Alina Kanayinkal

Alina Kanayinkal

Alina Kanayinkal

EDUCATION:

University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN

September 2020 - Present

September 2020 - Present

Bachelor of Science: Computer Science

Graduation: May 2024

Graduation: May 2024

Minor: Applied Statistics

GPA: 3.92 / 4.0

GPA: 3.92 / 4.0

Honors:

  • Aquinas Honors Scholar Member (4 semesters)
  • UST Dean's List (4 semesters)

COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH INTERNSHIP:

June 2022 - August 2022 (10 weeks)

June 2022 - August 2022 (10 weeks)

SIP Intern, Seasonal Internship Program

  • Completed internship fully remote, was able to adapt to remote work while learning new technology and communicating with team members online
  • Learned new programming skills on the fly (ex. MPI, Terminal commands)
  • Attended seminars and meetings to learn good habits, different areas of research, and improving work ethic
  • Created workflow to create high quality visualizations for large scientific simulations

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Reader, Scribe, and Proctor, Disability Resources, UST

September 2021 - Present (10 months)

September 2021 - Present (10 months)

  • Communicated with faculty to send exam material and necessary texts for students with disabilities
  • Provided assistance to students by reading and scribing exam material, and enforced testing rules as proctor
  • Developed relationships among team members while working to ensure a fast and reliable service to students and faculty
  • Remediated multiple forms of text into PDFs to be accessed by an autoreader

November 2021 - Present (9 months)

November 2021 - Present (9 months)

  • Researched with Computer Science professor on large scale VR data visualization with a simulation of cancer cell transport
  • Created textures and materials for red blood cell and cancer cell models for simulation
  • Helped develop ODS viewer with WebXR and Babylon.js to interactively change view

SKILLS:

Technical:

  • Proficient in G Suite (Docs, Slides, Sheets) and Microsoft Office
  • Proficient in document remediation through Adobe Reader
  • Coding experience with Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, R, OpenGL, JavaScript, Linux, Bash, HTML, SQL, GLSL
  • Program experience with Blender, Babylon.js, SPSS, Visual Studio Code, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, RStudio, Github, GitLab, Minitab, JMP

Transferrable:

  • Research (both individual and collaborative)
  • Technical writing and presentation
  • Communcation between group members and mentors