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kwan_at_media.mit.edu http://www.media.mit.edu/~kwan

Education	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. MIT Media Lab, Viral Communications (http://viralcomm.media.mit.edu) Ph.D. Candidate in Media Arts and Sciences, Sep 2004 - Present Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. MIT Media Lab, Speech Interface Group (http://www.media.mit.edu/speech/) Master of Science in Media Arts and Sciences, Sep 1999 - Sep 2001 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Cornell Network Research Group Bachelor of Science and Master of Engineering in Computer Science, Aug 1994 - Aug 1998 Colegio Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lima, Peru U.S. High School Diploma, Jun 1994
Experience	MIT Media Lab Research Assistant in Viral Communications Cambridge, MA Sep 2004 - Present * Played foundational role in initiating the relationship between Bank of America and the Media Lab that resulted in the Center for Future Banking. Actively engaged in various industrial partnerships with Samsung, Intuit, Bank of America. Samsung Fellow 2005, ITRI Fellow 2006, Bank of America Fellow 2008. Worked with team of two to five undergraduate students in various systems below and mentored 5 senior thesis projects. * Social Saver: influence of social networks in mobile commerce * Open Transaction Network: research on mobile social commerce http://fcn.media.mit.edu/ * Fluid Voice: multi-party ad-hoc mobile communications http://fluidvoice.media.mit.edu/ Intuit Product Manager Mountain View, CA Jun 2009 - Aug 2009 Worked in the Intuit Payment Solutions. Managed three products from conception, requirements, prototyping and development. Products were in the space of social network and payments, data as asset and digital receipts. Coordinated people from different business units to building a common data analysis platform. Bank of America Quantitative Research Associate Charlotte, NC Jun 2008 - Aug 2008 Worked in the Credit Card Services. Research on transactions and social networks. Business development for social recommendations around credit card, mobile and payments.	Jun 2007 - Aug 2007

Directed the design of knowledge, event, data sharing portal for quantitative analysts across the enterprise. Prototyped the portal and social network visualizations. Currently it is being used by over 1000 people at the bank.

Middle East Education Through Technology (MEET)	Instructor
Jerusalem, Israel	Jun 2005 - Aug 2005

Taught Java programming to 18 students. Mentored the MEET-Jerusalem project, user contribution site for geo tagging and tourism, guiding 6 students in the development of prototype and writing of the business plan.

Reakosys Inc.	Consultant
Seoul, Korea	Feb 2004 - Aug 2004

Prototyped various Bluetooth applications for local multi user game. Researched business opportunities in the Southeast Asian market. Voice applications integration with Daum services. Location based photo mapping system.

Bose Corporation	Research Software Engineer
Framingham, MA	Sep 2001 - Sep 2003

Developed a UI prototyping toolkit for designing and testing state machines for user interfaces, enabling rapid prototyping, testing, user evaluation and auto generation of documentation of the user interfaces. The toolkit was utilized to decide upon the functionality of the touch sensitive button interface for the next generation Wave Radio/CDs. Developed tools to merge different metadata databases for networked on demand music system. Implemented audio level matching algorithm for mp3's in C using proprietary audio libraries. Developed two way remote control software in Python for hard drive based music system. Deployed on an iPaq running Linux over 802.11b. Procured and deployed home evaluation units for hard drive based smart music system.

MIT Media Lab	Research Assistant in Speech Interface Group
Cambridge, MA	Sep 1999 - Sep 2001

Designed and developed framework for real time, non real time, awareness, telephony, speech recognition and text to speech audio applications and services for mobile devices. Researched on audio interfaces for handling multiple audio applications on hand held devices. Managed three undergraduate research students. % See http://www.media.mit.edu/speech/projects/impromptu/

GTE (now merged with Verizon)	System Engineer
Dallas, TX	Sep 1998 - Sep 1999

Developed Java servlets and web front end for customer service representatives to support Internet billing. Developed database interfaces for the Internet Billing Project. Interfaced with clients for requirements gathering. Participated in the effort to bring the organization to CMM Level 2.

Cornell Network Research Group	Research Assistant
Ithaca, NY	Dec 1997 - Aug 1998

Developed Internet voice messaging system using Java Telephony API and Lucent PBX. Voice messages were made accessible via e-mail. Developed telephone network simulator on Unix.

Samsung SDS	Samsung Global Internship Program
Seoul, Korea	Jun 1997 - Aug 1997

Worked in Samsung SDS Wireless Communication group. Developed Windows application for mapping signal strengths for base stations by interfacing with GPS and signal receivers.

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