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Jacob Nishimura


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About Me

I'm a Senior at the University of Iowa studying Electrical & Computer Engineering and Music. I'm interested in software engineering, signal & image processing, and applying machine learning to real-world problems. I currently do research at the Holo Reality Lab under the guidance of Professor Tyler Bell. In my free time, I enjoy performing with the Iowa Saxophonist's Workshop , playing basketball, badminton, and table tennis, and learning about photography.

Experience

Amazon

Software Development Engineer Intern

Amazon

Software Development Engineer Intern

  • Designed and implemented Java service to retrieve popular products to display to sports fans
  • Began A/B testing to determine service's impact on customer behavior
  • Collaborated with UX designer to optimize visual appeal of service

Holo Reality Lab

Research Assistant

  • Researching techniques on encoding and compressing 3D geometry using traditional and deep learning approaches.

University of Iowa

Teaching Assistant - ECE:2400 (Linear Systems I)

  • Taught weekly discussion sections covering the main ideas and example problems for Linear Systems
  • Received strong (median at least "Agree" on scale from "Strongly Disagree" to "Strongly Agree") on end-of-semester effectiveness evaluations

Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Research Assistant

  • Developed tools for medical clinics to store and report clinical information on clubfoot patients
  • Designed algorithms to generate treatment statistics on medical database with 100,000s of records

Education

University of Iowa

August 2020 - May 2021

Master of Science in Electrical & Computer Engineering

Pursuing Masters with Thesis supervised by Professor Tyler Bell.

University of Iowa

August 2016 - May 2020

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

Bachelor of Arts in Music

Projects

Large Scale Particle Image Velocimetry Device

Work-in-progress project for my team of 3 in Senior Design. We are creating a device that takes bursts of pictures of flowing water (i.e. streams or rivers) and uses those pictures to calculate flow velocity vectors in the stream. The device then uploads the data to a database used for presenting the data on a web interface.

Internet of Things Thermometer

Project created in a team of 3 for the first semester of Senior Design. Used a Raspberry Pi Zero W and several AWS services to record and transmit temperature data. The data can be shown on

Retinal Image Segmentation

Project in ECE:5480 Digital Image Processing. It takes an image of a retina scan, unwraps the image from rectangular to polar coordinates, performs Canny edge detection to generate a "cost" image, performs minimum-cost path traversal across the image, then wraps the image back into rectangular coordinates and draws the segmentations on top.

Skills