Tyson Williams

University of Wisconsin - Madison

B.S. Computer Science
B.S. Computer Engineering
Expected graduation: May 2015

Repustate Intern - San Francisco, CA (remote) - 06/13 - present

• Repustate specializes in machine learning technology and multilingual social media analytics
• Publish white papers highlighting interesting trends or insights from social media
• Keywords: sentiment analysis, data mining, machine learning

AVOS Intern at zeen.com|del.icio.us - San Francisco, CA - Summer 2012

• Worked directly with YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steven Chen on a daily basis
• Helped launch Zeen.com and contributed to a redesign of del.icio.us
• Assisted in the formation and growth of a startup incubator

Rising Sun Energy Services Intern - Berkeley, CA - Summer 2012

• Designed and implemented a social outreach plan around the SF Bay area

DoIT Student Devoloper - Madison, WI - 08/11 - present

• Collect and analyze data regarding technology usage on campus
• Assess and recommend plans for technology implementation around campus/li>
• Test and evaluate new software for the University of Wisconsin system

Experimental Aircraft AssociationSecurity Infrastructure - Oshkosh, WI - 2008 - 2010

• Oversaw the operation of security surveillance in a high-pressure environment

Best BuyCounter Intelligence Agent - Appleton, WI - 2011

• Repaired computer hardware and software for Geek Squad
• Communicated with stores and corporate regarding repair understructure

I authored a white paper pursuing the hypothesis of media sentiment affecting team performance.

Using item-to-item collaborative filtering, I helped to build a recommendation system using Yelp's academic dataset.

Spam Classification with a Naïve Bayes Classifier

Built a naïve Bayes classifier to classify spam SMS.

Embedded word k-NN Classifier

Built a k-Nearest Neighbor classifier in Java.

Decision Tree for German Credit Ratings

A Java implementation of a decision tree to predict good or bad credit.

Twitter Clone

Created and deployed a Twitter clone on Heroku using Redis and bottle.py.

Unix Shell

Built a command line interpreter in C.

Demand paging system

Designed a fully functional demand paged virtual memory system.

Software RAID manager

Implemented a software RAID manager in C.

iOS Calculator

Designed a calculator in Objective-C using Xcode.

Stanford University: Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Data Sets

Algorithmic and statistical challenges in modern large-scale data analysis.