Kelly Smith

Severna Park, MD

Employment Type

Apprenticeship


Job Interests

Lab & STEM


Additional Info

Education Level: Some College

Work Experience: 1 to 2 Yrs

Availability: Morning, Afternoon

Attributes: Hardworking, Punctual, Quick learner, Good Communication, Team player, Honest, Creative, Integrity, Professional, Trustworthy, Confident, Reliable, Positive Spirit, Self-motivated, Proactive, Detail-oriented, Problem Solving, Multi-Tasking

Who Am I

I am a thrid-year Computer Science major with a minor in Linguistics at Georgia Tech. My Threads/focus areas are in Intelligence and People. I am a student in the International Plan (IP) program pursuing a Spanish language distinction. I am particularly interested in NLP, machine learning, and computational linguistics/sociolinguistics. I am open to school year and summer internship opportunities.


Certifications:

Programming Languages: Java, Python, PHP, MATLAB, HTML, CSS, SQL, Beautiful Soup, AudoCAD
Version Control: Git
Operating Systems: Linux, MacOS
Natural Languages: English (Native), Spanish (Professional Working Proficiency)

Employment History:

Work Experience
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
Intern, Software Engineering
Laurel, MD
May 2023 - present
● Utilizing MATLAB to support threat detection efforts on the Air and missile Defense team.
Natural Language Processing (NLP) X Lab, Georgia Tech
Research Assistant
Atlanta, GA
August 2022 – January 2023
● Conducting research on error identification for phrase-level text simplification models.
● Supporting the development of algorithms for learning semantics from large data for natural language understanding, and natural language generation in particular with stylistic variations.
Barcelona Summer Program – Faculty-Led Study Abroad
Student
Barcelona, Spain
Summer 2022
● Participated in 11-week long international experience as a full-time student, taking Georgia Tech courses.
● Pursued immersion to strengthen foreign language and intercultural communication skills.
Social and Language Technologies (SALT) Lab, Georgia Tech
Research Assistant
Atlanta, GA
April-May 2022
● Utilized Beautiful Soup to scrape restaurant reviews from different cities on Google Maps and perform sentiment analysis and some tokenization with spaCy to determine trends in how sentiment and ratings are correlated among different linguistic groups which speak different dialects of English.
Science and Engineering Apprenticeship Program (SEAP), U.S. Naval Academy
Intern
Annapolis, MD
June 2021 - July 2021
● Researched autonomous microrobotics control algorithms under electrical engineering professors ElBidweihy and Feemster.
● Developed Python GUIs and converted control algorithms from MATLAB to Python.
● Assembled, installed, and tested PLA and SLA 3D printers, composed guides for later usage.
● Utilized CAD to design and 3D print pieces for scintillator spectrography experiment, set up experiment.
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab ASPIRE Internship
Intern, IT Customer Experience group
Remote Internship
October 2020 - May 2021
● Resolved a variety of employee concerns as internal customer tech support.
● Modernized and restructured internal networking website utilizing PHP, CSS, and HTML.
Science and Engineering Apprenticeship Program (SEAP), U.S. Naval Academy
Intern
Annapolis, MD
June 2020 - August 2020
● Analyzed image data from magneto-optics experiments using MATLAB

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