Jason Rennie

                              jr6b@andrew.cmu.edu
                          http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jr6b/

School Address                                                Permanent Address

5601 Wilkins Ave #2                                             119 Josephs Way
Pittsburgh, PA 15217                                          Malvern, PA 19355
H: (412) 421-4427                                                (610) 647-6759
W: (412) 683-7104

Objective     To obtain a programming or software design position where
              employee interaction is encouraged.

Education     Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

              B.S. Computer Science, double major in Mathematics, May 1999
              Overall GPA: 3.89/4.00    Major GPA: 4.00/4.00

Relevant      Artificial Intelligence    Machine Learning
Coursework    Algorithms                 Compiler Design
              Operating Systems          Computer Architechture
              Computer Engineering       Senior Thesis

Experience    Just Research, Assistant Researcher                  6/98 - 12/98

              - Worked with 3 others in design and implementation of research
                paper search engine
              - Created World Wide Web interface to using Perl CGI scripts
              - Developed spider to collect over 20,000 research papers
              - Researched methods to efficiently gather web documents related
                to a particular topic

              Carnegie Mellon University, Independent Research      1/98 - 5/98

              - Realized need for a program to automatically classify e-mail
                based on user preferences
              - Created C and Perl code to filter mail using EXMH mail system
              - Released mail filter to public; generated user base of 30
              - Ran experiments with users to test effectiveness of system
              - Analyzed results and explained design of system in 11 page
                research paper

              Lycos Corporation, Assistant Research Scientist       6/97 - 8/97

              - Wrote C/C++ code to extract and analyze information stored in
                an SQL database
              - Used techniques such as linear regression and exponential decay
                to model user data
              - Evaluated various methods for classifying web and newsgroup
                documents

              Carnegie Mellon University, Coursework Design         6/96 - 8/96

              - Designed homework assignments for graduate-level course
              - Coordinated efforts with a professor and one other student
              - Wrote C/C++ code to implement fundamental Machine Learning
                techniques

Publications  Rennie, Jason.  1998.  ifile: An Application of Machine Learning
              to Mail Filtering.  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jr6b/papers/ifile98.ps

              Andrew McCallum, Kamal Nigam, Jason Rennie and Kristie Seymore.
              1999.  Building Domain-Specific Search Engines with Machine
              Learning Techniques.  AAAI-99 Spring Symposium.

              Jason Rennie and Andrew McCallum.  Using Reinforcement Learning
              to Spider the Web Efficiently.  Submitted to the Sixteenth
              International Conference on Machine Learning (1999). 

Computer      Languages: C, Perl, C++, HTML, Java, ML, Pascal, Assembly
Skills        Operating Systems: Linux, Unix, WinNT, Win95/98, MacOS
              Strong Knowledge of C, Perl languages

Activities    President of Carnegie Mellon Fencing Club for 2 years
              Head organizer of 2 fencing tournaments held at Carnegie Mellon
              Co-foudner of Carnegie Mellon Table Tennis Club