Andrew Wood
I am a Computer Science PhD student at the University of Notre Dame, advised by Collin McMillan. I am interested in Machine Intelligence, particularly in Brain-Machine Interfacing, although I currently work on natural language processing for Virtual Assistant technology.
Contact Info
256 Fitzpatrick Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46656
awood7@nd.edu
Education
University of Notre Dame
- Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering (expected May 2020)
Case Western Reserve University
- Bachelors of Science and Engineering in Computer Science, May 2017
Publications
- Wood, A., Rodeghero, P., Armaly A., McMillan C., “Detecting Speech Act Types in Developer Question/Answer Conversations During Bug Repair”, in Proc. of the 26th ACM Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE’18), Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA, Nov. 4-9, 2018.
Projects
- Augmenting Conversational Modeling with Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs)
- Unsupervised Vocabulary Clustering From Data
Work Experience
University of Notre Dame Software Engineering Lab, Research Assistant June 2017 - Present
- Natural language processing for machine comprehension of human conversations
- Corpus collection via human Wizard-of-Oz studies, IRB approved
University of Notre Dame Department of Computer Science, Teaching Assistant June 2017 - May 2018
- Undergraduate Operating Systems & Programming Paradigms
- Grading, test proctoring, undergraduate TA management
Case Western Reserve University Biorobotics Lab, Undergraduate Researcher June 2016 - May 2017
- Designed and implemented data storage & Local parallel computation infrastructure
- Developed CNN localization and SLAM ROS technology
Case Western Reserve University Robotics Club, Head of Software Aug. 2015 - May 2017
- Roadmap planning of software architecture
- Developed and deployed custom robotic operating system
- Installed and managed build technologies such as Jenkins
Rockwell Automation, Software Developer Co-op May 2015 - Dec. 2015
- Maintained Continuous Integration Build Server
- Created a platform-independent dependency installation language
Case Western Reserve University Department of Mathematics, Student Instructor Aug. 2013 - May 2017
- Calculus 1 & 2 for Science and Engineers
- Office hours, grading, taught recitations, proctored tests & quizzes
- Onboarding
- Fundraising for an end-of-the-year event that helps students prepare for finals
Case Western Reserve University Automated Snowplow Team, Software Developer June 2013 - May 2016
- localization and obstacle avoidance
- Software and hardware maintenance