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I work as a PhD graduate student in Computer Science at the Oregon State University. (+)
I did my M.Sc. in [Intelligent Systems Design, HCI, AI] at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. (+)


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Graduate Course work:
  • Science and Research Methodology
    Qualitative & Quantitative research methods; Conducting Interview, Survey, Case Study, Experiment. Usability evaluation & User testing, and scientific paper writing. I conducted two in-depth interviews; one semi-structured interview; a 16-hour observational study; four user testings; one heuristic evaluation; transcribed 12 pages of interview records; and wrote three ACM standard papers.

  • Artificial Intelligence I
    Classical AI theory & methods, Intelligent Agents, Heuristic Search.

  • Artificial Intelligence II (biologically-inspired stochastic optimization methods)
    Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs); Ant Colony Optimization (ACO); Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO); Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs).
    I implemented a Genetic Algorithm(GA), a PSO, and an ACO to solve the NP-hard Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) in MATLAB.

  • Physical Computing | at Interaction Design Collegium
    Designing & building prototypes of computational nature, using Arduino, sensors, actuators and smart material, e. g. wearable fabrics. Projects: iFlute,  Compose:Me,  Power-Sleeve for Tetris.

  • Ubiquitous Computing | at Interaction Design Collegium
    Designing and developing a working prototype of an interactive embedded computer system using novel interface components -- within a budget of 1500 SEK.
    We developed an interactive augmented mirror, called
    aMir.

  • Unix Internals
    The design and implementation of the FreeBSD operating system core.

  • Algorithms for Machine Learning

  • Innovation and Entrepreneurship

  • Theory of Statistics I (ST561)

  • Theory of Statistics II (ST562)
  • Numerical Linear Algebra (MTH551)
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