Iulia Tamas

Iulia Tamas

San Francisco, California, United States
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    San Francisco Bay Area

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    United States

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    San Francisco Bay Area

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    San Francisco Bay Area

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    San Francisco Bay Area

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    Decentralized and Distributed Systems Research

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    Yale University

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    Yale University

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    San Francisco

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    Decentralized and Distributed Systems Research

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    Yale University

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Education

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    Yale University

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    Activities and Societies: Research, Volunteer Teaching, Peer Tutoring, Adviser for the Computer Science Department

    Graduated Cum Laude with Distinction in the major.
    Won the 'Computer Science Prize' offered to one senior for "superior accomplishment and scholarly achievement."

  • Valedictorian.
    Completed the Mathematics and Computer Science track.

Volunteer Experience

  • Designer of Algorithmic Challenges

    Empowersoft

    - 2 months

    Education

    Designed 4 algorithmic problems, 2 for 9-10th graders, 2 for 11-12th graders, for the Romanian National Competition Empowersoft. The problems required students to come up with solutions involving quad trees, dynamic programming, tries, optimized greedy and recursion.

    http://empowersoft.ro/

  • Teacher

    Yale University - Splash Program

    - Present 10 years 5 months

    Education

    Co-taught a seminar on ways of approaching real-life problems using techniques derived from programming and mathematics. Introduced students to various new concepts and data structures, ranging from Random Walks, N-Grams and Matrix Theory to Map-Reduce, K-Clustering and Binary Search Trees.

  • Teacher

    Yale University - Splash Program

    - Present 10 years 10 months

    Education

    Held a seminar on the lives of some of the most influential women of the last hundred years. The biographies of Coco Chanel, Julia Child, Betty Friedan, and Ada Lovelace served as starting points for our discussions.

  • Teacher

    Yale University - Sprout Program

    - Present 11 years 2 months

    Education

    Taught a 4 week long course on Cognitive Science to middle school and high school students. The aim was looking at the human brain from the perspectives of Neuroscience, Computer Science, Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics.

  • Teacher

    Yale University - Splash Program

    - Present 11 years 6 months

    Education

    Co-taught a seminar on the evolution of fairy tales from the 1700s to the present day.

  • Computer Science Tutor

    Mihai Viteazul National College

    - 2 years 5 months

    Education

    Tutored secondary school students for the Regional, National and Balkan Phases of the Computer Science Olympiad.

Publications

Courses

  • Brain and Thought

    CGSC 201

  • Compilers

    CPSC 421

  • Data Structures and Programming Techniques

    CPSC 223

  • Design and Analysis of Algorithms

    CPSC 365

  • Intro to Cognitive Science

    CGSC 110

  • Intro to Computer Science

    CPSC 201

  • Introduction to Systems Programming and Computer Organization

    CPSC 323

  • Language and Computation

    LING 227

  • Linear Algebra and Matrix Theory

    MATH 225

  • Literature Seminar

    ENGL 115

  • Mathematical Patterns in the Natural World

    MATH 170

  • Mathematical Tools for Computer Science

    CPSC 202

  • Multivariable Calculus

    MATH 120

  • Perspectives on Human Nature

    PHIL 182

  • Probability Theory

    MATH 241

  • Statistics

    PSYC 200

  • The Language of Journalism

    ITAL 155

  • The Prose Labyrinth

    LITR 467

Honors & Awards

  • Computer Science Prize

    Department of Computer Science, Yale University

    Awarded to a senior who has exhibited superior accomplishment and scholarly achievement in Computer Science

  • Grace Hopper Scholarship

    Anita Borg Institute

  • Freshman Summer Research Fellowship in the Sciences and Engineering

    Yale University

  • Excellence Prize

    Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan

Languages

  • Romanian

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Italian

    Limited working proficiency

  • English

    Full professional proficiency

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