Academics
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Third year Computer Science graduate student in the Ph.D. program.
- Specializing in Scientific Computing, with focus on applications to astrodynamics.
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Bucknell University
- Graduated May 2002 Summa Cum Laude - Double Major: Mathematics & Computer Science.
- Overall GPA: 3.97 Computer Science GPA: 4.0.
- Top of the 2002 Bucknell Computer Science class.
- Member: Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, Pi Mu Epsilon Math Honor Society.
- Four (of Four) President’s Awards for Academic Achievement. Eight (of Eight) Dean’s List Awards.
Industry
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BBN Technologies - Research Engineer
- Designed and developed network security software capable of analyzing
massive quantities (terabytes) of network traffic for computers behaving suspiciously.
- Member of Systems Engineering team designing the top-level architecture of the DARPA Future
Combat Systems software.
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Sonix, Inc. - Software Engineer
- Founding member the Software Engineering Department at Sonix.
- Lead developer of robotics control software for next generation automated scanners.
- Developed Functional Requirement Specifications, Test Plans, and Designs documentation for next
generation .NET based products.
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Microsoft - Software Test Engineer Intern
- Worked in the NetMeeting group testing functionality of the product features.
- Developed tools that enable automated testing of software.
Publications
- A. Colombi, A. H. Hirani, B. F. Villac (2007). Efficient Gravity Field Computation
for Trajectory Propagation Near Small Bodies.
To appear in the Proceedings of the AAS/AIAA Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting.
Sedona, Arizona.
- X. Jiao, A. Colombi, X. Ni, J. Hart (2006). Anisotropic Mesh Adaptation.
In the Proceedings of the 15th International Meshing Roundtable.
Birmingham, Alabama.
- C. T. Kello, D. E. Sibley, A. Colombi (2004). Using simple
recurrent networks to learn fixed-length representations of
variable-length strings. In the Proceedings of the AAAI
Symposium on Compositional Connectionism. Washington, DC.