Todd Sullivan

Objective

To join or start a research group or technical company in the fields of pure or applied artificial intelligence.

Education

Stanford University

University of Missouri-Columbia 2004-2007 4.0/4.0 GPA

Honors and Awards

Nationally Competitive

• National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellow 2007 - 2010

• Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship Award of Excellence 2007

University of Missouri-Columbia

• Mizzou '39 2007

  One of the top 39 seniors at MU as chosen by the Mizzou Alumni Association based on academic achievement, leadership, and service.

• E. W. Mares and Dr. Kenneth R. Mares Scholarship and Academic Award 2006

  Undergraduate award recognizing research excellence in the sciences, social sciences, and the humanities.

• Outstanding Student Award - Computer Science 2006, 2007

  One of two awarded juniors (2006) and only awarded senior (2007) as voted by the Computer Science Faculty.

• Curtis L. Benton and Barbara Kortright Benton Scholarship - Finalist 2006

  Award for students who have demonstrated, through actual applications, the ability to create practical solutions to real problems.

Experience

Natural Language Processing Research for Stanford's Machine Learning Course

Autumn 2007

Technologies: NLP, Support Vector Machines (SVMs), Naive Bayes, Logistic Regression, Parallelization, Java

Collaborated in a group of three to design, develop, and evaluate a Java software package (GARI) for automatic relationship induction using learned syntactic patterns.

• Generalized Rion Snow's technique for automatic hypernym discovery to work with any word relationship in a plug-and-play manner.

YabbleBabble

November 2004 - August 2007 (Sold August 9, 2007)

http://www.yabblebabble.com (Archive of August 2007 site)

Technologies: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS, XHTML

YabbleBabble was an e-commerce company that allowed crafters and artists to sell their products online.

• Founder. Conceived, designed, and developed the entire e-commerce system.
• Managed the group of 150+ crafters and artists that sold 1,500+ products through the service.
• Managed the day-to-day operations of providing customer support, marketing, and ensuring the prompt shipment of all orders.

Capstone Research Project under Prof. Chi-Ren Shyu

February 2007 - May 2007

Technologies: GPGPU, BrookGPU, Cg, C++, Java

Led a four-person team in converting a portion of IPSA, a Java-based protein structure comparison algorithm, for GPU processing that included profiling IPSA and developing prototypes for the GPU-based IPSA section.

• Designed, developed, and evaluated the profiler, Java-C++ interaction, and GPU-based section.
• GPU-based IPSA section was 9.828 times faster than its Java-based counterpart.

Honors Undergraduate Research under Prof. Yi Shang

June 2006 - May 2007

Technologies: TinyOS, OPEN-R, Tekkotsu, Java, C++, nesC, MySQL

• Independently integrated a wireless sensor network with a network of Sony AIBOs.
• Created a server that facilitates message transfers and sensor queries.
• Developed a database logging utility for archival data analysis and storage of state histories.
• Built demonstration programs that run on the Sony AIBOs.

University of Missouri-Columbia Engineering Entrepreneurs

June 2006 - May 2007

http://www.daysignmedia.com/Work/MUEngineeringEntrepreneurs/ (Archive of May 2007 site)

Technologies: PHP, MySQL, CSS, XHTML

• Founder and President.
• Provided overall direction, facilitated all activities, and delegated responsibilities to members.
• Obtained campus-recognized student organization status and grew membership to 125+ students.
• Developed the organization's constitution, bylaws, and website.

FIRST Lego League Head Team Coach

August 2006 - January 2007

• Taught children to construct and program robots using LEGO Mindstorms NXT technology.
• Guided children in the research and presentation process for the challenge.

DaySign

2003 - Present

http://www.daysignmedia.com

Technologies: Flash (Actionscript), PHP, MySQL, CSS, XHTML

DaySign was originally a freelance multimedia outfit. Currently, it displays academic history, research projects, side projects, and a multimedia portfolio. Founded DaySign.

Christina Helton's Model Portfolio

May 2004 - August 2005

http://www.daysignmedia.com/Work/ChristinaHeltonMP/ (Archive of August 2005 website)

Technologies: Flash (Actionscript), PHP, MySQL

• Designed and developed business and fan-based websites for Christina Helton.
• Responsible for digitally enhancing pictures and creating wallpapers for the fan-based website.

Lu Lu Josephine Clothing Company - Kansas City, Missouri

April 2004 - August 2004

http://www.porkch0ps.net/LuLu/ (Replica of August 2004 website)

Technologies: Flash (Actionscript), PHP, MySQL

• Responsible for independent design and creation of a unique Flash-based e-commerce system.

Kharis Clothing - Atlanta, Georgia

September 2004

http://www.daysignmedia.com/Work/Kharis/ (Archive of September 2004 concept design)

Technologies: Flash (Actionscript)

• Conceived and developed a concept design for the Kharis Clothing e-commerce website.

Park Hill High School

August 2002 - May 2004

Technologies: Flash (Actionscript), PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS, XHTML

• Lead developer in a team of six people that created and maintained the high school website.
• Independently designed and managed the overall website structure, Future Business Leaders of America site, cheerleading site, girls' basketball site, and the 2004 state champions football site.

Cycle Music

September 2003 - 2004

http://cycle.daysignmedia.com/

Technologies: Sony Sound Forge, Sony Acid, Flash (Actionscript), PHP, MySQL, CSS, XHTML

• Composed and sold two electronic music CDs under the artist name Cycle Music.
• Developed the website, the content on the CDs, and the extra content on the CD cases.

Halo Grid League

April 2003 - November 2003

http://www.daysignmedia.com/Work/HGL/ (Archive of May 2003 website)

Technologies: Flash (Actionscript), PHP, MySQL

The Halo Grid League was a high school club for gamers.

• Founded the league, created the website, and managed all of the gaming sessions.
• Rallied more than forty people to participate in each event.

PorkCh0ps.net

February 2003 - November 2003

http://www.porkch0ps.net/Base/baseindex.html

Technologies: Flash (Actionscript), PHP, MySQL

The PorkCh0ps.net website was a community for Park Hill High School students.

• Developed the website and its games, instant messenger, and other Flash applications.

Welsch Enterprises - The Tassel Is Worth The Hassel

September 2002 - February 2003

Technologies: PHP, MySQL, CSS, XHTML

• Developed the website and infrastructure that allowed the St. Joseph School District in St. Joseph, Missouri to sell personalized products for each school in the district.

People to People Student Ambassador Delegation of Kansas City, Missouri

July 2002

http://www.porkch0ps.net/p2p/indexp2p.html

Technologies: Flash (Actionscript), PHP, MySQL

• Created the website and managed the community for the delegation to Australia and New Zealand.

Additional Community Involvement at University of Missouri-Columbia

Phi Kappa Phi (Honor Society) - Student Vice President, Webmaster 2005 - 2007

Engineering Dean's Scholars Program 2004 - 2007

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) 2004 - 2007