Reuben Trachtenberg
Doylestown,PA
Summary
Curious, motivated student leader with academic and professional experience in identifying, dissecting, and approaching difficult problems.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
Work History
Research Assistant
Vermont Complex Systems Center
Burlington, VT
08.2024 - 05.2025
- Completed a senior honors thesis on predicting the NBA MVP using sentiment analysis on Twitter data.
- Used aspect-based sentiment analysis with BERT to generate and store scores for over 15 million tweets.
- Invoked functions from Python's pandas, numpy, and scikit-learn packages to perform data post-processing and derive a logistic regression model.
- Read and cited relevant research papers for the finished thesis.
Teacher's Assistant
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT
01.2023 - 05.2025
- Held semiweekly office hours for students needing class support.
- Graded programming projects in C++ and Python for classes on data structures and algorithms and advanced programming.
- Aided significantly in the development of a new course titled "Puzzles, Games, & Algorithms", then served as its inaugural teaching assistant.
Research Intern
Oak Ride Institute for Science and Education
Linthicum Heights, MD
06.2024 - 08.2024
- Worked under the guidance of NSA researchers to implement a novel GraphRAG pipeline for LLMs.
- Leveraged OpenAI's GPT-4o to perform sentiment vectorization in Jupyter Notebook and employed Neo4j to store graph data.
- Presented research findings to an audience of interns and agency members.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science & Mathematics
University of Vermont Patrick Leahy Honors College
Burlington, VT05-2025
Skills
- Python, C, Java, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Wordpress
- Research design and documentation
- Leadership and mentoring
- Teamwork and collaboration
Timeline
Research Assistant
Vermont Complex Systems Center
08.2024 - 05.2025
Research Intern
Oak Ride Institute for Science and Education
06.2024 - 08.2024
Teacher's Assistant
University of Vermont
01.2023 - 05.2025
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science & Mathematics
University of Vermont Patrick Leahy Honors College