CV - Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

John H. Brock
[email protected]
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jhbrock/
https://github.com/johnhbrock
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Applied machine learning; ubiquitous computing; data science for social good.
EDUCATION
University of California, Irvine
Current third-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science
Advisors: Donald J. Patterson & Padhraic Smyth
09/2012 -
Boston University
B.A. in Computer Science
GPA: 3.63, magna cum laude
09/2002 - 05/2006
EXPERIENCE
Fellow
06/2013 - 08/2013
The Eric & Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellowship Chicago, IL
• Built a tool using data mining, NLP, and network analysis techniques to help nonprofits (a) find
similar nonprofits for partnerships, and (b) find companies that could be potential donors.
• Wrote pipeline in Python to collect, preprocess, and analyze text data from Twitter, news websites,
GuideStar, and Charity Navigator.
• Presented work at KDD 2013.
Director of Software Development
03/2012 - 08/2012
Software Engineer
11/2010 - 03/2012
Adeptive Software
Boulder, CO
• Designed, architected, and wrote software for the real-estate title industry.
• Managed the software development team.
• Improved hiring practices and was responsible for recruiting; included revamping the interview
process and creating an internship program.
• Interacted with customers on a daily basis to troubleshoot technical issues.
Volunteer Teacher
08/2009 - 07/2010
Guyana Ministry of Education
Guyana
• Via the WorldTeach program, I taught physics and integrated science at a secondary school in rural
Guyana.
• Under my guidance, the school's science fair team won the 2010 Guyana national championship.
Software Developer
08/2006 - 05/2009
Eze Castle Software
Boston, MA
• Wrote and designed software for a leading global order management system provider, primarily
serving the hedge fund industry. I was a member of the Compliance development team.
• Wrote requirements, task lists, schedules, and test plans for enhancements.
Software Developer
02/2007 - 12/2008
Trafelet Delta Funds
New York, NY
• As part of the operations development team at a hedge fund with $5 billion under management, I
designed and wrote software for traders, analysts, the CFO, and back-office employees.
• Wrote software for the storage and analysis of heterogeneous data from various banks, brokerage
firms, and trading desks.
• Reduced running time of software for modeling derivative securities by orders of magnitude.
• Designed and wrote software to automate the collection and transmission of transaction data to the
British Financial Services Authority (FSA).
Assistant System Administrator
05/2005 - 06/2006
Boston University Biomedical Engineering Computational Simulation Facility Boston, MA
• Evaluated potential software and hardware for construction of Whitaker Foundation-funded
Computational Simulation Facility, and helped to bring facility online.
• Assisted researchers, instructors, and staff with hardware and software problems.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Languages (expert): C#, T-SQL
Languages (proficient): Java, Python, MATLAB, JavaScript
Tools/Libraries/APIs: Eclipse, Visual Studio, Git, SVN, TFS, Android, WCF, WPF, CruiseControl, IIS,
NUnit, JUnit, TestComplete, MantisBT, MediaWiki, jQuery, Google App Engine,
Weka, RESTful web services.
PRESENTATIONS
Network Analysis for Nonprofits
Poster Session @ KDD 2013
08/12/2013
Social Good: Network Analysis for Nonprofits
Talk @ KDD 2013
08/12/2013
GivingGraph: Mining the web for fun and nonprofits
Talk @ Chicago Python meetup
08/01/2013
GivingGraph: Mining the web for fun and nonprofits
Talk @ WBEZ to station staff
07/25/2013
GivingGraph: Mining the web for fun and nonprofits
Talk @ Data Science Chicago meetup
07/24/2013
HONORS AND AWARDS
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Dean’s Fellowship – School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine
Butterworth Recruitment Award – School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of
California, Irvine
Graduated Magna Cum Laude – College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University
College Honors – College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University
Dean’s List – College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University
University Scholarship – Boston University
James P. O’Neil Scholarship – Bowne & Co., Inc.
TEACHING
Teaching Assistant, ICS 60: Computer Games and Society1
Fall 2014
Teaching Assistant, ICS 139W: Critical Writing1
Summer 2014
Teaching Assistant, CS 143A: Principles of Operating Systems1
Spring 2014
Teaching Assistant, ICS 139W: Critical
Writing1
Winter 2014
Teaching Assistant, ICS 139W: Critical Writing1
Teaching Assistant, INF 43: Introduction to Software
Fall 2013
Engineering1
Spring 2013
Teaching Assistant, ICS 31: Introduction to Programming1
Winter 2013
Teaching Assistant, INF 133: User Interaction Software1
Fall 2012
Volunteer Teacher, various science classes for
1University
of California, Irvine
2Anna
7th-11th
grades2
08/2009 - 07/2010
Regina Multilateral School, Anna Regina, Guyana

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