University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI

B.S., Computer Engineering (expected Spring, 2019)

Hawaii Undergraduate Initiative Student Coordinator, Office of Multicultural Student Services

manoa.hawaii.edu/omsshui/

Assisting the Hawaii Undergraduate Initiative (HUI) Program Coordinator through planning and administering workshops for students.

• Maintain, update, and oversee website.
• Maintained and built a community and support system of 400+ HUI students, alumni, and friends by providing on-campus resources to assist first-generation college students.
• Managed the HUI Summer Program and HUI Registered Independent Organization’s meetings, fundraisers, socials, and other events.

Akamai Workforce Initiative Computer Engineering Intern, Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory

akamaihawaii.org/akira-vernon/

Optimization of the Ray Tracing Algorithm for RPG (TMT AO Facility)

• Developed a ray tracing program using C that reduces the effects of atmospheric distortion by using bilinear interpolation to reconstruct distorted wavefronts for the Reconstruction Parameter Generator used by the Adaptive Optics team.
• Maximized performance and efficiency by using various directives from OpenMP API.
• Conducted benchmarks of the ray tracing program with the Intel Xeon Phi 7210 CPU and other CPUs.

AVID Tutor, Hawaii Department of Education – Kaimuki High School and Washington Middle School

www.khsavid.com/

Assisted students in STEM courses.

• Assisted students in STEM courses, development of personal pride, and the successful completion of college eligibility requirements.
• Served as a role model and mentor to at-risk students by being an example of personal excellence and high expectations.

Software Developer, Micromouse

www-ee.eng.hawaii.edu/~tep/Projects/F17/minicomp2.html

Developer for firmware & algorithms of an autonomous robot

• Developed a Micro-Mouse simulator in C.
• Developing a modified maze-solving algorithm in C based on Flood fill algorithm.

Software Developer, Smart Campus Energy-Lab

scel-hawaii.org/

Prototyping weather sensor modules

• Designed and developed a low-cost, accurate, and reliable environmental sensor module.
• Tested computer to computer and computer to Arduino with Xbee shield communication.
• Designed weather box housing using Google SketchUp.

Student Speaker, 2015 Education Leadership Institute

• Spoke in front of 500-600 educators about the importance of a successful support system for students.

Student Speaker, 2015 AVID Hawaii Summer Institute

www.avid.org/

• Spoke in front of 500-600 educators about the importance of a successful support system for students.