Ai-Linh Alten
Research Engineer I/Data Engineer - Machine Learning at Georgia Tech Research Institute
Research Engineer I/Data Engineer - Machine Learning at Georgia Tech Research Institute
Recent M.S. Computer Science graduate from San Jose State University with an interest in geospatial data science and GIS software engineering. Previously a Spatial Analysis Developer Intern for DigitalGlobe (now Maxar) working on providing fast-paced wildfire damage assessment solutions. Research background in image processing, remote sensing, GIS, machine learning, and AI. Works extremely hard and passionate, excellent leadership skills, and amiable qualities. 

Master's research project focus is on wildfire burn severity and damage assessment for high spatial resolution satellites. Provided a machine learning technical approach for post-fire ecological assessment of vegetation change and report on building damage via methods in GIS.
Georgia Tech Research Institute
https://www.linkedin.com/company/georgia-tech-research-institute
Machine learning Data Engineer for Electro-Optical Systems Lab (EOSL)
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Research Engineer I/Data Engineer - Machine Learning
DigitalGlobe
https://www.linkedin.com/company/digitalglobe
Developed customer-facing solutions for the SecureWatch platform
Provided a method to extract metal returns from RADARSAT-2 imagery to detect ships and aircrafts
Worked with Raster Data Access (RDA) to provide spatial analytics onto Exploit mode
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Part Time Product Specialist - SecureWatch
DigitalGlobe
https://www.linkedin.com/company/digitalglobe
Working with GBDX Solutions team for GBDX Notebooks to produce tutorials for various remote sensing use cases and solutions.
Developing a Big Data solution for post-fire damage assessment on WorldView-3 high resolution imagery.
Notebook Tutorial: https://notebooks.geobigdata.io/hub/tutorials/9lmsmz8rs3nwafn9942z?tab=code
Westminister, Colorado
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Spatial Analysis Developer Intern
San Jose State University
https://www.linkedin.com/company/san-jose-state-university
Tech support for staff and students in the Student Union and Event Center.
Student Union
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Computer Service Technician
UC Merced
https://www.linkedin.com/company/university-of-california-merced
Computer lab assistant for the SpARC lab at UC Merced. 

Helps work on projects pertaining to ArcGIS. Current project is digitizing historical maps and categorizing the polygons by their empire or dynasty.
University of California, Merced
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Spatial Analysis Research Center Student Assistant
UC Merced
https://www.linkedin.com/company/university-of-california-merced
Worked under the supervision of Professor Shawn Newsam at the UC Merced Computer Vision Lab
Assigned to create a website for collecting pollution data and ground-level images
Created bash/batch scripts to push images from ARS digicam to Linux webserver via SCP
Built and maintaining website with HTML/CSS: http://atget.vision.ucmerced.edu/
Collected data for supervised learning - parse a CSV files from valleyair.org with a Python script to label images with PM2.5 data
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Undergraduate Research Assistant
UC Merced
https://www.linkedin.com/company/university-of-california-merced
Worked at UC Merced's IT Help Desk as a Student Technology Consultant. As an STC, we provide desktop support to students, faculty, and staff and troubleshoots software-level issues while being able to provide proper feedback to the clientele. Developed troubleshooting and IT skills with Windows and Mac OS X.
Help Desk
Information Technology Consultant
S&C Electric Company
https://www.linkedin.com/company/s&c-electric-company
Developed a website app w/ Google Maps and Flask that takes HTML form data to process with Java servlet in order to output faults onto electrical grid lines. Queried from a Neo4j database in order to draw map overlays with Google Maps JavaScript API. 

