I'm interested in human computation ("crowdsourcing") and machine learning. My advisor is Luis von Ahn

I've been a teaching assistant for the following courses:

Great Theoretical Ideas in Computer Science, 15-251, CMU, spring 2008
Computational Science, ETH, spring 2006

Matchin: Eliciting User Preferences with an Online Game
with Luis von Ahn. Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award (top 5%) CHI 2009

some of the courses I have taken:

Probabilistic Graphical Models, 10-708
Statistical Machine Learning, 10-702
Graduate Algorithms, 15-750
Intermediate Statistics, 36-705

I hope you are!

the best way to contact me is by email sha...@cs.cmu.edu
my office is in Wean Hall 5123