Andrew Ash just finished his third year at the Georgia Institute of Technology, studying Computer Science. Looking at entering the field of security research, Andrew is pursuing the Information Internetworking, Theory, Platforms, and Intelligence threads to fulfill his major requirements. List of courses taken available.
From delving into the internals of the Game Boy Advance to writing an implementation of malloc and free, he is passionate about all aspects of computer science. Fascinated by the bombshell of an Adobe Flash Exploit by Mark Dowd and intrigued by the classic Fast Inverse Square Root found in Quake, Andrew enjoys reading the best of computer scientists around the world.
He has also worked in the teaching and research sides of academia, and has also spent every summer working in industry. A passion of his is to help train this upcoming generation of computer scientists, and Andrew has done that by working as a Teaching Assistant for Georgia Tech’s CS 1331 class for five semesters and being a mentor the Freshman class of 2010.
In undergraduate research, he has been involved with the Indian CBR Group at the GT Center for Music Technology, working on the classic music-discovery problem. Suppose someone hears a few songs from a new musical style, and want to hear more like it. By correlating songs and producing measures that can say “If you like A, you’ll also like B”, the project aims to provide a customizable streaming radio station while also pushing the research envelope in CBR. Can the current crop of recommendation systems be improved by utilizing features of a specific domain of music? Find out more in Projects.
In his spare time, Andrew relaxes by playing piano and spending time with family. He shares a love of wanderlust photography with his father, everything computer with his younger brother Aaron, and all things nerdy with his friends at Georgia Tech.