Joshua Reich

Education

School of Engineering and Applied Science / Graduate School of Arts and Science

2002-present                          Columbia University                              New York, NY

•   MS in Computer Science, May 2004                                                                   GPA: 4.00

•   MPhil in Computer Science, February 2006

•   PhD in Computer Science, expected May 2009                          

Columbia College

1998-2002                                Columbia University                                        New York, NY

•   BA in Mathematics, Magna cum Laude, May 2002                                             GPA: 3.92

Professional Experience

Quantitative Summer Internship Program: Summer Associate

Summer 2007                          Credit Suisse                                      New York, NY

•   Implemented basic financial models including Binomial/Trinomial Grid, PDE, and Monte Carlo

•   Exposed to wide variety of product types: Equity, FX, IRP, Credit

•   Developed Haskell-based DSL for automated software testing

Center for Cyber Defenders, Summer Intern

Summers: 2005-06     Sandia National Laboratories   Albuquerque, NM / Livermore, CA

•   Built malware fingerprinting toolkit

•   Coded recursive descent disassembler for Intel x86 platform

•   Engineered network anomaly detection system

Programming Languages C++, Graduate Student Instructor

Fall-Spring 2005-06                Columbia University                              New York, NY

•   Created and taught a programming course for graduate students and upper level undergraduates

•   Developed syllabus, course materials, lectures, and designed exams

&bull   Gave weekly lectures and assisted students to master material during office hours

National Science Foundation, GK-12 Engineering Fellow

2002-2004                             Columbia University                              New York, NY

•   Developed and taught robotics curricula in New York City public schools 

•   Mentored teams of students and advised teachers

Current Research

MADNET Mobile Robotic Testbed                                                                                           

Created an award-winning test-bed composed of Roomba robotic mobility and sensing platforms, attached to Linksys wireless routers running OpenWRT Linux for embedded devices.  Implemented multi-threaded, distributed, socket-based algorithms, incorporating both delay-tolerant communications and adaptive mobility components.

Technical Skills

Languages: C, C++, Perl, Java, Haskell, Matlab, PHP, SQL

Tools: Excel, VBA, LaTeX, Emacs, POSIX, GDB, BSD Sockets, NetLogo, OpenWRT

Operating Systems: Mac OS X, Unix, Linux, Windows

Honors

ACM MobiHoc/MobiCom Best Student Demo Award Recipient

Two-time Columbia School of Engineering Extraordinary Teaching Assistant Awardee

Member of Phi Beta Kappa: Columbia College, Columbia University

National Merit 2000 Scholarship Recipient