Christine Corbett Moran email: [email protected] Education github: https://github.com/corbett phone: +41.79.762.4499 University of Zurich Ph.D. Candidate, Astrophysics. Expected 2014. University of Zurich M.Sc. Astrophysics. Thesis: AstroViz: A Parallel Visualization Tool for Astrophysical Applications. 2010 - present 2008 - 2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2003 - 2007 S.B. Computer Science and Engineering. Minor: Mathematics. S.B. Physics. Minor: Philosophy. Advanced Undergraduate Project: Transliteration for Multilingual Search Applications. Technical Skills Tools: Python, Ruby, Perl, Scheme, Lisp, Bash, MATLAB, Mathematica, HTML, XML, LATEX, JavaScript, Visual Basic, C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, Android, iOS, Django, Linux, MPI, OpenMP, VTK, ParaView, Systems Administration. Natural Languages: English, native. Danish, Spanish, German intermediate. Arabic, basic. Academic Positions Institute for Computational Sciences, University of Zurich 2010 - Present Graduate Research Zurich, Switzerland Computational research addressing challenges in galaxy formation and evolution in a cosmological context, gravitational physics, and big data processing. Primary Projects: Probing the reionization era with globular clusters, cosmological simulations in f(R) gravity, big data visualization and analysis techniques, the quantum collapse of a dust ball, structure finding in cosmological simulations. Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute, UP Diliman 2013 Adjunct Professor Manila, Philippines Taught computer science, mobile development and entrepreneurship in joint undergraduate and graduate course. ETH Institute for Astronomy January 2010 - April 2010 Graduate Research Zurich, Switzerland Worked to accurately model galaxy surface brightness profiles in the new Wide Field Camera 3 imaging of the GOODS-South and HUDF-South fields. Examined the variation of these profiles as a function of observed wavelength and developed an empirical characterization of the point spread function of the WFC3. MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab January 2006 - June 2007 Undergraduate Research Cambridge, MA Researched machine translation and transliteration technology, developing a statistical method to transliterate Arabic named entities to English. Developed sentence pair similarity metrics for use in information retrieval. Johns Hopkins Center for Language and Speech Processing Summer 2006 Research Scientist Baltimore, MD Researched, developed, and implemented statistical machine translation methods. Work released as component of open source machine translation toolkit, Moses. MIT Media Laboratory September 2003 - May 2004 Undergraduate Research Cambridge, MA Wrote C code and ported existing MATLAB code necessary for communication between MSP430 microcontrollers. Manipulated digital signals via MATLAB for use in artistic exhibitions. Papers and Proceedings Globular Cluster Formation in the Virgo Cluster, Corbett Moran, Christine; Teyssier, Romain; Lake, George, Submitted MNRAS, 2014. Structure Finding in Cosmological Simulations: The State of Affairs, Knebe, Alexander; Pearce, Frazer R.; Lux, Hanni; Ascasibar, Yago; Behroozi, Peter; Casado, Javier; Corbett Moran, Christine; Diemand, Juerg; Dolag, Klaus; Dominguez-Tenreiro, Rosa; and 25 coauthors, Accepted MNRAS, 2013. AstroViz: A Parallel Visualization Tool for Astrophysical Applications, Christine Corbett Moran, University of Zurich, Master’s Thesis, 2009. Name Aware Speech-to-Speech Translation for English/Iraqi, Rohit Prasad, Christine Moran, Fred Choi, Ralf Meermeier, Shirin Saleem, Chia-lin Kao, Dave Stallard, Prem Natarajan, IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology 2008. Recent Improvements in BBN’s English/Iraqi Speech-to-Speech Translation System, Fred Choi, Stavros Tsakalidis, Shirin Saleem, Chia-lin Kao, Ralf Meermeier, Kriste Krstovski, Christine Moran, Krishna Subramanian, Rohit Prasad, Prem Natarajan, IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology 2008. Moses: Open Source Toolkit for Statistical Machine Translation, Philipp Koehn, Hieu Hoang, Alexandra Birch, Chris Callison-Burch, Marcello Federico, Nicola Bertoldi, Brooke Cowan, Wade Shen, Christine Moran, Richard Zens, Chris Dyer, Ondrej Bojar, Alexandra Constantin, Evan Herbst, ACL 2007, demonstration session. Open Source Toolkit for Statistical Machine Translation: Factored Translation Models and Confusion Network Decoding, Philipp Koehn, Nicola Bertoldi, Ondrej Bojar, Chris Callison-Burch, Alexandra Constantin, Brooke Cowan, Chris Dyer, Marcello Federico, Evan Herbst, Hieu Hoang, Christine Moran, Wade Shen, and Richard Zens, Johns Hopkins University 2007, CLSP Summer Workshop Final Report WS-2006. Teaching University of Zurich 2010 - 2014 Teaching Assistant Zurich, Switzerland Led problem solving and exam review sessions for Mathematical Methods for Physicists I&II, Astrophysical Dynamics, Quantum Mechanics I, Continuum Mechanics, Introduction to Scientific Computing, and Advanced Computational Science courses. Prepared and graded homework assignments and assessed student performance. MIT Global Startup Labs Summer 2013 Lead Technical Instructor Manila, Philippines Taught Java programming, Android development and mentored student startups in the MIT Global Startup Labs. MIT MEET: Middle East Education Through Technology Summer 2007, 2013 Lecturer Jerusalem, Israel Taught Java programming and entrepreneurship to Israeli and Palestinian high school students. Massachusetts Institute of Technology September 2005 - December 2005 Teaching Assistant Cambridge, MA Led problem solving and exam review sessions for freshman level Electricity and Magnetism course. Graded homework assignments and assessed student