Tiffany Q. Liu

Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics (LPR) Developed a cognitive architecture for a balancing mobile manipulator to interact with its environment intelligently Full-stack body of work from low-level controllers to high-level planning and UI design, with emphasis in object representation for stochastic reasoning and task-driven belief-space planning Advisor: Dr. Roderic A. Grupen, Prof. of CICS, UMass Amherst

Held weekly office hours and lab sessions to field questions and assist students with course materials and assignments Graded assignments and exams Wrote bash and Python scripts for autograders on Gradescope

Developed quality assurance test suites for Emulex products on Linux systems using Python scripts and Jenkins Investigated medium to high priority product support tickets with on-the-fly familiarization of firmware and driver code Manager: Dahai Ding, Senior Manager, DVT Engineering Mentor: Robert Atlas, Staff Engineer, Software Quality Assurance

Designed software tool for studying the rigidity of biological assemblies Performed benchmarking and profiling tests and case studies on virus related proteins Advisor: Dr. Ileana Streinu, Charles N. Clarke Prof. of Computer Science, Smith College

Worked with team of engineering students to design and develop a high elongation strain gage in dermally-applied sensors for treatment in physical therapy and outpatient rehabilitation Provided proof of concept design for a high-elongation strain gage and laid the foundation for future expansion of functionality Sponsoring Org: Protopeutics, Inc., Easthampton, MA, USA Sponsoring Liaison: Evie Huguenin Hawley, President of Protopeutics, Inc. Design Clinic Coach: Susannah Howe, Director of Design Clinic

Held office hours to field questions and guide students through course materials and assignments Directed lab sessions

Monitored usage and maintained computer and media production equipment in college media centers Assisted students with imaging tools, creating metadata descriptions in database maintenance and media production, audio recording and media editing, and duplicating/converting media Manager: Kate Lee, Senior Media Producer

Studied Complex Programmable Logic Devices and designed circuits by programming in Verilog Created a microprocessor course curriculum-compliant lab manual for reproducing the circuit designs

Designed and implemented front end and back end for generating biological assemblies of proteins for easy integration into KINARI, a web-based application for visualizing and analyzing rigidity of protein structures Advisor: Dr. Ileana Streinu, Charles N. Clarke Prof. of Computer Science, Smith College Graduate Student Mentor: Filip Jagodzinski, Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science, UMass Amherst

Set up and maintained electronic systems for professors and students in classrooms Provided technical support on computers and networking in computer centers and classrooms Manager: Kate Lee, Senior Media Producer

College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) Master's Project: "Lazy Localization: An Event-Driven Localization Policy"

Graduated cum laude with Highest Honors in Computer Science Honors Thesis: "Understanding the Effects of Symmetry on the Flexibility of Macromolecular Structure"