Nick Frosst

My work has a teaching assistant has been both educational and rewarding. I am assisting with an introductory class for students with no prior math or computer knowledge. This has provided me with a unique opportunity to explain and explore ideas to people who have never thought about them before. To make matters even more interesting, the class is being taught in Racket! I also TA a second year computational theory course.

I work on visual saliency prediction algorithms, focusing on benchmarking and optimization. Vision science is a relatively new field for me, but i am thoroughly enjoying it thus far.

At Google I worked on the machine learning team. I was responsible for switching the

team's main ML model from Boosting Trees to Neural Networks. This required working extensively

with Google Brain and customizing it for our use case. Google Brain is an incredibly powerful neural

network package and it was an incredible experience to work with and contribute to it.

I work on S3, a cloud storage service provided by AWS. The most enjoyable aspect of the work is the sheer scale at which amazon functions. S3 is a behemoth and it is thoroughly enjoyable to try to tame it..

My work at Snakes and Lattes, a board game cafe, is motivated by my love of board games, beer, coffee, and meeting people. Although it is removed from computer science it has been a very enjoyable and rewarding experience.

I did a variety of consulting for Lavasoft, including work on the integration of a project with some existing open source software, and work on improving the corporate image of the company.

Over the course of the two summer terms during which I worked at Alcatel-Lucent, I was predominantly focused on writing perl tools that generate C code during the build process in order to eliminate the need for legacy code and to automate some of the work of the designers. I also worked on integrating this tool with and speeding up the build process using Make.