Dennis Shtatnov

Hacker • Engineer • Designer • Researcher

Education

Courses:

Developing an interactive textbook and learning application currently in pilot testing at Drexel University.
Implementing machine learning algorithms for modeling users and personalizing education.
Applying symbolic computation systems towards automatic grading and smart feedback generation.
Implementing algorithms for operational transformation, graph optimization, and database concurrency management.
Managing front-end and back-end development as well as server infrastructure monitoring/setup.

Researching and testing new approaches to multi-view stereo and material recognition.
Implement reconstruction/recognition systems using OpenCV, ROS, PCL, NumPy, CUDA.
Collaborate with an intercollegiate team of graduate students to create large vision and robotics systems.

Assisted students directly in problem solving and comprehension of advanced computer science material.
Managed groups of TAs in completing grading on time and managing course assignments.
Developed automated code testing scripts for verifying code correctness and for large-scale grading.
Lead computer programming labs alongside professors and other TAs.
Courses assisted: CS 161, CS 265, CS 283

Build a WYSIWIG from scratch using custom paragraph rendering code and custom cursor management and layout algorithms.
Does NOT use contenteditable or any direct input elements
Completely versioned and differential editor for efficiency and cross-browser syncing/collaboration

Designed and engineered the hardware and electronics for a chalkboard mounted plotter using CAD software
Wrote an internal tool for parsing SVG files, rasterizing them using offset polygons, approximating them as lower order polynomials and outputting them as GCODE
Experience with mechanical system tuning and computational geometry

Wrote algorithms for precise control of a swarm of quadcopters using a motion capture system
Work premiered in a live performance by Parsons Dance Company
Personally designed a custom mechanical quadcopter platform with 3d printed

Designed and built a 260mm quadcopter with 2 RGB spot lights and 20+ min battery life