Tools: Google Maps JavaScript API, Flask (WSGI - Python), Apache Tomcat (Java Servlet), Neo4j
Alameda, California
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Software Engineer Intern
European School of Piano
Taught piano to students of all ages and basic music theory.
Fremont
Piano Teacher
Master of Science - MS
Master's Project published Dec. 2019 under guidance of Dr. Ching-seh (Mike) Wu.
Computer Science
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San Jose State University
https://www.linkedin.com/school/san-jose-state-university/
Certificate
Advanced Certificate in GIS (completed 9 out of 15 units)
GIS
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San Jose State University
https://www.linkedin.com/school/san-jose-state-university/
Bachelor’s Degree
Computer Science and Engineering
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University of California, Merced
https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-california-merced/
Introduction to Linux Administration
Computer Networking Essentials
Linux Programming
Deep Learning and AI with TensorFlow and Keras
Programming for Cloud Computing: Amazon Web Services
Docker Containers In-Depth
MySQL and Oracle Database for Developers and Designers
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UCSC Silicon Valley Extension
https://www.linkedin.com/school/ucsc-silicon-valley-extension/
Secretary between May 2018 - Aug 2018. President between August 2018 - December 2018.
Club Archery at SJSU
President
Level 2 instructor and club president of UC Merced Archery Club. President between Aug 2015 - May 2017.
UC Merced Archery Club
President
Association of Computing Machinery at UC Merced
Member
CS298 Master's project completed for degree in Computer Science. 

This publication demonstrates the use of high-resolution Earth Observation satellite imagery to determine burn severity levels. Technical approach includes image processing object segmentation, classification algorithms in machine learning, and a GIS data visualization. Experiments include the usage of AWS EC2, Scikit-Learn, and Apache Spark.

https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/etd_projects/898
Assessing Wildfire Damage from High Resolution Satellite Imagery Using Classification Algorithms
ScholarWorks
https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/etd_projects/898/
Accepted for presentation and publication at ICAIBD 2019. This paper demonstrates the use of NLTK and Hadoop MapReduce to provide sentiment analysis on trending news topics with Twitter data for cities and states. Visualizations are done with d3.js. 

10.1109/ICAIBD.2019.8837010
Analyzing Happiness Index Based on Geographical Locations
IEEE
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8837010
Received higher than a 3.5 GPA for Academic year 2015-2016
Office of the Registrar
Chancellor's Honor
Received this award for being a proactive officer of the UC Merced Archery Club and obtaining a Level 2 Coach certification from USA Archery. Her club is the biggest sports club of 35 members with 9 competitive team members. 

During the academic year of 2015 - 2016, Ai-Linh took her teammates to 5 archery tournaments.

The Archery Club also participated in the following community services: 
- Merced Boys & Girls Club: Trunk or Treat
- UC Merced Rotaract Club: Building Water Pasteurization Indicators (WAPi)
- UC Merced Information Technology: IT services and security awareness fair
Margo F. Souza Student Leadership Center
Female Sports Club Athlete of the Year
Received higher than a 3.5 GPA for Fall 2015
Office of the Registrar
Dean's Honor
Received higher than a 3.5 GPA for Spring 2014.
Office of the Registrar
Dean's Honor
Advanced GIS
GEOG 171
Advanced Programming Language Principles
CS 252
Advanced Topics in Computer Science: Python for Data Analytics
CS 286
Formal Languages and Computability
CS 154
Linear and Non-linear Optimization
Math 177
Machine Learning
CMPE 257
Object Oriented Analysis
CS 251A
Probability and Statistics I
Math 161A
Remote Sensing: Basic Theory and Image Interpretation
GEOG 181
Topics in Artificial Intelligence
CS 256
Topics in Database Systems
CS 267
User Interface Design
CS 235
Computer Architecture
CSE 140
Computer Graphics
CSE 170
Computer Vision
CSE 185
Database Systems
CSE 111
Digital Image Processing
CSE 107
Discrete Mathematics
ENGR 160
Introduction to Algorithms
CSE 100
Java Programming
CSE 20/21
Linear Analysis I
MATH 141
MIPS/Assembly Programming
CSE 31
Machine Learning
CSE 176
Making Electronic Music
GASP 036A
Object-Oriented Programming
ENGR 140
Parallel Computing
CSE 179
Spatial Analysis and Modeling
ENGR 180
Computer Networking Essentials
2458.(132)
Deep Learning and AI with TensorFlow and Keras
DBDA.X425
Docker Containers In-Depth
ITEC.800.(3)
Introduction to Linux Administration
2215.(165)
Linux Programming
3493.(115)
MySQL and Oracle Database for Developers and Designers
DBDA.X409.(802)
Programming for Cloud Computing: Amazon Web Services
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Data Structures and Programming Methodology (UC Berkeley)
CS61bl
Generate Marc Chagall expressionism art style images with GAN. Will be done with TensorFlow.
Marc Chagall Art Style Transfer with CycleGAN
Master's Project for MSCS.
Assessing Wildfire Damage from High Resolution Satellite Imagering Using Classification Algorithms
https://github.com/aalten77/wildfireassessment
Creating a programming language to help teach kids how to write code. This project focuses on allowing them to draw shapes and add colors onto a canvas to give them visual code via graphics. PLY is used as the Parser and Lexer. Tkinter is used for the GUI.
Visual Programming Language for Kids
https://github.com/aalten77/CS252_Project
Detecting hotspots using Chicago Crime data from Google BigQuery API. DBSCAN used for clustering and use heatmap map for visualization of hotspots.
Cluster Analysis Crime Hot Spot Detection in Chicago
https://aalten77.github.io/ChicagoCrimesHeatmap
Manipulation and fly-through of point cloud data using OpenFrameworks
Point Cloud Virtual Tour
https://github.com/aalten77/PointCloudVirtualTour
Extending the challenge from The Coding Train. Creating an interactive time visualization map of earthquakes globally. Data provided by USGS.

