530 Beacon St.

Boston, MA 02215

JAY BAXTER

jbaxter@mit.edu (650) 703-6447

EDUCATION
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cumulative GPA: 4.8/5.0, EECS/Math GPA: 4.9/5.0
Candidate for Masters of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Bachelors of Science in Computer Science and Engineering June 2014 June 2013

Courses: Machine Learning Natural Language Processing Statistical Computation and Learning Programming Language Engineering Databases Computer Vision Inference and Information Computer Systems Artificial Intelligence Algorithms Game Theory Software Studio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Diffeo, Machine Learning Engineer Intern
Jun - Aug 2013 Developed hierarchical probabilistic models to perform online cross-document entity disambiguation Experimented with structure priors and different sets of MCMC moves to perform structure learning over trees Implemented SampleRank, a semi-supervised learning technique for learning optimal weights

Palantir Technologies, Software Engineering Intern

May - Aug 2012

Built award-winning hack week project: finding possible sniper locations by analyzing elevation terrain data Sped up viewshed analysis by using parallelism, an external memory algorithm, and sparse data structures Delivered multiple highly-requested map features including tile source metadata and online tile source updates

Google, Software Engineering Intern

Jun - Aug 2011

Launched Google Book Alerts, a new Google Alerts feature that notifies users when new books that match their queries are released. Added efficient hierarchical date search to support the new types of queries needed Built the UI and worked with the Search Quality team to ensure the UI and ranking algorithm worked well

Numenta, Software Engineering Intern

Jun Aug 2010

Worked on Numentas development platform that provides tools to create, train, and test a neocortex-inspired machine learning algorithm that automatically finds patterns in data streams in order to make predictions

MIT Media Lab, Human Dynamics Group, Researcher

Dec 2009 May 2010

Studied dorm residents social networks by analyzing 24/7 sensor and call log data from participants phones Designed and built a Java back end that processed, aggregated, and analyzed databases of uploaded sensor data

Elastic Intelligence, Software Engineering in Test Intern

Performed automated scalability testing of a SQL-based platform for connecting to SaaS data

July Aug 2009

RESEARCH PROJECTS
Adaptive Importance Sampling: Created an efficient sampler for inference in probabilistic programs BayesDB: A database that supports predictive queries with its extension to SQL, BayesQL Wikipedia Topic Modeling: Analyzed Wikipedia articles content by topic using Latent Dirichlet Allocation Food Recognition System: Got over 80% classification accuracy on a difficult fast-food image dataset (PFID) Reddit.com Recommender System: Compared probabilistic matrix factorization (PMF), kNN, and PCA

SKILLS
Programming: Python Java C++ Matlab SQL R Bash JavaScript jQuery D3.js Flask Hadoop x86

ACTIVITIES
As technology chair of Phi Kappa Sigma, managed $10k budget while performing infrastructure/IT upgrades Tennis; biking; rock climbing; squash; puzzles; reading; alto saxophone; hacking