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Sal Galarza

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About

About Me

ORIE, Applied Mathematician, Developer, Entrepeneuer

Founder of Nevosense: Colorlib Template

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  • Name: Salvador Galarza
  • Email: chasalv@gmail.com
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Education

Cornell Tech Logo

MENg Operations Research and Information Engineering

August 2021 – Present

Cornell Tech

Class of 2022

Scholarship

Cornell University

Lester B. Knight Scholarship and Merit Scholarship.

SUNY Geneseo Logo

Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics

August 2017 – May 2022

SUNY Geneseo

Class of 2021

Geneseo Entrepreneurship Program + Hobart and William Smith's Summer Sandbox Startup Accelerator

Jan 2020 – Present

SUNY Geneseo

Lead my team to the creation of a startup through all aspects of a company including a variety of skills in areas such as business model creation, customer relations, financials, strategy, timeline and goals, product development, conflict solutions, overall daily operations and pitching the teams ideas.

President of Programming and Data Science Club

May 2018 - Present

SUNY Geneseo

Managing administrative activities of the club. Leading and coaching club members in weekly meetings on various projects using Python, HTML, MATLAB, JavaScript, and more.

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

August 2018 - January 2019

SUNY Geneseo

Taught class and administered quizzes in professor’s absence, held office hours and review sessions, and graded homework assignments, labs, and quizzes. Math 230 Programming And Math Problem Solving

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MicroMasters Program In Statistics And Data Science

May 2019 - In Progress

MITx

  1. Probability - The Science of Uncertainty and Data. Certificate

  2. Data Analysis in Social Science—Assessing Your Knowledge.

  3. Fundamentals of Statistics.

  4. Machine Learning with Python: from Linear Models to Deep Learning.

  5. Capstone Exam in Statistics and Data Science.

Research

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Classifying ASL Images Using Convolutional Neural Networks

January 2020 – May 2020

Department of Mathematics

Used Python to classify American Sign Language Images using a Convolutional Neural Network.

Spring

Directed Study Differential Equation Animator

December 2018 – May 2020

Department of Mathematics

Animating The Model Of Harmonic Motion Using Html5, CSS, And JavaScript. Lead the development of an application used by professors and students to teach/learn differential equations at SUNY Geneseo.

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JPEG2000 Compression Standard Lossless

January 2019 to May 2019

Department of Mathematics

Built the algorithms to compress an image using the JPEG2000 LeGall wavelet transform. Compared efficiency of the LeGall transform to Haar Wavelet transforms, and Daubechies (4 ,6) transforms.

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Nonlinear Dynamics of the Heart

February 2019

Department of Mathematics

February 2019 Mathematics research weekend run by Dr. Elizabeth Cherry from Rochester Institute of Technology

Experience

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Startup Founder

Jan 2020 - August 2020

Department of Mathematics

I oversaw all startup operations and finances. Completed the 2020 Hobart and William Smith's Summer Sandbox Startup Accelerator program which involved customer discovery, market research and segmentation, pitch deck creation and pitching, value proposition definition, and business plan creation using lean startup methods. Conducted market research consisting of over 70+ interviews with people who are blind, visually impaired, caregivers, and optometrists. I created the startup website as well as worked as the lead software architect/developer of Nevosense.

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Mobile Developer

December 2019 - January 2020

SalTech

I designed, developed, and published my first app on Google Play for Android devices. I also made the application for iOS but did not publish on the app store. The application functionality includes taking or uploading a picture to be classified using Machine Learning and find poems based on the picture you took. I also created a web application that utilizes some APIs to work in conjunction with my mobile application. The entire application code is hosted on the cloud.

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Mobile Developer

December 2019 - January 2020

SalTech

I designed, developed, and published my second app on Google Play. This application is a game. I also made the application for iOS but did not publish on app store. I made the application using unity and c#.

