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| − | Hi, my name is Brian Lin. I'm from Lake Zurich, Illinois (about an hour north of Chicago | + | Hi, my name is Brian Lin. I'm from Lake Zurich, Illinois (about an hour north of Chicago). I went to a pretty large public school called Adlai E. Stevenson high school which currently has a bit under 4,000 students! |
Currently a 1st year BME student here at Duke. Some interests include: | Currently a 1st year BME student here at Duke. Some interests include: | ||
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| − | * | + | * Playing guitar |
| − | * | + | * Learning how to speak Chinese (and then hopefully Korean, Cantonese, and Japanese) |
| − | * | + | * Cooking and baking things |
| − | * | + | * Ultimate frisbee |
| − | * | + | * Making bad League of Legends puns |
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== Grand Challenges == | == Grand Challenges == | ||
Revision as of 15:17, 14 September 2014
About Me!
Hi, my name is Brian Lin. I'm from Lake Zurich, Illinois (about an hour north of Chicago). I went to a pretty large public school called Adlai E. Stevenson high school which currently has a bit under 4,000 students!
Currently a 1st year BME student here at Duke. Some interests include:
- Going for night runs with my friend Austin
- Playing guitar
- Learning how to speak Chinese (and then hopefully Korean, Cantonese, and Japanese)
- Cooking and baking things
- Ultimate frisbee
- Making bad League of Legends puns
Grand Challenges
[1] Sherali Zeadally, Gregorio Martinez, Han-Chieh Chao, IEEE Computer Society, April 2013, accessed August 31 2014
MATLAB
Four Linked Tori [2]
I haven't had too much experience in the computer programming world, but with my few forays (including the LaTeX lab), I've really grown to appreciate organization, simplicity, and efficiency. When using R in the past and running T tests and other Stats tests across large matrices of data (such as histone methylation across the blood samples of 80 people), I'd often end up with up to a couple minutes of downtime waiting for the program to run. With that in mind, it's really interesting to see how MATLAB can create a complicated-looking graphic from such a simple program. Of course, this is very different from churning through large amounts of data, but it's impressive nonetheless.
