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| Contact | Thomas J. Murray IV Venice, CA   |
| Education | |
| August 2003- Present |
PhD Student, Computer Science (GPA:
4.0) University of Southern California |
| May 2007 | Master of Science, Computer Science (GPA: 4.0) University of Southern California |
| August 1994 | Bachelor of Arts, English
Literature (with Honors) and Mathematics Summa Cum Laude (GPA: 3.92) University of Missouri-Columbia |
| Professional Experience | |
| November 2006- Present |
Software Engineer
Consultant, SentiaTech, Inc., Santa Monica, CA General software development, process improvement, and testing, some experimental evaluation. Have worked on GUI, audio capture, and other components of speech-to-speech translation system. |
| August 2003- Present |
Student and Research
Assistant, Speech and Interpretation Laboratory (SAIL), Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC), and Information Sciences Institute (ISI), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA |
| May 2005- June 2006 |
Software Engineer
Consultant, Snap (PerfectMarket), Pasadena, CA Helped on a variety of projects such as broken-HTML parsing, query suggestion, summary generation. |
| June 2003- June 2006 |
Software Engineer
Consultant, Evolution Robotics, Pasadena, CA Helped on a variety of projects such as documentation and testing, GUI development, and build system, as well as general design and troubleshooting. |
| May 2002- June 2003 |
Lead Software Engineer, Evolution Robotics, Pasadena, CA Continued architectural design role, now leading focused team on projects such platform porting, scripting and end-user programming interfaces, and planning and executing development schedules with senior management. |
| August 2001- May 2002 |
Senior Software Engineer, Evolution Robotics, Pasadena, CA Designed and implemented key architectural components of robotics software platform, primarily concerned with hardware resource management, navigation and obstacle avoidance. |
| August 1999- August 2001 |
Prototype/Developer, idealab! Pasadena, CA Fast prototyping of client and system applications for new company projects, also technology research for potential projects. |
| May 1997- July 1999 |
Technology Developer, The Orange County Register, Santa Ana, CA Designed and implemented online and internal content development applications. |
| July 1995- May 1997 |
Application Developer, Pulitzer Technologies, St. Louis, MO Designed and implemented online and internal system applications. |
| Skills and Experience | |
| Languages | English (native), Spanish (rusted), Russian (rusted), French (mainly reading), Vietnamese (learning) |
| Development | C/C++, Perl, OCaml, Java, Ruby, Python, UNIX Shell (sh), HTML/CSS/Javascript, SQL, Eiffel |
| Tasks | Natural language/text processing, machine learning, parallel processing, GUI, web applications, database design and interface, system programming, hardware control/robotics, image and video processing. |
| Scholarships and Awards | |
| Awarded May 3, 2005 |
US Patent #6,889,118, "Hardware
abstraction for a robot" With Baoquoc Pham and Paolo Pirjanian |
| August
2003- July 2007 |
USC Viterbi School of Engineering Dean's Fellowship (4 years of support) |
| August 1990- May 1994 |
National Merit Finalist and Scholarship Recipient |
| August 1990- August 1994 |
University of Missouri-Columbia Curator's Scholarship (full tuition) |
| August 1990- May 1994 |
State of Missouri "Bright Flight" Scholarship |
| Memberships | |
| 2004-Present | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
| 2003-Present | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
| 2002-Present | Association of Computing Machinists (ACM) |
| 1998-Present | IEEE Computer Society |
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