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Lead Programmer

October 5-6, 2019

HackUpstate, Syracuse, NY

I built an app which helps visually impaired people identify events on posters using computer vision, and verbally add then to their Google Calendar. I utilized various Google Cloud services to detect text on posters and convert them to speech as well as to create my own mini Voice Assistant to schedule the events extracted from the poster using the Google Calendar API.

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Lead Programmer

September 20-22, 2019

Big Red/Hacks Fall 2019 Cornell University, Ithaca, Ny

Hackathon hosted at Cornell University in which my project won a Best use of Google Cloud by Google award. I built an app which helps visually impaired people travers a building in search of a specific room. My project utilized various Google Cloud services to detect room numbers in a hallway and convert them to speech.

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Volunteer Data Researcher

July 2019 - September 2019

United Nations Department Of Economic And Social Affairs

Contributed in collecting e-government data to be included in the UN E-Government Survey 2020

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Data Analyst

March 29-31, 2019

American Statistical Association (Asa) School Of Mathematical Sciences, Rochester Institute Of Technology

Data Science competition hosted at Rochester Institute of Technology. A data set sponsored by an anonymous company was distributed and analyzed over the course of a weekend. My team and I mainly used Python/Pandas for our analysis.

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Back End Developer

April 6-7, 2019

Hackupstate, Syracuse, NY

I developed the server-side code for my teams application and utilized a sponsoring company’s API. The program I built using Python/Flask contributed to our applications success at the competition.

Skills

Programming Languages

Python

MATLAB

R

HTML

CSS

SQL

JavaScript

C#

Dart

Soft

Leadership

Data Analysis

Entrepreneurship

Self-motivation

Communication

Adaptability

Awards

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New York State Business Plan Finalist

New York State Business Plan Competition (NYBPC)

Summer 2020

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Best use of Google Cloud by Google

Cornell University Big Red/Hacks

Fall 2019

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ASA Data Fest Second Place

Rochester Institute of Technology

Spring 2019

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First Place Best use of STAE API

HackUpstate Hackathon

Spring 2019

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Second Place Overall

HackUpstate Hackathon

Spring 2019

Projects

Projects

Checkout some of my works

Classifying ASL Images Using Convolutional Neural

Used Python to classify American Sign Language Images using a Convolutional Neural Network.

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Differential Equation Animator

Animating The Model Of Harmonic Motion Using Html5, CSS, And JavaScript. Lead the development of an application used by professors and students to teach/learn differential equations at SUNY Geneseo.

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Poem Vision

I designed, developed, and published my first app on Google Play for Android devices. I also made the application for iOS but did not publish on the app store. The application functionality includes taking or uploading a picture to be classified using Machine Learning and find poems based on the picture you took. I also created a web application that utilizes some APIs to work in conjunction with my mobile application. The entire application code is hosted on the cloud.

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DuckDuck

I designed, developed, and published my second app on Google Play. This application is a game. I also made the application for iOS but did not publish on app store. I made the application using unity and c#.

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Event Vision

I built an app which helps visually impaired people identify events on posters using computer vision, and verbally add then to their Google Calendar. I utilized various Google Cloud services to detect text on posters and convert them to speech as well as to create my own mini Voice Assistant to schedule the events extracted from the poster using the Google Calendar API.

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RoomVision

Hackathon hosted at Cornell University in which my project won a Best use of Google Cloud by Google award. I built an app which helps visually impaired people travers a building in search of a specific room. My project utilized various Google Cloud services to detect room numbers in a hallway and convert them to speech.

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E-Government Survey 2020

Contributed in collecting e-government data to be included in the UN E-Government Survey 2020

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Snake Game

Welcome to Snake!

Try to beat my high score :)

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Name Score
Sal 32
Maria 12

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Contact

Contact Me

What's Up Programming Club

Contact Number

+1 (513)609-9408

Email Address

chasalv@gmail.com

Website

salgalarza.com

Thank you!