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Education

Electrical and Computering Engineering, PhD. Advisor: Dr. Maryam Shanechi. University of Southern California, Los Angeles. 2026 (expected).
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, BS. University of California, Berkeley. 2016.

Experience

Graduate Research Assistant, Shanechi Lab, University of Southern California. (August 2020-Present)
Software Engineer, Daydream (September 2016-August 2019.), Wearables (August 2019-July 2020), Google.
  • Developed software for virtual reality controllers.
  • Implemented a machine learning model for real-time occlusion detection of 6DOF optical controllers.
  • Experimented with distortion correction algorithms for 6DOF controllers, using Vicon measurements as ground-truth
  • Worked on system-level integration for 6DOF controllers into the Daydream Android platform application, including designing and implementing an SDK for a controller driver.
  • Developed python tools for collecting controller data, and for visualizing and quantifying overall controller performance.
  • Implemented firmware for consumer electronics.
Research Assistant, Gallant Lab, UC Berkeley. (January 2015-July 2016)
  • Developed Python code to extract the time-series of several acoustic, timbral, and rhythmic features from sound files.
  • Created voxel-wise encoding models to explore the representation of low- level musical features.
  • Used voxel-wise encoding models to resolve tonotopic maps in primary auditory cortex.
Research Intern, Smith Lab, University of Pittsburgh. (June 2014-August 2014)
  • Conducted a psychophysics experiment using eye-tracking to determine how the latency period for visual information delivery, when delivered after a subject has been instructed to make a visual decision, influences decision accuracy.

Skills

Python/Scientific Python (6+ yrs experience)

C++ (2.5 yrs experience)

Java (2 yrs experience)

MATLAB/Simulink (3.5 yrs experience)

Languages

English | Armenian