Tony Aburaad


Grad student in computer science / software engineer

About

About



I recently finished my Masters in CS with a specialization in data analytics at the University of Chicago. In addition to class, I worked on implementing new statistical methods in Python at the Center for Spatial Data Science, and migrating a new high performance computing cluster at the Center for Research Informatics. Two summers ago, I worked at the Computation Institute to improve a command line caching tool used by physicists. Last summer, I worked on building out anomaly detection services at Pandora.

My hobbies/interests include cycling, vintage audio, rap/hip hop, and augmented reality.


Projects



Real Time Music Streaming Analytics - A simple demonstration of how gathering and analyzing a stream of data can be easily handled with Hadoop, Pig, HBase, Kafka, and Python. This web app uses a combination of real and synthetic data to track current popular songs and genres by city, and uses lambda architecture to handle batch, serving, and speed layers. link

Java-like Compiler - Compiler written in Python for Java-like language (Jack) for educational purposes. Translates object oriented code to VM code, passes to assembler which translates to 16 bit machine code. link

Interactive Beer Database - Beer recommendation web app written in PHP, HTML, and SQL, hosted on a mySQL database

Raspberry Pi Intercom - Wireless 2G smart touchscreen intercom written in Python, using Kivy Framework, built on Raspberry Pi

Skills & Coursework



Languages - Python (NumPy, scikit-learn, Django), Java, SQL, Haskell, Swift, some knowledge of Scala

Tools - Unix shell, Git, Hadoop, Hive, Kafka, Docker



Graduate Coursework - Algorithms, Computer Systems, OOP (Java), Functional Programming (Haskell), Big Data, Databases, Discrete Mathematics, Foundations of Computational Data Analysis, iOS Development, Machine Learning, Distributed Systems, Distributed and Randomized Algorithms

Undergraduate Coursework - C Programming, Statistics and Probability, Categorical Data Analysis, Computational Economics

Contact


Email - taburaad at uchicago dot edu

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