# Selam Brook

> Computer Science | AI and Decision Making @ MIT

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/selambrook

## Work Experience
### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024
- Developed a dynamic notification banner using React, fetching notifications from an API and displaying them on any React-based web page, improving user engagement and alert visibility.
- Designed and implemented a RESTful API using Node.js and AWS, enabling the program team to create, store, and manage notifications for customers, streamlining the notification management process.
- Integrated the notification banner into the organization's unified UI, supporting dynamic data fetching from the API, which enhanced system scalability and improved the team's efficiency in managing real-time customer alerts.

### Undergraduate Researcher @ MIT Media Lab
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Investigated attentional engagement in visual memory tasks using Brain-Computer Interfaces, integrating eye movement and visual card game tasks to study cognitive enhancement, leveraging electrooculogram (EOG) and electroencephalogram (EEG) signals for non-verbal communication analysis.
- Developed a machine-learning application for gaze detection, utilizing EOG and EEG signals in a camera-free, privacy-preserving wearable device (AttentivU).
- Co-author an IEEE conference paper focusing on signal processing and human interaction through digital health technologies.

### Director of Corporate Relations and Consulting @ MITech Consulting Club
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Automated the hiring process at Speechify by developing a web scraping tool.
- Organized 20+ corporate engagements, creating opportunities for student involvement in real-world consulting projects.

### Undergraduate Researcher @ MIT Department of Biology
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Created an image analysis pipeline utilizing computer vision and MATLAB to identify defects in actin cytoskeleton development in Bitesize mutant embryos, improving detection rates by 60%.

### Instructor @ Brighter Generation
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Co-designed a 4-week Python programming curriculum aimed at Ethiopian high school students with limited programming experience.
- Instructed 40 students through hands-on projects addressing community challenges, culminating in a capstone project.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science: AI and Decision Making
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### Associates Degree in Biomedical Engineering
Bunker Hill Community College

### Biomedical/Medical Engineering
Bunker Hill CC

### Bachelor of Science in Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making
Massachusetts Institute of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/selambrook

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Last updated: 2026-03-28