Amittai F. Aviram

• Address: 265 College Street, Apt. 7Q, New Haven, CT 06510.
• Phone: 646 483 2639.
• E-mail: amittai dot aviram at yale dot edu .
• Web: www.amittai.com.
• Citizenship: USA.

Education

• Yale University: MS, Computer Science, requirements completed January 2008. (Yale has no GPA.)
• Columbia University: BS, Computer Science, May 2006. (See Honors below.) GPA: 3.86
• University of South Carolina: Coursework in mathematics and computer science, June 2003 – August 2004. GPA: 4.0.
• Yale University: Ph.D., English Language and Literature, December, 1984. (Yale has no GPA.)
• Columbia University: B.A., English and Comparative Literature, Magna cum Laude, May, 1978. GPA: 3.86

Honors

• Russell C. Mills Award in Computer Science, Columbia University, 2006.
• Columbia University School of General Studies Honor Society, inducted 2006.
• Fulbright Senior Scholarship, Bamberg, Germany, 2000-2001.
• Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Humanities Center, Cornell University, 1986-87.
• Prize Teaching Fellowship, Yale University, 1983-84.

Software Development Experience

• Ellington Management Group, LLC. Old Greenwich, CT. May 2007 – August 2007 (summer internship).
  • Project: Web services infrastructure in C#.
    • Parsing and compilation of Web services description files (text, written in a proprietary description language) into C# types.
    • Runtime serialization, deserialization, and synchronous and asynchronous message handling,
• Microsoft Research. Redmond, WA, May 2006 – August 2006 (summer internship).
  • Project on inferring a context-free grammar from its implementation in a compiler, using Microsoft's new Phoenix compiler framework.
• Hunter Stone, Inc. Columbia, SC, June-July 2002.
  • Specifications for tool to extend Visual Studio .NET IDE.
• Two Toads, Inc. Columbia, SC, August 2002-June 2003.
  • PHP/MySQL-based online sales and tech support tracking tools.
  • Instant text message filtering system (DLL in Visual C++).
• IT for People. Bamberg, Germany, October 2000-June 2001.
  • Specifications for database-driven online website editing tool.
  • Implementation in JavaScript and ASP with Active-X control.

Academic and Other Projects

• Yale University. New Haven, CT, September 2006 – Present.
  • Research project (current): virtual distributed system on a single multicore machine.
  • Summer project: revision of PubNet Web application code base and addition of features (Perl).
  • Course project: retrieval of background information for scientific papers in XML (Python).
  • Course project: semantic clustering of Web search results (Python).
  • Course project: automatic species counterpoint using Haskore (Haskell).
• Columbia University. New York, NY, January 2005 – May 2006.
  • Research project on computational representation of Arabic morphology. Contributions to project specifications and implementation in Perl.
  • Programming Languages and Translators course project: Translator from Quantum Computing Assembly Language (QASM) to Quantum Computing Operations Language (QPOL). Implemented in C. Now available to researchers.
• OPERA at USC (volunteer). University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, May 2001-July 2002.
  • Director's Helper: online applicant and finance tracking tool with database (Perl).
  • Online auditions scheduling tool (PHP/MySQL).
  • Webmastering (all-new website).
• Independent projects
  • Quizmaker: online multiple-choice testing and grading software (C, CGI, MySQL). Developed and used in teaching, University of South Carolina, 2001-2002.
  • JavaScript German Flash Cards: representation of German verb inflectional system in rules and algorithms. Developed 2001.

Computer Skills

• Programming Languages: C, C++, C#, Java, Perl, Python, PHP, JavaScript, ML, Haskell, SQL, LaTeX, R.
• Technologies: ASP, MySQL, Windows XP, Linux, MS Visual Studio, Maple, R.

Human Languages

Spanish, French, Italian, German, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Old English.

Positions Held

• Associate Professor, English and Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina, 1992-2004.
  • Comparative Literature Program Core Faculty.
  • Linguistics Program Consulting Faculty.
  • Creative Writing Program.
• Assistant Professor, 1984-1992. On leave, 1986-1988; fall 1994.
• Medical Research Writer (on leave from USC), Pfizer, Inc., New York, New York, 1987-1988.
• Visiting Assistant Professor and Mellon Fellow (on leave from USC), Cornell University, 1986-1987.
• Instructor and Prize Teaching Fellow, Yale University, 1983-1984; Teaching Fellow, 1981-83.

Other Activities

Poetry, viola (chamber music), music composition, ballet and modern dance, fitness, swimming, long-distance running.

References

Please contact amittai dot aviram at yale dot edu for current references.