Nicole Meister nmeister@princeton.

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nicolemeister.weebly.com 443-895-6580

Education
Princeton University: Electrical Engineering – Data & Information GPA: 3.4/4.0 P
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Coursework: Advanced Programming, Algorithms and Data Structures, Programming Systems, Circuit Design, Probability
Science Olympiad Co-Director: Managed 30 person team, $16k budget, 140 volunteers, 800 participants
Women in CS Web Developer: Developed new website, increased club engagement with weekly newsletters
Sympoh (Breakdance), Ultimate Frisbee, Freshman Orientation Leader (150+ training hours)

Experience
Max Planck Institute for Collective Behaviour Konstanz, Germany
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Intern Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
◦ Developed python-based toolkit to classify tactile interactions from a video of locusts. Analyzed data to support
experiments describing cannibalistic nature of locusts. Increased speed of locust interaction classification by 4x
Johns Hopkins University – Applied Physics Lab (APL) Laurel, MD
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Intern Jun 2016 - Sept 2018
◦ 2018: Precision Medicine: Predicted prognosis of Multiple Sclerosis patients (predicted walk time within 1 sec)
Used k-means and tSNE to cluster similar patients and provide specialized treatment to racial and age groups.
∗ 2019: Presented in America’s leading MS Conference (ACTRIMS)
∗ 2018: Presented to APL Director, Ralph Semmel, in group’s Quarterly Presentation
◦ 2016: Arduino Robots: Implemented collision avoidance. Performed rigorous sonar sensor testing.
Implemented finite state machine model for robots. Experimented with ROS to visualize robot position.
Stony Brook University / Brookhaven National Lab Stony Brook, NY
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Simons Research Program Fellow (12% acceptance rate) Summer of 2017
◦ Studied effects of noise injection on neural network to improve X-ray Scattering Image analysis by 10%
◦ Presentation: 2017 New York Scientific Data Summit, Simons Program Poster Symposium
◦ Publication: Meister et al., ”Robust and Scalable Deep Learning for X-ray Image Analysis” IEEE NYSDS, 2017
◦ Awards: Intel International Science Fair Qualifier, 1st Baltimore Sci. Fair, National JSHS (Sci. Symposium)
Optimizing and Modeling Solar Energy Ellicott City, MD
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Independent Research Project 2014-2017
◦ Research: Created a mathematical model with Java to simulate annual solar energy and experimented with 10
different angled solar panels to determine the optimum solar panel tilt angle to increase energy from solar cells
◦ Awards: 1st: Geological Society of Washington, Outstanding Engineer Award (Society of Women Engineers),
Outstanding Achievement US Naval Science Award, Mid-Atlantic Engineering Grant
◦ Publication: Modeling Solar Energy 2017: Journal of Emerging Investigators

Projects & Service

• 2020: Princeton Dance Schedule: Developed website to schedule and book dance studios for performing arts group.
Developed scheduling algorithm to replace 40 hours of administrative work. (Python, JS, Heroku, Django, SQL)
• 2019: SyncMe: Calculated synchronicity of user-uploaded dance photos from position vectors (Python, JS, Flask)
• 2018: Sentimental Analysis: Performed sentiment analysis on web-scraped text from popular Princeton Q&A blog
(Python, Pandas, Numpy, Google API), created notification system for blog (StdLib)
• 2018: The Bachelorette Data Analysis: Predicted TV show winner based on Age, Height (Python,Sklearn,Numpy)
• 2018: Coding Class: Taught 20 middle school girls how to build apps in weekly class (MIT App Inventor)
• 2016: Petfinder: Pet finding app for lost pet owners to check recent local pet sightings
• 2016: Tree Data Recorder: Record tree data, upload data to Google Sheets, plot data to locate trends onsite
Awards
• 2019: NY Tiger Trek: Selected as one of top 20 Princeton students to meet with CEOs of NY’s leading companies
• 2018: HackPrinceton Finalist for Best Machine Learning Hack: Sentiment analysis on Princeton Q&A blog
• 2017: NCWIT Aspirations in Computing National Award: 1.4% acceptance for exceptional work in computing
Skills
Python (Sklearn, Pandas, Numpy, Widgets), SQL, Linux, C/C++, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Soldering, Java