Alice Zhou is a computer science graduate from USC seeking new opportunities. She has a Master's in Computer Science from USC and a Bachelor's in Automation Science and Electrical Engineering from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Her experience includes internships developing distributed control systems and conducting directed research at USC on code counting systems. She has experience with projects involving web and Android applications, database GUI applications, web crawlers, and robot navigation algorithms.

1. Alice Zhou
2133 Norwood St. Apt 2, Los Angeles, CA, 90007
alice.chou55@gmail.com
EDUCATION
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 09/2012-12/2014
Master of Science, Computer Science GPA: 3.84/4.0
Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China 09/2008-06/2012
Bachelor of Engineering, Automation Science and Electrical Engineering GPA: 3.4/4.0
WORK EXPERIENCE
Software Engineer Internship 05/2014-09/2014
Chongqing Academy of Science and Technology, Chongqing, China
 Participated in the development of a distributed control system based on B/S structure to monitor real-time water supply.
 Managed the database, analyzed monitoring data and fixed bugs reported by users.
PROJECT EXPERIENCE
Directed Research, Unified Code Count System 09/2014-12/2014
Center for Systems & Software Engineering, USC, Los Angeles, CA
 Implemented new parameters to make the system run on multiple passes and combine results based on users’ need.
 Developed test cases for new features on different operating systems.
Environment: C++, SVN, Ubuntu, g++
Web and Android Application Development Based on AJAX 11/2013-12/2013
 Designed a web application, retrieving weather information form Yahoo and sharing posts on Facebook.
 Developed a same functionally Android application integrated with Android SDK and Facebook API.
Environment: Java, Java Servlet, JavaScript, PHP, HTML, CSS, Apache, Tomcat, Android SDK, AWS
Database GUI Application Development 02/2014-03/2014
 Created data model of a social network using ER diagram and wrote SQL queries to build relational database in Oracle.
 Designed and implemented an end to end Java GUI application that queried the relational database with JDBC.
 Wrote queries in Map Reduce executed on top of Amazon web service and evaluated performances for large data set.
Environment: Java, JDBC, Oracle 11g, SQL, Eclipse, Hadoop, AWS EC2
Generic Web Crawler for Restaurant Websites 11/2014-12/2014
Built a database to manage restaurant and menus information.
Developed a generic crawler using Java to parse restaurant websites collecting contact information and menu items.
Managed all menus and give restaurant recommendation based on keywords.
Environment: Java, MySQL, JDBC, Apache, PHP, NetBeans
Wheel-bot Navigation in a Stochastic Environment 09/2013-11/2013
 Programmed a robot in C++, searching paths by A* algorithm in a given map with unknown obstacles.
 Upgraded the robot to explore unknown map, analyzing local sensor to avoid pits and shoot moving wumpus.
Environment: C++, Visual Studio, ReMod 3D simulator, OpenGL