Brandon Liu

Advised by Professors James Grimmelmann and Solon Barocas. Currently on leave at NYU Law.

Visiting Researcher with Everwell Health Solutions. Research Mentor: Bill Thies 99DOTS: Using technology to improve tuberculosis adherence. https://www.99dots.org

-- Full-stack development contracts in mobile development, web development, social media analytics, predictive analytics, and data visualization. -- Skillshare class on "Technical Decision-Making for Non-Technical Founders." Taught 8+ times at Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge Innovation Center, etc. -- Teaching Fellow for CS 124: Data Structures and Algorithms -- Seminar Leader and Speaker for CS 50 and HackHarvard on Vim, PHP, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Web Development, etc.

Theoretical and experimental simulation research in transitive trust models. Developed a new reputation mechanism, 'Personalized Hitting Time,' designed approximation algorithms, and derived theoretical and empirical results showing sustained accuracy in the presence of strategic manipulation by malicious agents. First author on refereed paper at 2016 International Conference for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS '16): "Personalized Hitting Time for Informative Trust Mechanisms Despite Sybils"

Computational and statistical genetics research at the Broad Institute. Identifying causal GWAS variants with the Massively Parallel Reporter Assay (MPRA) by RNA-Seq and statistical modeling. 4th author on Cell publication "Direct Identification of Hundreds of Expression-Modulating Variants using a Multiplexed Reporter Assay"

Tech in the World provides global health fellowships for top computer science students. www.techintheworld.org

Led team to first place victory at Boston regional competition against MIT, Brown, and other local universities.

Research in development economics: analyzing market failures in agricultural technologies among subsistence farmers in rural Kenya. Performed geospatial statistical analysis in Stata, R, and Python.

-- Developed new features for Asana Inbox and Asana Mobile in the Luna programming framework -- Helped migrate our testing cluster from OSX machines in the closet to Ubuntu on AWS, parallelizing tests across 40 machines to reduce test times by 60% -- Wrote a Sinatra app for a testing dashboard that integrates with Jenkins

Teaching Fellow for CS 124: Data Structures and Algorithms under Michael Mitzenmacher, Professor and Area Dean of Computer Science.

-- Application was live 12 primary health centers in Karnataka, India serving over 3500 patients -- Won National 4th place in the Microsoft US Imagine Cup Software Design Category.