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## Stony Brook University [#stony-brook-university]

**B.S. Computer Science · Aug 2022 – May 2026 · Stony Brook, NY**

Undergraduate at the [College of Engineering & Applied Sciences](https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/ceas/). Cumulative GPA: 3.06 across 126 earned credits and 99 GPA units. Upper-division credit requirement met (39 / 39). Graduation dated May 2026.

Carried an Economics second major from Spring 2023 through Fall 2024 before consolidating back to a single CS major for the final three semesters.

Chosen partly for the CS department's research footing — Stony Brook CS ranks [#30 on CSRankings](https://csrankings.org/#/index?all\&us) overall and [Top 10 nationally in Computer Vision](https://www.cs.stonybrook.edu/about-us/News/stony-brooks-got-vision-computer-vision-group-ranked-top-10-nationally) — and partly because it's where [Bottom Line](https://www.bottomline.org/new-york/) sends its scholars.

## Bottom Line scholar [#bottom-line-scholar]

Bottom Line is not a Stony Brook program. It's a national nonprofit founded in Boston in 1997 that opened a New York office in 2011. It runs a six-year college-success cohort for low-income, first-generation students — one-on-one advising from senior year of high school through to degree conferral.

Per a 2021 [Institute of Education Sciences evaluation](https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/Docs/InterventionReports/WWC_IR_Bottom-Line_REPORT_508.pdf), students randomly offered Bottom Line advising are **23% more likely to earn a bachelor's degree within four years**, and the Success Program's six-year graduation rate is 70% ([Bottom Line](https://www.bottomline.org/success-program/)).

## Coursework [#coursework]

Every course below links to the [Stony Brook Undergraduate Bulletin](https://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/bulletin/current-fall24/courses/cse/) (Fall 2024) — expand any row for the official description, prerequisites, and SBC designations. Grades are as recorded in the Stony Brook Student Information System.

### Computer Science — major requirements [#computer-science--major-requirements]

<Course code="CSE 214" grade="B-" term="Fall 2022" note="First real CS course. The gateway." />

<Course code="CSE 215" grade="B" term="Spring 2023" />

<Course code="CSE 216" grade="B-" term="Spring 2023" />

<Course code="CSE 220" grade="C" term="Fall 2023" note="Assembly, C, pointers. Humbling." />

<Course code="CSE 303" grade="A" term="Fall 2024" note="Automata, Turing machines, undecidability." />

<Course code="CSE 310" grade="C" term="Spring 2025" />

<Course code="CSE 316" grade="B+" term="Fall 2024" />

<Course code="CSE 320" grade="B" term="Spring 2025" note="Retake. Passed." />

<Course code="CSE 373" grade="B-" term="Spring 2024" />

<Course code="CSE 416" grade="B" term="Fall 2025" />

### Computer Science — electives [#computer-science--electives]

<Course code="CSE 351" grade="A-" term="Spring 2025" />

<Course code="CSE 355" grade="C+" term="Fall 2025" note="Retake after F. Finished what I started." />

<Course code="CSE 371" grade="C" term="Fall 2025" />

### Security track · currently in progress [#security-track--currently-in-progress]

<Course code="CSE 331" grade="IP" term="Spring 2026" />

<Course code="CSE 361" grade="C-" term="Fall 2025" note="Taken concurrently with the NYCHA cybersecurity internship." />

<Course code="CSE 363" grade="IP" term="Spring 2026" />

### Communications, law & ethics [#communications-law--ethics]

<Course code="CSE 300" grade="A" term="Spring 2025" note="Upper-division writing requirement." />

<Course code="CSE 312" grade="B-" term="Fall 2025" />

## Supporting coursework [#supporting-coursework]

Math, science, and humanities courses taken toward the Stony Brook Curriculum
and major requirements. Each row expands to the official Undergraduate
Bulletin description for its department.

### Mathematics & applied math [#mathematics--applied-math]

<Course code="AMS 161" grade="A-" term="Spring 2023" />

<Course code="AMS 210" grade="A" term="Fall 2023" note="First upper-division A." />

<Course code="AMS 301" grade="B" term="Spring 2024" />

<Course code="AMS 310" grade="C" term="Fall 2023" />

<Course code="MAT 126" grade="B+" term="Fall 2022" />

<Course code="AMS 261" grade="W" term="Fall 2024" note="Withdrew." />

### Natural sciences [#natural-sciences]

<Course code="PHY 131" grade="A-" term="Fall 2023" />

<Course code="PHY 132" grade="B+" term="Spring 2024" />

<Course code="PHY 133" grade="A-" term="Fall 2023" />

<Course code="GEO 102" grade="A" term="Spring 2024" />

### Humanities & social sciences [#humanities--social-sciences]

<Course code="PHI 108" grade="A-" term="Fall 2024" />

<Course code="POL 102" grade="A" term="Fall 2023" />

<Course code="HUR 235" grade="B-" term="Fall 2022" />

<Course code="WRT 102" grade="B+" term="Spring 2023" />

<Course code="IAE 101" grade="A" term="Fall 2022" />

<Course code="MUS 105" grade="A" term="Spring 2025" />

<Course code="LIN 200" grade="IP" term="Spring 2026" />

<Course code="SOC 200" grade="IP" term="Spring 2026" />

### Freshman seminars [#freshman-seminars]

<Course code="SBU 101" grade="S" term="Fall 2022" />

<Course code="SBU 102" grade="A" term="Spring 2023" />

### AP / transfer credit accepted at matriculation [#ap--transfer-credit-accepted-at-matriculation]

Eight APs — including AP English Language (94/97), AP US History (93/93),
AP Computer Science A (98/97), AP Psychology (98/100), and AP Calculus AB —
converted into Stony Brook credit, satisfying large portions of the Stony
Brook Curriculum gen-ed requirements at Fall 2022 admission. Transfer credits
are recorded with a grade of `T` in the Degree Works audit and do not affect
the GPA.

