Tony Wu
Pusuing M.S in Computer Science, B.S. from Stanford University (2009), Software Engineering Intern at Facebook (2008), Program Manager Intern at Microsoft (2009), Teaching Assistant for Stanford Dept. (2007).
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Full-Time Student |
| Skills: | Business, Design, Entrepreneurship, Graphic design, Languages, Leadership, Management, Public Relations, Web design, Writing |
| Groups: | [INACTIVE] BASES Social E-Challenge 2010 |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | Stanford University |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Stanford Dept. of Stanford Dept. of Computer Science |
| Position: | Teaching Assistant |
| Time period: | September 2007 - Present |
| Description: | Hold weekly office hours to help debug student assignments and help explain course concepts
Teach weekly sections that solidify students’ understanding Grade Student Assignments |
| Employer: | Microsoft |
| Position: | Program Manager Intern |
| Time period: | June 2009 - September 2009 |
| Description: | Publisher Quality: Oversaw project to develop algorithms for analyzing quality of publishers in MSFT Ad Platform and business impact of low quality publishers.
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| Position: | Software Engineering Intern |
| Time period: | June 2008 - September 2008 |
| Description: | Search Suggest: Developed and beta launched a Related Queries service for Facebook’s non-people search. |
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| Position: | Software Engineering Intern |
| Time period: | June 2007 - September 2007 |
| Description: | Query Clustering: Developed algorithms clustering queries as a part of “Related Queries” part of Google Search.
Ad Selection Analysis Project for Google AdWords: developed tools for analyzing the effectiveness of Google’s ad Click Through Rate prediction models. |
| Employer: | California State Science Fair and Davidson Institute |
| Position: | Fellow |
| Time period: | December 2003 - September 2005 |
| Description: | Developed a new algorithm of classifying and ranking Web pages by relevance to search query and specific category implementing the round robin machine-learning algorithm, First Place Calif. State Science Fair, Davidson Fellowship. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Stanford University |
| Time period: | 2010 |
| Degree: | M.S. Computer Science |
| University: | Stanford University |
| Time period: | 2009 |
| Degree: | Computer Science, BSc |
INFORMATION
| Clubs: | Current, Section leader and Teaching Assistant for Stanford Dept. of Computer Science
Current, Resident Computer Consultant, Stanford Residential Computing Relay for Life, Publicity Chair Lobbied Education Reform in U.S. House and Senate Fundraised for the Irvine Public School Foundation Company” of the Irvine Public School Foundation, raising $120,000 for the public schools in Irvine. |
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| Awards: | 2006 Siemens AP Award Winner (one male in California)
http://www.siemens-foundation.org/pool/advanced_placement... • 2006 AXA Achievement Community Scholarship http://www.axaonline.com/axa/about-us/2006%20Comm%20Winne... • 2006 All-USA High School Academic Teams (USA Today) http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2006-05-17-hs-alls... • 2005 & 2006 United States Physics Team Semifinalist http://www.aapt.org/olympiad2006/semifinals.cfm • 2005 Davidson Fellow in Technology – with $10,000 scholarship http://presskit.ditd.org/2005_Davidson_Fellows_Press_Kit/... • 2004 First Place, California State Science Fair http://www.usc.edu/CSSF/History/2004/Awards/S12.html |
Tony's Startups (1)
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BlindSight
BlindSight is suite of iPhone Apps to help blind people navigate around, and discover the world around them. Apps would consist of: -Navigation app speaks out where the user is -Computer Vision app, user takes picture, app detects objects in frame
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Ashwin Purohit
Pursuing BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Software Engineering Intern at Cisco WebEx (2008), Co-founder at Lexeem.com (2009), Operations Management Engineering Intern at Yahoo! (2009).