seeking summer internship 
   
                                Ken Takusagawa
                                       
   PO Box 397166, Cambridge, MA 02139-7166, 857-998-7158, kenta AT
   mit.edu
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   Education
          Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
          
          + Ph.D candidate, Electrical Enginnering and Computer Science
            (2000-current)
          + S.M., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2003
            
          Stanford University, Stanford, CA
          
          + B.S. with honors, Computer Science, 2000
          + B.A., Economics, 2000
          + Cumulative GPA: 3.91 / 4.0
            
   Publications
          
          + "Transcriptional regulatory code of a eukaryotic genome."
            C. Harbison, D. B. Gordon, T. I. Lee, N. J. Rinaldi,
            K. D. MacIsaac, T. W. Danford, N. M. Hannett, J. B. Tagne,
            D. B. Reynolds, J. Yoo, E. G. Jennings, J. Zeitlinger,
            D. K. Pokholok, M. Kellis, P. A. Rolfe, K. T. Takusagawa,
            E. S. Lander, D. K. Gifford, E. Fraenkel, and R. A. Young.
            Nature, 431:99-104, September, 2004.
          + "Negative Information for Motif Discovery." K. T. Takusagawa
            and D. K. Gifford, Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB),
            9:360-371, 2004.
          + "SPOOK: A system for probabilistic object-oriented knowledge
            representation." A. Pfeffer, D. Koller, B. Milch, and
            K. Takusagawa, In Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference
            on Uncertainty in AI (UAI), Stockholm, Sweden, August 1999.
            
   Skills
          
          + Expertise in C++, C, Perl, Haskell, Unix (awk, grep, sed,
            sh), HTML
          + Technical experience in probabilistic inference, web search
            engines, datamining, databases (SQL, Oracle, PL/SQL, XML),
            distributed knowledge bases, machine vision, automated web
            content generation, 2D graphics (image transforms and
            manipulation), distributed computing, scientific and
            numerical computing, optimization, compilers and parsing.
          + Also experience in risk analysis, finance, game theory, firm
            behavior, international economics.
          + Familiar with Java, C++ Standard Template Library, Java
            Native Interface, Java Foundation Classes, Powerplant,
            MATLAB, CPLEX, NetPBM, Cascading Style Sheets.
            
   Honors
          National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
          recipient, 2000
          Member of Stanford ACM Computer Programming Contest World team,
          1999
          Member of Stanford ACM Computer Programming Contest team,1998
          
   Work Experience
          Research Associate, Dr. Daphne Koller, Stanford University
          1998-2000
          Kitchen Manager, Chi Theta Chi Cooperative Residence, Stanford
          University, 1999-2000.
          Unix Consultant, Stanford Distributed Computer Systems, 1997.
          
   Other Experience
          Software Maintainer of the Mozilla, GCC, Haskell, and Speech
          Tools software lockers for the MIT Student Information
          Processing Board (SIPB)
          President, MIT Lindy Hop Society, 2002-current.
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