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Tasha Vanesian


Course Title: Introduction to Programming with ALICE
Department:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Email: tcvanesi@ucsd.edu

Education

In progress
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of California, San Diego

2006
Master of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of California, San Diego

2003
Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering,
California Institute of Technology

 

Experience

Teaching assistant and reader for courses in the ECE department at UCSD (2003-present).
Courses include:
Introduction to Computer Engineering,
Engineering Probability and Statistics,
Introduction to Intelligent Systems: Robotics and Machine Intelligence, and Introduction to Linear and Nonlinear Optimization with Applications.
As teaching assistant, created homework assignments and helped with creation of exam questions, held office hours and review sessions, maintained class webpage, and graded assignments and exams.

 

Honors/Affiliations/Publications

Vanesian, T., K. Kreutz-Delgado, G. Burgin, D. Fogel. (2007).
Algorithmic Tools for Adversarial Games: Intent Analysis Using Evolutionary Computation.
In 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Security and Defense Applications. (pp. 108-115).

2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Security and Defense Applications.
Awarded Best Student Paper and a student travel grant.

In conjunction with Natural Selection, Inc., developed algorithms for intent analysis in adversarial games using evolutionary computation techniques.

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