Alexander M.

Rush
828 Cowper Ave. Apt A. Office: (650) 704-7343
Palo Alto, CA 94301 Email: sasha.rush@gmail.com
Citizenship: United States

Education
B.A. Computer Science, Harvard University, 2007.
Honors: Magna Cum Laude with Highest Honors,
GPA: 3.79, in major: 3.83

Academic Experience
Harvard University
Teaching Fellow, Bits Harry Lewis, Spring 2005.
Research Fellow, International Genetically Engineered Machines Competition (Biological Com-
puting) Radhika Nagpal, Summer 2005.
Teaching Fellow, Intelligent Machines: Reasoning, Actions, and Plans, David Parkes, Fall 2005.
Teaching Fellow, Intelligent Machines: Perception, Learning, and Uncertainty, Avi Pfeffer, Spring
2006.

Professional Experience
Bridgewater Associates, Software Engineer Intern. Summer 2006.
Designed and implemented large-scale trade scheduling and equity analysis algorithms in C# for
the worlds second largest hedge fund.
Facebook, Software Engineer, Summer 2007-.
Lead Engineer on the Facebook Platform team. Designed systems and languages used to support
50,000 applications.

Research
Conference Papers
Induction of probabilistic synchronous tree-insertion grammars for machine translation, with S.
Shieber and R. Nesson (2006).

Technical Reports
Discriminative training of Synchronous Grammars for Machine Translation (2007).

Invited Talks
Computational Linguistics Seminar University of Pennsylvania, November, 2006.
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Honors & Awards

Fellowships
Summer Research Fellowship, Harvard University, 2005.

Awards
Outstanding Undergraduate Award Finalist, Computing Research Association, 2006.

Harvard ACM Computing Team, Advanced twice to Northeast Regionals, 2005-2006.

Miscellaneous
Extracurricular
General Manager, WHRB Harvard Radio Broadcasting, a commercial radio station broadcasting
to the Boston area.

Computer Skills
Haskell, OCaml, Python, C, C++, PHP, Java, JavaScript, C#, Linux, SQL

Last updated: November 12, 2008