About Me

I am currently in the final year of my Computer Sciene degree and I am super excited to be joining the work force after graduation. My senior design project is a "Rate my Dorm" website where future and current college students can view the dorms available to them, how other students rated them, and get matched with an ideal living area based on their preferences. Within CS, my interests include both general software/product development as well as some machine learning. The summer after my sophomore year I was part of a research program at Johns Hopkins University where I studied some natural language processing (NLP) and fine-tuning ML algorithms. That was what first got me interested in NLP, and this semester I am finally able to take a course on it to get a better understanding of the basics. This past summer, I had a virtual internship at Amazon where I worked on building an analytics service for payment disbursement data. Aside from computer science, I have minors in both Psychology and the French language which I would love to be able to incorporate into my career somehow. Finally, in my free time, I like to bike, go to art museums, and explore the city!

Python 75%

Java 90%

C 75%

Git 99%

SQL/MySQL 60%

bash 70%

  • Summer 2020     

    Amazon

    SDE Intern
    Remote (Seattle)

  • Oct. 2018 to present   

    George Washington University: SEAS

    Undergraduate TA
    Washington, D.C.

  • Nov. 2018 to Dec. 2019

     

    SEAS Computing Facility

    Lab Technician
    Washington, D.C.

  • Summer 2019     

    Johns Hopkins University: HLTCOE

    SCALE Researcher
    Baltimore, MD

  • Summer 2018     

    University of North Texas: REU

    Student Researcher
    Denton, TX

  • Aug. 2016 to Aug. 2017

    Mathnasium

    Instructor
    Richmond, VA

  • August 2017 to present

    George Washington University

    School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS)
    B.S. in Computer Science
    Washington, D.C.

  • 2013 to 2017     

    Monacan High School

    Student
    Chesterfield, VA

Recent Projects

For more projects, details, and source code, visit my GitHub at https://github.com/julia320

SCALE Program at Johns Hopkins

In Summer 2019, I was part of a research program at JHU where the focus was on natural language processing, specifically named entity recognition. I worked mostly on modifying Google's pre-existing BERT model and fine-tuning this and other models towards our tasks.

University Application, Registration, and Advising System

After building a database and corresponding website for an application and admission system, I i​ntegrated that system with two other groups who made course registration and advising systems, respectively.

Arduino Heart Rate Monitor

In this project I built a circuit connecting an Arduino to a heartbeat monitor, an LCD screen, a clock, and an environment sensor. Then I implemented different types of communication to create a command-line interface allowing the user to find out different information and statistics from the sensors.

Secure Machine Learning

I contributed to a research project in which the goal was to create a machine learning service that could make predictions on encrypted data using homomorphic encryption.

Maze-Solving Robot

In my first semester with a team of 3 other people, I built and programmed a robot to solve a maze and then go back the correct way. This was implemented using the LeJos library in Java and Lego Mindstorms hardware

File-Based Music Player

A program that allows users to play music in either a pre-selected or random order. It also sends and receives data (what users are listening to) to other computers running the program.