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:

• 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/
• 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://www.cs.columbia.edu/~dli2test/
• 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