Contact details
- Hunan Rostomyan
- hunan131@gmail.com
- (818) 850 - 9208
- 13036 Sherman way #405, N Hollywood, CA 91605
Online presence
Education
Work experience
- software engineer
- 2018 – Chegg, Inc., San Francisco, CA
- 2014 – 2018 WriteLab, Inc., Berkeley, CA
- 2009 – 2012 Lisn.in, Berkeley, CA
- 2008 – 2011 Gradenotes.net, North Hollywood, CA
- 2008 – 2009 Brenner Computational Biology Lab, Berkeley CA
- web developer
- 2007 – 2008 Samvel Jewelry Design Studio, La Crecenta, CA
- 2007 – 2008 Caucasian Shepherd Club, North Hollywood, CA
- 2006 – 2007 Dr. Sean Ramsey, U.S. Grant H.S., Los Angeles, CA
- computer technician
- 2004 – 2006 LA Unified School District, Valley Glen, CA
Awards
Areas of Interest
- philosophy
- Pure & Applied Logic
- History & Philosophy of Mathematics
- History of Early Analytic Philosophy (esp. Carnap)
- Formal Semantics of Natural Languages
- Formal Epistemology (esp. using epistemic logic)
- Analytical Metaphysics (esp. time, modality, causation)
- History of Logic (esp. Aristotle, Peirce)
- mathematics
- Set / Type / Model / Proof / Computability Theory
- Algebra & Category Theory
- Constructive & Inductive Logic
- Probability & Information Theory
- informatics
- Formal Semantics of Programming Languages
- Theory of Programming Languages
- Functional Programming
- linguistics
- Formal Semantics & Pragmatics of Natural Languages
- Formal Language Theory
- Natural Language Processing
- Computational Linguistics
Service
- Tech Mentor, Stanford d.school, High School Hackathon (2016)
- Reviewer, Manning Publications, Amazon Web Services in Action (book proposal, 2015)
- Reviewer, Manning Publications, AWS in a Month of Lunches (book proposal, 2016)
- Webmaster, Harvest Moon Undergraduate Philosophy Journal (2013 – 2014)
- Organizer, Philosophy of Mathematics Reading Group (Spring 2013)
- Organizer, Rudolf Carnap Reading Group (Spring 2013)
- Editor, Harvest Moon Undergraduate Philosophy Journal (2012 – 2014)
- Officer, Berkeley Undergraduate Philosophy Forum (2012 – 2013)
Affiliations
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (since 2015)
- Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN) (since 2015)
- Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) (since 2016)
- ACM Council on Women in Computing (ACM-W) (since 2016)
- American Philosophical Association (APA) (2013 – 2015)
Publications
- 'McTaggart's Argument for the Unreality of Time' (Harvest Moon: NCP 2013)
Presentations
- Mar 15, 2019, Demo of Amazon SageMaker
- Aug 17, 2018, Introduction to Computer Viruses
- Aug 10, 2018, Introduction to Buffer Overflows
- July 28, 2018, Language Modeling
- July 6, 2018, Demo of Quilt('docker for data')
- Sep 16, 2016, Demo of Tensorflow
- Feb 12, 2016, Applying Statistical Machine Translation to The Problem of Revision
- Feb 27, 2015, Software Reliability: Testing & Code Review
- Apr 3, 2013, The Scientific Conception of the World
- Mar 11, 2013, Carnap's Methodology of Explication
- Feb 27, 2013, Why Russell's Response to McTaggart's Argument Fails
- Nov 16, 2012, Fitch's Paradox and Ceteris Paribus Modalities
- Sep 26, 2012, Carnap on Questions of Existence
Coursework
- logic
- Introduction to Logic
- Intermediate Logic
- Philosophical Logic
- Modal Logic
- meaning / semantics
- Form & Meaning
- Logical Semantics
- Theory of Meaning
- mathematics / science
- Philosophy of Mathematics
- Philosophy of Science
- graduate seminars
- Epistemic Logic & Epistemology
- Judgment, Competence, & 'Practical Knowledge'
- Logic, Epistemology, & Natural Language
- independent studies
- Logical Positivism
- Quine's Word & Object
- Wittgenstein's Tractatus
- coursera
- Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
- ucla
- λ-Calculus & Type Theory
Language skills
- natural
- native: English, Russian, Armenian
- programming (selection)
- current: Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
- past: C, Java, Golang, Scheme, PHP 5
- frameworks/tools (selection)
- machine learning: PyTorch, Tensorflow
- nlp: SpaCy, NLTK
- web frontend: React, Backbone, jQuery, Bootstrap, Sass
- web backend: Flask, Django
- devops: AWS, GCP