Dominic Jonak
dom@cmu.edu
www.andrew.cmu.edu/~djj
Education:
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, 2003
Phi Beta Kappa, College Honors, University Honors
Professional
Experience:
Research Programmer; Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute, Field Robotics Center
Pittsburgh, PA
Fall 2003 - current
  • Projects include Life in the Atacama (LITA),
    Life on Ice; Robotic Antarctic Explorer (LORAX),
    Deep Phreatic Thermal Explorer (DEPTHX)
    and Science Autonomy/Science on the Fly
  • Executive and health monitoring functionality in systems
    with over 20 software modules
  • Refinements to navigation resulting in reliable multi-km traverses
  • Remote operations; plan generation and data analysis
  • Field operations; end-to-end plan execution and data uplink
Research Assistant; Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute, Field Robotics Center
Pittsburgh, PA
Spring 2003 - Fall 2003
  • Analyzed rover performance under various metrics
  • Developed a customizable parser for binary logs
  • Wrote middleware for testing networking code
IT Specialist; University of Virginia
Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics
Charlottesville, VA
Summer 2001
  • Developed software for a scientific data analysis package
  • Worked with heterogeneous, unix-based workstations
Teaching
Experience:
Carnegie Mellon University
20-770 "Networking and Communications"
15-200 "Data Structures"
15-251 "Great Theoretical Ideas of CS"
Pittsburgh, PA
Spring 2003
Fall of 2000, 2001, 2002
Spring 2001
Student Tutor, Computer Science Department
Fall 2000 - Spring 2003
Academic
Projects:
Senior Thesis in Pervasive Computing
Fall 2002 - Spring 2003
  • Studied user privacy vs. system effectiveness
  • Developed data-driven web site using Apache and MySQL
Video Game Programming
Fall 2002
  • Developed Wobble! a networked multiplayer game
  • Voted "Best Overall Game" from over 20 entries
Skills:
Programming:  C, C++, Java, shell scripts, Berkley Sockets, matlab, openGL
Development:  Linux, emacs, valgrind, gdb and other GNU utilities
Web: HTML, javascript, CSS, HTTP
Languages: Basic French, Conversant in Polish