Lindsey Kuper

Lindsey Kuper

Rock Star in Training

Bloomington, Indiana Area

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  • Indiana University Bloomington
  • Grinnell College
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Lindsey Kuper’s Summary

"The four-color-map theorem must have been a mistranslated demonstration that no pop song ever requires more than four tracks to record."
-- glenn mcdonald, The War Against Silence #213

Lindsey Kuper’s Specialties:

Being a generalist


Lindsey Kuper’s Experience

  • Computer Science Ph.D. Student

    Indiana University Bloomington

    (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

    2008Present (1 year )

    I'm a computer science Ph.D. student in my second year of graduate study at Indiana University. My research interests include programming languages and compilers. During summer 2009, I researched improvements to miniKanren, a logic programming system implemented in Scheme. I'm also the associate instructor for two programming languages courses under the direction of Daniel P. Friedman.

  • Software Developer

    Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group

    (Privately Held; Publishing industry)

    July 2006June 2008 (2 years )

    Began as a contractor and was promoted to a staff position within six months. With a small team, designed, implemented, and maintained a build system and set of tools for generating online books from heterogeneous XML sources (in object-oriented Perl using the Class::Std system). Wrote the documentation for the build system (20,000 words in wiki format), trained the rest of the development team in its use, and migrated the code to Subversion.

  • Web Designer/Developer

    IBCTV

    (Privately Held; Online Media industry)

    August 2004June 2006 (1 year 11 months)

    Designed and developed portions of a hosted website analytics application built on a custom MVC framework implemented in PHP and MySQL. Led the web-standards-compliant overhaul of the application, including writing all CSS. Prototyped, implemented and tested 40+ standards-compliant XHTML/CSS websites for clients and two major redesigns for the company's corporate website.

  • Instructor, Digital Music Editing

    iD Tech Camps

    (Privately Held; Education Management industry)

    June 2003August 2004 (1 year 3 months)

    The first instructor to teach the Digital Music Editing course at iD Tech, a technology summer camp program held at universities nationwide. Designed and taught customized weekly curricula on digital audio production. Diagnosed and solved troubleshooting issues with digital audio and MIDI hardware and software. Received special commendation from the company's VP of Camp Operations for frequently assisting other instructors on the internal mailing list.


Lindsey Kuper’s Education

  • Indiana University Bloomington

    Ph.D. , Computer Science , 20082013 (expected)

    Graduate Women in Science Fellowship recipient, 2008-present. Associate Instructor, Programming Languages. GPA: 3.823 to date.

    Activities and Societies:
    Contemporary Vocal Ensemble (Indiana University Jacobs School of Music), 2009-present. University Chorale (Indiana University Jacobs School of Music), 2008-2009.
  • Grinnell College

    B.A. , double major in Computer Science and Music (with honors) , 20002004

    GPA: 3.52. Dean's List, 2001.

    Activities and Societies:
    Grinnell Singers, 2000-2004.

Additional Information

Lindsey Kuper’s Interests:

* Finishing participant, Indianapolis Monumental Marathon, 2009; ING Georgia Marathon, 2008; San Juan Island Marathon, 2006; Chicago Lakeshore Marathon, 2004 and 2005. * ICFP Programming Contest participant, 2008 and 2009. * A variety of GPL'd programming projects, 2008 - present. (http://narorumo.googlecode.com)

Lindsey Kuper’s Groups:

  •    Code 'n' Splode
  •    Grinnell College Alumni
  •    IU School of Informatics and Computing
  •    OSCON 09 - Open Source Convention

Lindsey Kuper’s Honors:

* Invited participant, CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop, March 2009.
* Invited participant, Google Workshop for Women Engineers, January 2009.
* Graduate Women in Science Fellowship recipient, Indiana University, 2008-present.
* Grinnell College Dean's List, 2001.
* National Merit Scholar, 2000.


Lindsey Kuper’s Contact Settings

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