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Gregory Ference

  • Graduate Student
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802

Education:

  1. Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering (In Progress)
  2. Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (In Progress)
  3. Bachelor of Science in Mathematics (In Progress)

Biography:

For research, I am currently developing next-generation location recommendation services by incorporating social networks, spatial databases, data mining, information retrieval, and mobile computing techniques.  I am a member of the Pervasive Data Access Group (PDA) and my research adviser is Dr. Wang-Chien Lee.

Relevant Employment: 

Google Inc.
Software Engineering Intern
Summer 2012
  • To be completed this summer


Cisco Systems, Inc.
Software Intern
Summer 2011
  • Developed software that collects and displays performance statistic information for networks
  • Implemented features using Java, JavaScript and JSP in a Linux environment
  • Improved user interface by replacing and modifying new graphing package
  • Created reports that polled data from devices and displayed data in graphs, tables and CSV files


Westinghouse Electric Company
Software Engineering Intern
Summer 2010
  • Programmed software for the safety system of a nuclear power plant using the C programming language
  • Built shell scripts to control multiple software applications on a UNIX platform
  • Designed and implemented custom screens to allow users to retrieve safety-related information
  • Collaborated with coworkers to design and develop large, technically complex software


Compunetix, Inc.
Software Engineering Intern
Summer 2009
  • Performed system analysis and software development with video conferencing software
  • Developed software in Java using techniques such as multithreading and hash tables
  • Accomplished many steps in the software engineering lifecycle, from requirement analysis to implementing, testing and documenting