Clara Cook

Cell: 914-330-6229

Email: claracook99@gmail.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claracook/

Website: claracook.web.app

Education

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Minors: Spanish and Psychology

Focus: Higher Level Mental Processing

Expected Graduation: May 2021

Artificial Intelligence Intern (2020 - Present)

Brookhaven National Laboratory Daniel Olds, Head of PDF Beamline

• Built TensorForce custom environment for reinforcement learning paradigm for the autonomous scheduling of beamline data by applying human reinforcement schedules to machine learning
• Designed and prototyped interface to track decision making in a machine learning system based on the parameterized version of environment, allowing researchers to control hyperparameters in a GUI
• Collaborated on COVID-19 machine learning project proposal for a graphical neural net and designed interface

UX/UI Software Engineering Intern (2019 - 2020)

Neural Cloud Solutions Daniel Lundquist, CEO, CIO

• Drew website design ideas for social media platform related applications including organization of design components and executed designs in React and React Native
• Updated working websites for optimization of client consumption by using psychological principles

Research Assistant (2017 - 2019)

Psycholinguistics Department, University at Buffalo Gail Mauner, Director of Cognitive Science

• Worked with doctoral students by programming eye tracker device software for retina mapping, analyzing data, and preparing experiment with ePrime and Praat software
• Enacted video series using ambiguous noun/verbs and garden path sentences for preliterate cognitive development with child directed speech
• • Wrote debriefing papers for sound and video clip norming studies that verified ambiguous noun/verbs’ saliency

Chief Biotechnology TA (2017 - 2019)

Boston Leadership Institute Jim Dixon, Presidential Distinguished Teacher

• Lead students in advanced high school and early college level laboratories, including how to use biotechnology like CRISPR, Mitochondrial Extraction, and Protein Barcoding
• Directed and oversaw multiple TA’s projects and schedules by organizing lab preparation and lesson plans

Honors and Awards

Phi Beta Kappa (2020 - Present)

Tau Beta Pi (2020 - Present)

Sigma Delta Pi (2020 - Present)

Grace W. Capen Award 2019

Honor's College (2017 - Present)

Provost Scholarship (2017 - Present)

Dean's List (2017 - Present)

Skills and Languages

Programming Languages: React, Python, Scala, JavaScript, HTML, mySQL, SQL, SQLite, C, Node.JS, React Native, Php, Java, vis.JS, Node.JS, CSS

Additional Software: ePrime, Praat, Tensorforce, Tensor Board, Figma, Adobe Premier, Microsoft Office, InVision, Photoshop

Additional Skills: Advanced Spanish, Statistical Analysis, Molecular Biology lab techniques, DNA, Plasmid, and Mitochondrial extraction, CRISPR