Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 22:31:48 GMT Server: NCSA/1.4.2 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 19:00:38 GMT Content-length: 3611 Tessa Lau's Resume Can't handle tables? Click here.

Tessa A. Lau

4103 236th St. SW Apt. I-101
Mountlake Terrace, WA 98043
(206) 640-5954 H / 543-8086 W
tlau@cs.washington.edu

Objective A summer position involving research in WWW toolkits, computer-aided navigation of the Internet, interactive networked entertainment, human-computer interface issues, or software engineering.

Education University of Washington, Seattle, WA
PhD Program, Computer Science & Engineering
Graduate GPA: 3.75

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
B.A., Computer Science, May 1995
B.S., Applied and Engineering Physics, May 1995
Undergraduate GPA: 3.91

Awards National Science Foundation Fellowship, The Boeing Company Scholarship, AT&T Graduate Program for Women grant.

Graduate Coursework Computer Architecture, Algorithms, Programming Languages, Automata and Complexity Theory, Software Engineering, Operating Systems.

Projects
  • Designed and implemented a WWW toolkit and Web navigator application
  • Co-authored a simple multiplayer, client/server networked strategy wargame for X11
  • Implemented a distributed, fault-tolerant web server using the Horus distributed toolkit
  • Implemented a real-time preemptive threads package
Experience Technical Associate Summer 1995
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
  • Designed a toolkit which provides convenient access to the WWW information (URLs and data) accessed by users
  • Modified the CERN httpd proxy server to provide this WWW information via a network socket
  • Implemented a graphical web navigator in C++ for the X window system using this WWW toolkit which displays a tree-oriented view of the links between WWW objects
Student Technical Consultant May 1994-May 1995
Cornell Theory Center, Ithaca, NY
  • Upgraded and maintained network client software for an RS/6000 cluster
  • Designed and wrote a program to automatically verify links in an HTML document by connecting to other gopher, FTP, and World Wide Web servers
  • Modified or wrote programs used to enhance and maintain the Theory Center's gopher and WWW on-line information systems
Technical Associate Summer 1993
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ
  • Designed a software package for digitizing rectangular regions of a video stream for use in measuring dynamic RHEED oscillations
  • Implemented the application using a Matrox video capture board and Borland C on a 386 PC
Skills Operating systems: UNIX (Linux, AIX, Ultrix, SunOS), X Window System, DOS, Macintosh, MS Windows
Languages: C, C++, Perl, Tcl/Tk, Pascal, Python, HTML, Java
Network protocols: HTTP, gopher, FTP, SMTP, NNTP

References available upon request. US citizen.
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/tlau/index.html