To reinvent the world and imagine the future.
My favourite pastime is thinking about digital technology and the way in which it guides human behavior. Some recent topics I find interesting include: copyright reform, Internet censorship, increasing wealth disparity as a result of technology, liberation technology, Bitcoin, gender and racial equality, online education, and political fragmentation.
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To reinvent the world and imagine the future.
My favourite pastime is thinking about digital technology and the way in which it guides human behavior. Some recent topics I find interesting include: copyright reform, Internet censorship, increasing wealth disparity as a result of technology, liberation technology, Bitcoin, gender and racial equality, online education, and political fragmentation.
In my opinion, we are all products of our time whether we obey it, fight it, or ignore it. By understanding the era we live in, we see where we stand in the bigger picture.
Technology is a force of evolution that exerts selective pressure on our behavior, psychology, and physiology. This can be some as mundane as our odd habit of constantly swiping our thumbs over a piece of rectangular glass, or it can come in much more visceral forms, such as performance enhancing cybernetic augmentation.
When Google Glass becomes Google Lens, will privacy survive as a concept? As digital copyright enforcement becomes granular and instantaneous, will every act of expression require micro-payments? When our brains are eventually wired directly to the network, will we still be human? These are the questions through which I parse the growth of technology.
Tech Columnist @ Regular column on various tech and policy issues. Some writing samples:
http://www.stanforddaily.com/2014/01/07/locked-into-bitcoin/
http://www.stanforddaily.com/2014/05/05/ukraine-the-right-history-a-counterpoint-on-ukraine/
http://www.stanforddaily.com/2014/08/05/dota-2-the-face-of-professional-gaming/
http://www.stanforddaily.com/2014/10/19/the-nerds-have-inherited-the-earth/
http://www.stanforddaily.com/2015/01/04/revisting-silicon-valleys-obsession-with-immigration-reform/ From January 2013 to Present (3 years) Course Assistant @ Course assistant for various classes:
CS 145 - Introduction to Databases
CS 110 - Principles of Computer Systems
CS 155 - Computer and Network Security
CS 181 - Computers, Ethics, and Public Policy
THINK29 - Networks: Ecological, Revolutionary, Digital
INFO 290A - Social Data Revolution (at Berkeley) From March 2014 to June 2015 (1 year 4 months) Software Engineer Intern @ Mobile development on the Android team. Worked on Microsoft Office integration in the main Dropbox app. From June 2014 to September 2014 (4 months) San Francisco Bay AreaCS Section Leader @ Teaching introductory Computer Science sections for CS 106A/B/X. From April 2013 to March 2014 (1 year) Intern @ Part-time internship as part of a quarter abroad at Stanford's overseas Russian program. Classifying screenshots and identifying malicious programs using Python. From October 2013 to November 2013 (2 months) Software Engineering Intern @ Frontend development using Backbone.js and jQuery to create an interactive UI for image comparison using various techniques such as swipes and diff overlays. Implemented GitHub and Dropbox integration with job management and background file pushing using Sidekiq. From June 2013 to September 2013 (4 months) Intern @ Moved to VMware as part of VMware's acquisition of Nicira. From August 2012 to August 2012 (1 month) Software Engineering Intern @ Worked on upgrades for Nicira’s Network Virtualization Platform, including designing and implementing modifications to Google Protocol Buffers in C++ and Python and various associated test automation. From June 2012 to August 2012 (3 months) Project Clerk @ Designed and implemented Access and Excel VBScript macros used in human resource management applications. From January 2009 to January 2011 (2 years 1 month) Singapore
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science @ Stanford University From 2011 to 2015 GCE Advanced Level @ Raffles Junior College From 2007 to 2008 Raven Jiang is skilled in: C, C++, CSS, C#, HTML, JavaScript, Python, Press Releases, Media Relations, International Relations, Java, Photoshop, MySQL, Unix Shell Scripting, PHP
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