Contact information:
Work experience:
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2008 Fall - Present
Software engineer for
Google.
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2008 Summer
Social network application developer (PHP, OpenSocial, Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Blogger, etc.) and
Subversion (SVN) administrator for
eServerSpace.
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2003 Spring - 2008 Spring
Research Assistant, Linux System Administrator, web developer, and Java developer for
Dr. Shlomo Argamon
in the
Laboratory of Linguistic Cognition at IIT.
Ran computations on the Teraport cluster.
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2003 Summer
Research Experience for Undergraduates program
at
Rutgers with
Dr. Zeilberger
Project summary at
http://dimax.rutgers.edu/~sstein/
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2002 Summer
Undergraduate research with
Nazli Goharian
Published and presented paper at the Las Vegas conference in April 2003.
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1999,2000 Summer
Computer camp counselor at
Day Camp in the Park
Independent work:
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2005 Spring
Customized "Easy Money" money managing program for
Karen Walker, Attorney at Law.
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2004 Winter
Wrote Questionnaire program for
Peak Health Solutions.
Papers:
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Kenneth Bloom, Sterling Stuart Stein, Shlomo Argamon.
Appraisal Extraction for News Opinion Analysis at NTCIR-6
NTCIR 6, May 2006.
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Sterling Stuart Stein, Shlomo Argamon, Ophir Frieder.
The Effect of OCR Errors on Text Classification
In Poster Proc. SIGIR, August 2006.
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Sterling Stuart Stein, Shlomo Argamon.
A Mathematical Explanation of Burrows's Delta
In Proc. Digital Humanities, July 2006.
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Shlomo Argamon, Marin Šarić, Sterling Stuart Stein.
Style Mining of Electronic Messages for Multiple Authorship Discrimination.
In Proc. ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining,
August 2003.
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Sterling Stuart Stein, Nazli Goharian.
On the Mapping of Index Compression Techniques
on CSR Information Retrieval.
In Proc. International Conference on Information Technology, April 2003.
Education:
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2004 Spring - Present
PhD candidate at IIT
in Computer Science
Masters degree obtained in 2008 Summer
All course work completed for PhD
Advisor: Shlomo Argamon
Member of programming team,
went to world level competition in 2004 and 2005
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2001 Fall - 2003 Fall
BS in Computer Science at IIT
Grade average: 3.872
Member of programming team.
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1997 Fall - 2001 Spring
Washingtonville High School 2001 Valedictorian
Member of Math Team for 4 years, captain for 2 years,
State level contestant every year
Member of computer club
Accomplishments:
- While on programming team, went to world level competition in Prague
in 2004 and Shanghai in 2005.
- 5-year Camras scholarship to IIT
- Air Force Recruiting Service Mathematics and Science Award
- Rensselaer medal
- Passed AHSME to take
American Invitational Mathematics Examination
- Took
USA Mathematical Talent Search
and received 94% on 2001 test
Hobbies:
- Programming (by familiarity)
- Well: C / C++, Assembly (x86, AMD64), Java, LAMP (PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL), BASH, Scheme
- Fair: Perl, Ocaml, Basic (Visual / Quick / C64)
- Played with: Erlang, BrainF, Ruby
- Linux (Gentoo), member of Chicago Linux User's Group
- Math problems
- Tae Kwon Do (3rd degree black belt), some Hapkido
- Video games (platform, shooter, RPG)