15-719/18-709 Advanced Cloud Computing (Spring 2021)

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15719/

• Reduced operational burden and streamlined group whitelisting process in Amazon Honeycode by implementing REST APIs in Java that allow team admins to view, add & remove groups.

• Optimized group data storage for scalability by designing and creating a new DynamoDB table with CloudFormation.

• Designed data and API migration strategy with no down-time, and implemented an AWS Lambda function triggered by DynamoDB Streams events to guarantee group metadata consistency during migration.

• Conducted a case study on MOOCs that assesses learner forum engagement as it related to course content.

• Designed new engagement metrics for Teach-Outs to support assessment and iteration

• Inspected, cleaned, and analyzed unstructured data from various sources in order to create data visualizations to help non-technical audiences gain insight necessary for course design and iteration

• Analyzed that the course design goal has be achieved by Investigating discussion forum opinion trend with LDA topic analysis and evaluating its relevance to lecture contents by LSA.

• Published a short paper "Exploring Learner Engagement Patterns in Teach-Outs" in LAK19 as first author.