Tracy Chou
Pursuing BSc in Electrical Engineering and MSc in Computer Science at Stanford.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Skills: | C/C++, Engineering, HTML / CSS, Java, Languages, Languages and Platforms, PHP, Software Engineering, Spanish, SQL, Web Development |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Tags: | business development, china, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Entrepreneurship, High Tech, software, taiwan |
| Schools: | Stanford University |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Facebook, Palo Alto, CA |
| Position: | Software Engineering Intern, Communication and Applications Team |
| Time period: | June 2008 - September 2008 |
| Description: | - Implemented prototype for Facebook photo tagging on external sites as a feature for
Facebook Connect; built site support for feature in PHP and front-end in JavaScript. - Extended the developer APIs with additional photos functionality, in use with iPhoto ’09. - Contributed to testing and bug fixing of the profile redesign, launched in July ’08. - Prototyped conversion of chat notifications to be push-based instead of pull-based. |
| Employer: | Google, Mountain View, CA |
| Position: | Associate Technology Manager Intern, Partner Solutions Organization |
| Time period: | July 2007 - September 2007 |
| Description: | - Analyzed the Chinese e-commerce market and proposed strategies to leverage Google
infrastructure in that market; presented to worldwide sales engineering team. - Correlated seller reputation with profitability, supporting a strategy shift for Checkout. - Served as project manager on a technical task tied to a partner deal; coded a prototype for crawling information and worked with the engineering team to process the data. - Revised a patent application on ads targeting systems for user profiles. |
| Employer: | Stanford CS Dept, Stanford, CA |
| Position: | Teaching Assistant, CS107 Programming Paradigms |
| Time period: | April 2007 - June 2007 |
| Description: | - Syllabus: memory management, computer architecture, templates, operator overloading,
concurrent programming, functional programming; languages used: C, C++, Scheme. |
| Employer: | Winbond Electronics, Hsin Chu, Taiwan |
| Position: | Summer Engineering Intern, Device Modeling Team |
| Time period: | June 2006 - August 2006 |
| Description: | - Selected for internship through Stanford’s Asia Technology Initiative program.
- Extracted models for non-discrete circuit elements using industry standard software. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Stanford University |
| Time period: | 2010 |
| Degree: | Computer Science, MSc |
| University: | Stanford University |
| Time period: | 2009 |
| Degree: | Electrical Engineering, BSc |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | Mandarin pop music; neat handwriting; making friends; reading; Dance Dance Revolution. |
| Memberships: | Stanford Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Co-President ’08-’09; Webmaster ’07-’08; Research/Competitions Chair ’06-’07 Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society (TBP) Vice President, California Gamma Chapter ’08-’09; Member since ’08 Stanford University Residential Computing Resident Computer Consultant and CS1C/CS2C Instructor, West Lagunita ’08-’09 Stanford Women in Business (SWIB) “I don’t know” to CEO Conference Director ’07-’08 Formosa Foundation Ambassador Program (FFAP) Youth Ambassador to U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, Class of ’07 Stanford Taiwanese Cultural Society (TCS) Co-Chair and Webmaster ’06-’07; Frosh Intern ’05-’06 |
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Alice Lee
Chinese-American, 21, HumBio major; contributor to Alpha Phi Omega, Tzu Chi, Dance Marathon, Relay for Life; bio/anthro/pharmaceutical research labs; from Columbus, OH; play piano, violin, guitar; love travel, food, social networking, PR, media :)
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Ricky Yean
Taiwanese-American, 21, STS major at Stanford, President of BASES
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Bjorn Lee
Singaporean, 27, alum from National University of Singapore (NUS) and Stanford. Spent past 5 years working in Silicon Valley, Vietnam, China in advertising, venture capital and virtual worlds.