ANDREW WANG

3 Ames St. Box #343                                            
Cambridge, MA 02142                                               
zephyrus@mit.edu 
(617) 584-0900

OBJECTIVE: Summer Internship in the Computer Game Industry.
                                        
EDUCATION:

June 2005, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Candidate Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering. 
GPA 4.8/5.0

RELEVANT COURSES: 

Structure and Interpretations of Computer Programs, Lab for Software
Engineering, Computation Structures, Intro to Artificial Intelligence,
Intro to Algorithms, Computer Language Engineering, Computer Systems
Engineering, Linear Algebra, Machine Learning Approaches for Natural
Language Processing

WORK EXPERIENCE:

- MIT Media Lab Cambridge, MA 
  Research Assistant, Software Agents Group (2/2004 - Present)

  Initiated a project that applies common sense reasoning techniques to
  the problem of object placement in video games.  Implemented in C++.

- Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Cambridge,MA 
  Research Assistant, Spoken Language Systems Group (6/2003 - 12/2003)
                
  Actively developed the dialog manager component, in C, of a language
  Learning system that simulates conversations in the Hotel domain.

  Completed development of a web-based spoken Chinese language learning
  System using Java and JSP. It was delivered to the International
  Technology Research Institute in Taiwan and is under consideration 
  for integration with Chinese language classes at MIT.
        
- Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Cambridge, MA
  Research Assistant, Programming Methodology Group (6/2002 - 12/2002)
    
  Implemented the experimental framework for lazy software upgrades in
  A distributed object oriented database using C.

- MIT Information Services, Cambridge, MA (3/2002 - 9/2003)
  Athena Online Help Consultant
                
  Provided both online and offline technical support for the 
  approximately 10,000 users of MIT's Athena computing system.

- NowOnline, Natick, MA (7/2000 - 9/2000)
  Web Developer 
               
  Designed web sites for several small businesses.  Helped develop a
  catalog of over 50 website templates using Dreamweaver with some CSS
  and HTML.

SKILLS:

Language: Mandarin Chinese
Computer: Java, C/C++, Scheme, Perl, PHP, JSP, SQL, XML, HTML, Linux,
          Windows, Design Patterns, Extreme Programming, OpenGL

AWARDS:

- Fourth place in Robocraft Game AI Programming Competition. 
- Winner of Compiler Derby in Computer Language Engineering class. 
- Best Design Award for group final project, GizmoBall game, in
    Software Engineering class. 
- Letter of Commendation (top 10%) in Software Engineering class and
    Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs class.
- Recognized for creativity and technical ingenuity in an adventure
    game in Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs class.

ACTIVITIES:

- MIT Student Emergency Medicine Society
  Massachusetts Certified EMT-B. 
  
  Volunteer student EMT for MIT Ambulance Service.