Using P5.js and Google Maps Static API.
EarthquakeViz
https://github.com/aalten77/EarthquakeViz
Multi-class LULC classification using UC Merced public dataset with 21 classes
Feature extraction using SIFT for codebook generation and SVM for classification
Explored stability of traditional BOVW model with 5-fold cross validation
Bag of Visual Words for Land-Use Land-Cover Classification
https://github.com/aalten77/Bag-of-Visual-Words-LULC/blob/master/AAlten_CS256_BOVWLULC.pdf
Exploratory data analysis project with on data cleaning, transformation, and visualization
Data cleaning done with KNN imputation, log transformation, and feature pruning
Performed dependency hypothesis tests using Pearson correlation and logistic regression
Explored stability of SVM model using 5-fold cross validation and ROC curve

Link to written project report: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tfIhlftjTDQzf5-ojCu5mFbNIXgyeCyD
Predicting Survivors of the Titanic using Kaggle Titanic Dataset
https://github.com/aalten77/CODE_FINAL_286
Used a binary classification Random Forest model to identify destroyed buildings in Sonoma, CA
Compare Random Forest model to Normalized Burn Ratio methods on Sentinel and WorldView3

Notebook Tutorial: https://notebooks.geobigdata.io/hub/tutorials/9lmsmz8rs3nwafn9942z?tab=code

Extension to this Notebook here: https://github.com/aalten77/WildfiresPilot
WildfiresPilot was created as a way to train models after getting labelled features from a Tomnod campain (future work).
Post-Fire Damage Assessment from High Resolution Imagery
https://github.com/aalten77/nbburntbuildings
•	Perform sentiment analysis on 200,000+ tweets on topics ranging from politics to movie reviews
•	Visualize results in Google Maps for tweets coming from highly populated cities in USA

View map online demo here: https://aalten77.github.io/HappyMapViz/
Analyzing Happiness Map Index via Twitter Sentiment
https://github.com/shishirkulkarni/happy-map
This project will focus mainly on one of the most famous tourist spots in Juneau, Alaska: the Mendenhall Glacier. This glacier has been receding over many decades and I will find out how much longer tourists or locals will have to see this glacier. I will also find out if this correlation with factors such as temperature over time or weather.
Timelapse of Mendenhall Glacier and Correlation with Temperature
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YQ9rtzcGvHKOf3DM2ujhghO0amyV4MZZ/view?usp=sharing
Computer graphics project that required building 3D objects in space and mapping to a 2D plane (image space). Included shading and shadows for 3D effect. Built with C++ and no external tools.
Ray Tracing
https://github.com/aalten77/Ray-Tracer
Building website for Professor Shawn Newsam to raise public awareness on air pollution. Website is implemented with HTML, CSS and images are imported with PHP script. Web scraping technique implemented by Landon Taylor to pull data of current ozone concentration in units of ppb from valleyair.org
UC Merced Visibility Web Camera
CSE 170 Computer Graphics Project. Created a Baymax character with 5 degrees of rotation using OpenGL freeglut. Also used texture mapping for background and floor, used gourraud shader for Baymax, and projected a shadow.
Baymax
https://github.com/aalten77/Baymax
Project for Spatial analysis.

