Carmela Acevedo

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Creating innovative user interfaces.
Education
University of Konstanz
October 2014 - October 2016
Konstanz, Germany
MSc Information Engineering - Human Computer Interaction
Jacobs University Bremen
September 2011 - June 2014
Bremen, Germany
BSc Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
August 2013 - December 2013
Pittsburgh, USA
Exchange Semester (Dean's List)
Skills
Expert in web development, includes
JavaScript ES6
HTML5
CSS3
Frameworks: Django, React
Human Computer Interaction
User studies conduction
Designing A/B experiments
Data analysis
High and low fidelity prototyping
Other
Databases
Java
Version control
Bash
Languages
English (fluent)
Spanish (fluent)
German (working proficiency)
Portuguese (intermediate)
Honours and Awards
Merit-Based Scholarship for tuition and semester abroad.
2011 - 2014
Scholarship from Jacobs University Bremen.
Dean's List
Fall 2013
Carnegie Mellon University
CodeF 2012
2012 - 2013
Participant of Google's mentoring programme for female computer scientists.
Honourable Mentions
2007 - 2010
International Mathematical Olympiads
Professional Experience
Google
November 2016 - Present
Software Engineer
Facebook
August 2015 - November 2015
Software Engineer Intern
Front End Software Engineer Intern: Created and collaborated on designing interactive and portable components on PHP (Hack), Javascript (React), HTML5 and CSS3.
Google
June 2014 - October 2014
Software Engineer Intern
Implemented from beginning to end a new frontend feature. This involved creating the user interface, creating and using a new backend and connecting them.
Mevis Fraunhofer
November 2012 - June 2014
Software developer
Developed modules for the Object Based Image Analysis (OBIA) framework in C++ using SQLite resources. Researched automatic classification of salient boundaries in object-based image segmentation.
ResearchGate
June 2012 - September 2012
Software developing intern
Refactored and implemented parsers for reference compilation files such as BibTeX. Developed back-end and front-end self-contained components in PHP, JavaScript, and HTML5 using non relational databases.
Publications
Studying the benefits and challenges of spatial distribution and physical affordances in a multi-device workspace
2017
J. Zagermann, U. Pfeil, C. Acevedo, H. Reiterer
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
ConToVi: Multi-party conversation exploration using topic-space views
2016
M. El-Assady, V. Gold, C. Acevedo, C. Collins, D. Keim
Computer Graphics Forum 35 (3), 431-440
OpenMathMap: Interaction
July 2014
C. Acevedo, M. Kohlhase
Assess a platform that allows to build interactions with semantical meta-data based on OMM and show a variety of information services taking advantage of the semantic and hierarchical of the dataset at hand.
Automatic classification of salient boundaries in object-based image segmentation
March 2014
C. Acevedo, T. Chitiboi, L. Linsen, H. Hahn
Supervised classification approach for image segmentation that operates in an object-based image representation and combines object features with boundary features.