performance. Supervising University of Zurich 2010 Rafael K¨ ung, Bachelor’s Thesis Zurich, Switzerland Supervised student Bachelor’s thesis integrating visualization and analysis capabilities specific to tracking halos in a cosmological simulation over time into AstroViz. University of Zurich 2013 - present Michael Dimmler, Master’s Thesis Zurich, Switzerland Supervising student Master’s thesis consistently simulating the upcoming merger between Andromeda and the Milky Way, producing a beautiful high resolution video of the process. Invited Talks TEDxYouthAdliswil, 2014. University of the Philippines, Diliman Physics Department, 2013. University of the Philippines, Diliman Android Development Lecture Series, 2013. Fourth Cluster-Dialog Kanton Zurich: Big Data, 2013. RAMSES user’s meeting, 2013. Swiss Big Data User Group, 2013. RealtimeConf Europe, 2013. TEDxEHL, 2013. MIT Astrophysics Graduate Student Lunch, 2012. Harvard Astrophysics Department, 2012. ETH/UZH Galaxy Formation Group Meeting, 2012. Astrosim Davos, 2012. Google@HEC, HEC Paris, 2012. Women’s Business Conference - Hochschule Luzern, 2012. MIT Startup Bootcamp, 2012. TEDxSummit, 2012. Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS) User’s Day, 2011. Ignite Zurich, 2011. EuroPython, 2011. Foo Camp, 2010. SecurityBSides Berlin, 2010. M. Institute for Computational Astrophysics Professional Event, 2009. 23rd Chaos Communication Congress, 2006. Johns Hopkins Summer Workshop, 2006. Open WhisperSystems, Winter Break of Code, 2014. Conferences, Delegate, World Policy Conference, 2013. Workshops, Schools Attended Exascale Computing in Astrophysics, 2013. Founders Fund F50, 2013. RAMSES User’s Meeting, 2013. Open WhisperSystems, Spring Break of Code, 2013. Radiative Transfer Treatments for Astrophysical Applications, 2013. New Horizons in Computational Astrophysics, 2012. Sandbox Global Summit, 2012. Subhaloes Going Notts, 2011. Halos Going MAD, 2010. DEFCON, 2010. PH-Neutral, 2010. ASTROSIM Summer School on Computational Astrophysics, 2010. Prospects in Theoretical Physics program, Institute for Advanced Study, 2009. SXSW, 2008. Burning Man, 2007. Chaos Communications Congress, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011. Service and Outreach Ambassador, Hello Tomorrow Challenge, 2013 - Present. Advisor, Tech LadyMafia, 2011 - Present. Blogger, Cosmic Rays, popular astronomy and computation, 2009 - Present. Reviewer, MIT SWE Scholarship, 2012. Reviewer, NCWIT National Scholarship, 2011 - 2012. Ph.D. student representative, Promotions Committee, 2012. Ph.D. Student Representative, Institute for Theoretical Physics, 2011 - Present. NASA Space Apps Challenge Hackathon, 2012 Organizer. TEDxZurich, Speaker and Technology coordination, 2011 - 2012. Honors Gilman International Scholarship Recipient, 2007. MIT Arts Scholar, 2005, 2006. International Society of Optical Engineering Scholarship Recipient, 2003, 2004. Society of Exploration Geophysicists Scholarship Recipient, 2004. Lucent Global Science Scholar, 2003. Columbus Educational Association Scholar, 2003, 2004. National Merit Scholar Semifinalist, 2002. Selected Coursework Engineering Algorithms Theory of Computation Computation Structures Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Electronics Quantum Field Theory General Relativity Software Engineering Computer Programs (SICP) Discrete Mathematics Signals and Systems Autonomous Robotics Lab Cryptography Astrophysical Dynamics Computational Cosmology Computational Mathematics Autonomous Systems Computer Systems Engineering Robocraft AI Competition Quantum Computing Theoretical Cosmology Open WhisperSystems March 2013 - Present Senior Security Software Engineer Global Co-lead software and security engineer of TextSecure iOS, encrypting text messages end-toend. Writing open source code, managing development, discussing, designing and implementing security protocols, and maintaining the iOS Github repository. Tech 4 Good 2012 - Present Co-founder and CTO Global Lead iOS, Android, and backend developer of principal project Circle of 6, an anti-sexual violence mobile application targeting vulnerable communities in the US and India. Managing technical business development and technical partnerships. Encyclopedia 2008 - Present Co-founder and CEO Global Lead iPhone application developer and business manager for Encyclopedia, bringing all of Wikipedia to the iPhone without an internet connection in any of 83 languages. Challenges include large customer base, big data processing, custom binary format and iOS engineering. BBN Technologies September 2007 - September 2008 Associate Scientist Cambridge, MA Developed the text component of a Speech-to-Speech English-to-Malaysian translation device as part of the TRANSTAC project. Researched, developed, and deployed English-to-Arabic Speech-to-Speech translation systems. Fast Search and Transfer Summer 2005 Software Engineer Tromsø, Norway Developed method of translating queries in Fast Search’s native query language to other query languages. Enabled efficient and accurate comparisons of search results from different search engines. Lucent Technologies Summer 2004 Software Engineer Murray Hill, NJ Developed software applications to integrate printed circuit board and metals castings design recommendations into end-product cost estimation. Photonic Integration Research, Inc. July 2000 - May 2001 Operator Columbus, OH Operator for fiber optic measurement system, measuring of optical Arrayed Waveguide Grating (AWG) circuits (insertion loss, crosstalk and other pass-fail criteria). Hobbies Open Source Software Music Composition Skiing Language Acquisition Roller Derby Scuba Diving (PADI AOW) Muay Thai Science Fiction Alternative Process Photography Climbing Distance Running Political Science