One of my favorite algorithms in graph theory is Union Find. It is a beautiful algorithm to group disjoint sets. A disjoint set is a set of nodes in an undirected graph that contains itself, and is not connected to other sets.
I’ve been working full time as a software engineer since Feb 2020. The next month will mark my 5 year career as a software engineer. I’m currently a SDE at Amazon, and I previously worked at a startup. If I include my college era where I had an internship at PayPal, I have been involved in software development for 8 years now. I want to write a little reflection on my professional career so far with some tips I have for other people trying to get into the tech industry.
There’s a huge difference among a startup, large corp and academia and I wanted to share some of my experiences.
ICPC stands for International Collegiate Programming Contest. It is the largest competitive programming (CP) competition among the universities of the world.
We started a senior design project titled “Artificial Intelligent Requirement Analysis Tools”, an yearlong project with Collins Aerospace.
I’m excited to announce that Primer Server we developed at Vollbrecht Lab is finally up on the Iowa State website.
I presented a poster about Primer Server at the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research at University of Central Oklahoma last week.
A PCR genome primer designer with a user-friendly graphical interface.
Automatic pollen molecule image filtering on multiple pollen images.
This add-on arranges a collection of samples into an 8 x 12 (96 well) array and creates labeled, hard-copy plate maps for sample collection into a standard, 96-well format rack.
Genomic selection simulation that helps plant breeders predict plants with the best genomes
This program converts an Arabic number to a Japanese/Chinese number.
This is a self organization algorithm test using Kohonen’s self-organizing map theory.
