University Experience

As of December 2024, I have completed my B.S. in Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison! Here are the most interesting and relevant classes I have taken:

Programming I, II, and III (CS 200/300/400)

Programming fundamentals; Object-oriented languages (Java), abstract data types and structures, group projects

Machine Organization & Programming (CS 354)

Fundamental structures of computer systems, C programming, low-level interrelationships, assembly language

Algorithms (CS 577)

Paradigms for efficient algorithms; Greedy, Divide-and-Conquer, Dynamic Programming, Reductions.

Artificial Intellegence (CS 540)

Introduction to machine learning and neural networks, programming in Python

Operating Systems (CS 537)

Input-output hardware, interrupt handling, scheduling resource allocation, modular software systems, and more

Database Management Systems (CS 564)

SQL and Relational, hierarchecal, and network database systems

Building User Interfaces (CS 571)

Software development of UIs; event-driven interfaces, direct-manipulation interfaces, and dialogue-based interaction

Introduction to Information Security (CS 642)

Cryptography, Access Control, OS Security, Network Security, Machine Learning Security, Web Security, and more

Internship Experience - SSI

From June 2023-April 2024, I was a remote intern for the Space Science Institute in Boulder, CO.

Mars in Virtual Reality

In my internship, I explored the modern landscape of VR development for browser. Using tools such as Spatial, Unity, Blender, and AFrame, I learned to make VR scenes out of scans of real Martian land and materials.

Check out some of my work here: My Spatial profile

This can also be found in the Spatial app on the Oculus Quest. Search my profile @ben_56611!

Internship Experience - BC

From November of 2024 until now, I have been an intern for Brown and Caldwell in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Watching Water Work

In my internship, I am the main contributor to the development of the company's DTS (Distributed Temperature Sensing) application. The application's purpose is to import, manipulate and plot data to help BC's engineers figure out what is happening in sewers and nearby environments. The tool is written almost entirely in Python, and accepts a variety of data, from DTS to flow and rainfall data. The main challenge is maximizing the UI's user-friendliness, so that engineers who may have no computer science experience have no trouble using it!