Michelle Koo
University of California, Berkeley
Computer Science, Class of 2017
About Me
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." ~Benjamin Franklin
Hello world! I am a fourth year computer science major at the University of California, Berkeley. I have lived in the bay area my entire life and I am from San Ramon, CA. This past summer I was a software engineering intern at Workday and the previous summer I was an undergraduate research intern at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. On campus I am an avid member of UC Berkeley's Society of Women Engineers Corporate Committee and I am the Chief Technology Officer for the Undergraduate Journal of Psychology at Berkeley. My hobbies include baking, reading, and playing the piano. I welcome all internship and research opportunities. I hope you enjoy my site!
Projects
Personal projects, class projects from UC Berkeley, and projects from high school.
Experience and Activities
During the summer of 2016, I have been working as a software engineering intern at Workday in Pleasanton, CA. I was on the Performance Team in the Tools and Organizations divison, where my project involved enhancing the existing Performance Portal. This was done by creating an ANSI-SQL interpreter to allow users to run Apache Spark queries that were beyond the capabilites of the Performance Portal using, while using the optimization qualities the backend of the Performance Portal provides. In addition, progress bars were implemented to reflect job status updates with regards to the running Spark job. Technologies used included Scala, Apache Spark, Node.js, and Angular 2.
During the summer of 2015, I have been working as a research intern under the supervision of Wucherl Yoo and Alex Sim in the Computational Research Division as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship program. The project I have been working on is motivated by the observations that I/O performance analyses can be conducted from monitored performance measurement data from scientific clusters. I created an I/O performance analysis framework that helped uncover bottlenecks in the Palomar Transient Factory application by analyzing measurment data recorded on NERSC Edison using Python, Spark, iPython notebook, and Matplotlib. I also created a Darshan parser/tool in Python using Apache Spark that analyzed the HPC computing tools’ I/O logs and calculated performance measurements. From this work, I developed research deliverables, research papers, and scientific posters, that were submitted to SULI and ACM SC '15.
I am the Chief Technology Officer of the Undergraduate Journal of Psychology at Berkeley. The Undergraduate Journal of Psychology at Berkeley is an annual publication that allows students who have done research and scientific studies in the field of psychology to publish their findings. As the Chief Technology Officer, I maintain and update the Journal's website. The website is hosted by Wordpress and can be found at http://ujpb.org. I am also currently helping to set up a blog to provide a space to allow for deeper discussions about scientific research in psychology.
I am a part of the UC Berkeley Society of Women Engineers Corporate Committee. As part of the Corporate Committee I help organize and plan the Shadow and Engineer Event. I helped recruit and email companies, create the online forms, and reach out to students to advertise the event. For all of my hardwork, I won the outstanding member award in December 2014. As part of the Society of Women Engineers, I attend all meetings, most infosessions, and special events including Evening with Industry.
I am a member of the National Society of Leadership and Successhonor society at UC Berkeley. I am currently working to be officially inducted and attend events such as orientation, leadership training day, speaker broadcasts, and success networking teams. The National Society of Leadership and Success aids in planning out future goals, while giving me the opportunity to attend incredible opportunitites.
I lab assisted for UC Berkeley's class The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, which is also known as CS61A, in the summer of 2014 under the lecturers Andrew Huang and Rohin Shah. I attended lab twice a week and helped students with any questions they had about lab, homework, or the class material in general. I was also part of the lab committee and I attended meetings twice a week to complete, proofread, and draft questions for labs and test reviews.
I was one of 25 students chosen to be a part of the second cohort of UC Berkeley Computer Science Scholars. CS Scholars helps promote diversity among the CS field and all the scholars were enrolled in a supplemental computer science seminar. In seminar we often learned about various ideas behind computer science, worked on projects, and had extra review sessions together. Through CS Scholars I was able to meet a dedicated group of individuals with the same passion I have for computer science.
I worked at Yang Fan Academy in Pleasanton, CA during the summmer of 2013. I taught children grades four to eight the important principles of web design and how to make their own websites. I was also in charge of watching the kindergarteners during lunch time and teaching various grades class material. I also scanned tests and updated the student database.
I joined the Technovation Challenge my senior year of high school with three other teammates. We created an Android App with MIT App Inventor called Neighborhoot. We created the entire prototype of the app, the business plan, and the pitch to sell the idea to judges. Details about Neighborhoot can be viewed under Projects/High School Projects. We were one of the top ten world finalists chosen to compete at the world pitch with girls from all around the world and we were featured on ABC News. At World Pitch held at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, we were awarded with the most comprehensive business plan.
I volunteered with the Friends of the Dublin Library in Dublin, CA all throughout high school and I was the first winner of their memorial plaque award. For the Friends of the Dublin Library, I created the graphic designs on their fliers and bookmarks that were used to promote book sales. I priced books and I entered their antique books onto their database, allowing the antiques to be priced with buyers. I also volunteered at all of their booksales.
Contact
Email me at michellekoo@berkeley.edu or call me at (925) 336-4519 to get in touch!
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