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Hami Abdi

2015.December.9:

Hami is an undergraduate at Carleton College majoring in computer science. Hami’s undergraduate senior thesis is Scene Reconstruction from Photographs, an application of computer vision to create 3D models of structures from a series of photographs (similar to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgBQCoEfiMs). A useful application of this is in creating a virtual tour of a college campus from a series of photographs for prospective students. This past summer (2015), he interned at as a Software Development Engineer (SDE) intern at Amazon in Seattle. His current research interests lie in human-computer interaction, social networks, cryptography, and artificial intelligence. During his free time, he enjoys going to the gym, playing/listening to music, reading, and helping out with projects (e.g. Dormcuts: http://college.usatoday.com/2015/10/17/dorm-hair-cuts/). He is working at ArticuLab on the Alex project as a Kolenkow-Reitz fellow.