Created a time series geovisual map in Google Maps of AQI stations throughout the US. Daily AQI values were stored into a SQLite database and queried using Flask-SQLAlchemy. Used AJAX to request for lat/lngs and AQI values for the given date. Database stored the years 2010-2016. Geovisual was a bubble map that scaled depending on AQI value and changed color using a gradient based on AQI levels 1-6. 

Data: daily AQI data based on PM2.5 particulates from the US EPA
PM 2.5 Mapping
https://github.com/aalten77/PM2.5-Mapping
Cartoonization Filter built with MATLAB IPT.

Filter contains the following:
- bilateral filter applied on L*ab space (3 times)
- canny edge detector maximized and threshold bounded with Otsu's method 
- quantization to 16 color bins
- image reduced in size to speed up computation
Cartoonize Me!
https://github.com/aalten77/Cartoonize-Me-
Personal project for UC Merced Archery club implemented with HTML/CSS and Bootstrap. Used SQLite to create database. In progress of implementing Facebook Graph API
UC Merced Archery website
https://aalten77@bitbucket.org/aalten77/ucm-archery.git
This is a demo project to start implementing OpenGL applications
using freeglut. This game is based off the board game Blokus Duo.
Blokus Duo
https://aalten77@bitbucket.org/goatsecx/oop-final-project.git
USA Archery
USA Archery Level 2 Instructor
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindseynield
Denver Metropolitan Area
Lindsey Nield
Machine Learning Software Engineer at arturo.ai
https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-lewis-corker
Atlanta Metropolitan Area
John Corker
Modeling and Simulation Student Assistant at Georgia Tech Research Institute (EOSL)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kckroll
Englewood, CO
KC Kroll
Technology and Market Accelerator Partnerships
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yiming-yu
Atlanta, GA
YiMing Yu
Research Scientist II | Senior Software Engineer | Applied Math PhD
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-wong-79617a168
Marietta, GA
Michael Wong
Research Scientist I at Georgia Tech Research Institute
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-mcgill-3a1929162
Atlanta, GA
Ryan McGill
Research Engineer at Georgia Tech Research Institute
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tschweizer
Seattle, WA
Thomas Schweizer
Research Assistant, PhD Student
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zheyin-liang
Greater Phoenix Area
Zheyin Liang
Backend Engineer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepak-munagala
San Jose, CA
Deepak Munagala
MS CS student at SJSU | 3 years experience with software development in Java, Javascript, C++
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaneesha-gandhi
United States
Kaneesha Gandhi
MSCS Student at San Jose State University
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aditya-upadhyay-ncsu-2017
San Francisco Bay Area
Aditya Upadhyay
Strategist at Google | MCS with Data Science from NCSU
https://in.linkedin.com/in/shreyanshchordia
Mumbai
Shreyansh Chordia
Technology Analyst at MSCI Inc. | Azure DevOps, Cloud
https://www.linkedin.com/in/prakhar-bhartiya
Tempe, AZ
Prakhar Bhartiya
Actively looking for summer internship | MSCS Graduate @ASU
https://www.linkedin.com/in/skandabhargav
Seattle, WA
Skanda Bhargav
Software Development Engineer at Amazon
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pavleen-kaur-machine-learning
San Jose, CA
Pavleen Kaur
Machine Learning Engineer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shwetanshu-rohatgi
Seattle, WA
Shwetanshu Rohatgi
SDE @ AWS | Ex-SDE Intern @ PayPal | MS in CS @ USC’20
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vartikavt
San Francisco Bay Area
Vartika Sharma
Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech
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