Andy Malinsky

Experience

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  Montgomery County Community College

  Jun 2017 - May 2018

  IT Technical Help Desk Specialist

  -Provide technical support via phone, walk-up, email, or Live Support-Monitor, coordinate, and create service tickets assigned to queue-Maintain and update Knowledge Base articles as needed-Troubleshooting hardware and printer issues-Software installation

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  Arcadia University

  Sept 2018 - May 2019

  Computer Science/Math Department Grant - Student Research Assistant

  Debugging, testing, development, and documentation for the GenCyberCoin project, a web platform for cybersecurity education. GenCyberCoin is the project developed by Dr. Vitaly Ford in collaboration with Cybersecurity Education Research and Outreach Center at Tennessee Tech University (Dr. Ambareen Siraj) as a part of the NSA/NSF GenCyber grant.

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  National Science Foundation (NSF)

  May 2019 - Aug 2019

  Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship at Lehigh University

  -Participated in the Intelligent and Scalable Systems Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/REU/-Investigated the impact of text visualization on political frame interpretability through the Design, Algorithms, and Society Lab-Designed, implemented, and visualized three different computational representations of text: proximity-weighted co-occurrence, topic modeling, and word embedding-Used Python to build a Harmonic Series, LDA, and Word2Vec model-Used JSON and JavaScript to visualize the texts as interactive word web networks-Conducted a user study using Qualtrics and MTurk to test for frame effect mitigation-Currently working on a paper for publication Show less

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  Arcadia University

  Sept 2019 - May 2020

  AMC Lab Research Assistant

  Assistant in Dr. Katherine Moore's Attention, Memory & Cognition laboratory housed in the Psychology Department at Arcadia University. Worked on programming in MATLAB to implement eye tracking software for a study on visual attention. Utilized the Psychtoolbox library to interface with an SR Research EyeLink 1000 eye tracker.

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  Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst

  Aug 2020 - Oct 2021

  Helped students learn programming using JavaScript. Prepared lab reviews of course topics for groups of 30 students, hosted office hours for questions/debugging, and graded coursework and exams.

  • Research Assistant - BINDS Lab

    Jan 2021 - Oct 2021

  • Teaching Assistant - CS220 Programming Methodology

    Aug 2020 - Dec 2020
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  TCG

  Mar 2022 - now

  Software Developer