         

        Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, MSDOS, Windows

        Programming Languages: C, C++, Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0, Microsoft Visual  

                Basic 6.0, Java, JavaScript, Perl, XMLPerl, UNIX shell script, Standard ML

        Other Technologies: SQL, HTML, CGI, XML, CSS, XSL, SAX, Java3D, MFC,

   JFC, JSP, Java Servlets

        Network Protocols: TCP/UDP/IP, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, Telnet, Kerberos

        Integrated Development Environments: Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, JBuilder, Sun Forte

        Applications: Microsoft Office Suite

 

Honors and Awards:

Dr. Samuel Belkin Academic Scholarship

1996 – 2000

The Kirschner Trust Academic Scholarship

1998 – 2000

Recognized twice by The National Dean's List

1998 – 2000

Gertrude Nissenbaum Memorial Award for Excellence in Computer Science

May 2000

             

Experience:

Columbia University, Research in Computer Science

September 2000 – Present

Computer Programmer, Natural Language Processing Group

   

 Projects: 

          ˇ    Member of the Government-sponsored Digital Libraries Project, creating the  

  technology to make the latest medical advances be immediately available to 

  doctors’ inquiries (September 2000 – Present; full-time since June 2001)

   ·  Compile and maintain an XML-based corpus of medical texts

   ·  Create heavy-weight text processing tools and utilities

   ·  Write scripts to maintain project-specific information and evaluate system performance

   ·  Integrate components made by individual groups into a single system

   ·  Support, debug and expand pre-existing code

   ·  http://www.cs.columbia.edu/diglib/PERSIVAL/

 

          ˇ     Member of the SDARTS project, ‘wrapping’ different on-line and off-line data sources         

              to be accessible via a common interface (February 2001 – Present)

   ·  Develop the Java back end, which formats data, supports communication, and executes queries

   ·  Create a web-based front end using Java Servlets, which dynamically finds out the capabilities of           

       any given back end and presents the user with an interface to test and use the available features

   ·  Write documentation for both the end users and the future developers

   ·  Support, debug, test and expand pre-existing code

   ·  http://sdarts.cs.columbia.edu/

 

ˇ            Member of the TIDES project, developing a practical, multilingual and multidocument

information tracking and summarization system (full-time since June 2001)

·  Combine a web crawler with several natural language processing tools to automatically  

    produce a website with daily summaries of the latest news 

    (http://www.cs.columbia.edu/nlp/newsblaster)

·  Make the summarizer be commercially available by communicating with potential

    customers to design and implement a common protocol, through which text can be sent   

    to the server and the resulting summaries can be sent back to the client

·  Evaluate system performance and perform regular maintenance

·  Debug and expand pre-existing code

               ·  http://www.cs.columbia.edu/nlp/projects.html


     Independent Research:

   The minimax algorithm for two-player games with no element of chance: apha-beta cutoff,     

   transposition table, move ordering, iterative deepening, zero window searches;   

   implementation and comparison of various algorithms in a game of checkers with   

   Windows GUI. (http://www.angelfire.com/games3/russiancheckers)

Publications:

Simone Teufel, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Kathleen R. McKeown, Desmond   

A. Jordan, Kathleen M. Dunn, Sergey Sigelman, Andre Kushniruk,

    “Personalizing Retrieval of Journal Articles for Patient Care”

                AMIA, 2001

 

Language Skills:  Fluent in Russian, literate in Hebrew


Hobbies: Reading, biking, AI-based game programming