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
    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