## What the transcript misses [#what-the-transcript-misses]

A ledger of coursework doesn't say what was running in parallel. A rough pairing:

* **Fall 2023** — while taking Systems Fundamentals I, interned as a marketing CRM migrator at The Hardy Group; Spring term treasurer of the BJJ club.
* **Summer 2024** — between terms, shipped the Beyer Blinder Belle Python automation that is [still running daily eighteen months later](/docs/about/experience).
* **Spring 2025** — alongside Technical Communications and Systems Fundamentals II retake, launched **Tiny Steps CMS** — HIPAA-compliant, 42 users, 2,375 test cases.
* **Fall 2025 – Jan 2026** — while taking Web Security, Software Engineering, and Logic, interned in cybersecurity at [the New York City Housing Authority](https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nycha/index.page) — one of two interns selected, working Splunk and CrowdStrike incident response across infrastructure serving 400,000 residents.
* **Spring 2026** — while taking Computer Security Fundamentals and Offensive Security, sole developer for Big Minds Tiny Hands — six production apps, 5,692 employee-hours tracked, 22,940+ discrete trials logged, $5,100/mo in enterprise tools replaced. See [Experience](/docs/about/experience) for the full ledger.

## The Bronx High School of Science [#the-bronx-high-school-of-science]

**NYC Specialized High School · Sep 2018 – Jun 2022 · Bronx, NY**

Cumulative average &#x2A;*93.44%** across 49 credits, per the NYC DOE Student Permanent Record. Admission is by a single citywide exam — in 2024, Bronx Science
offered seats to only about 748 of the \~26,000 students who took the SHSAT
that fall ([Ivy Tutors Network, Bronx Science admissions 2023–24](https://ivytutorsnetwork.com/blog/bronx-high-school-of-science)).

Founded in 1938 by first principal Dr. Morris Meister. Motto: *Inquire,
Discover, Create* ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronx_High_School_of_Science)).

### Institutional context [#institutional-context]

* **Nine Nobel laureates** — more than any other secondary school on earth. If Bronx Science were a country, its nine Nobel laureates would place it 23rd globally, ahead of China ([American Physical Society: Historic Physics Site](https://www.aps.org/funding-recognition/historic-sites/bronx-science)).
* **Three Turing Award winners*&#x2A;, including &#x2A;*[Martin Hellman '62](https://www.bxscience.edu/apps/news/show_news.jsp?REC_ID=403749\&id=1)** — the "H" in Diffie-Hellman, the 2015 ACM Turing Award recipient whose key-exchange algorithm made modern cryptography possible.
* **Nine Pulitzer Prize winners** and **six National Medals of Science** recipients among alumni ([Bronx Science Alumni Foundation](https://alumni.bxscience.edu/?page=notablealumni)).
* **132 Regeneron Science Talent Search finalists** — more than any other high school in the United States.
* Designated a [Historic Physics Site by the American Physical Society](https://www.aps.org/funding-recognition/historic-sites/bronx-science) in 2010.

### Subject-area averages [#subject-area-averages]

| Subject              | Average | Credits |
| -------------------- | ------- | ------- |
| English              | 93.00%  | 7.0     |
| Social Studies       | 91.67%  | 6.0     |
| Mathematics          | 94.91%  | 12.0    |
| Sciences             | 92.25%  | 12.0    |
| Foreign Language     | 94.67%  | 6.0     |
| The Arts             | 93.50%  | 2.0     |
| Health / Physical Ed | 98.00%  | 4.0     |

Source: NYC DOE Student Permanent Record, issued January 2022.

### AP and Regents highlights [#ap-and-regents-highlights]

* AP English Language 11 — 94 / 97 &#x2A;(teacher: Kim)*
* AP US History — 93 / 93 &#x2A;(teacher: Schorr)*
* AP Computer Science A — 98 / 97 &#x2A;(teacher: Qiu)*
* AP Psychology — 98 / 100 &#x2A;(teacher: Sofman)*
* AP Biology — 86 &#x2A;(teacher: O'Leary)*
* Rhetoric and Composition — 100 &#x2A;(teacher: Lewis)*
* Spanish Level 3 Honors — 91 &#x2A;(teacher: Uceda)*
* Regents: Common Core Algebra I 91, Geometry 90, Living Environment 94, Chemistry 87, Spanish Proficiency 88.

## Sources [#sources]

All facts and numbers on this page are pulled from primary records or
citable public sources. A consolidated list:

* **Transcripts** — NYC DOE Student Permanent Record (Jan 2022); Stony Brook University Student Information System (April 2026).
* **Stony Brook course data** — [SBU Undergraduate Bulletin — CSE courses, Fall 2024](https://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/bulletin/current/academicprograms/cse/courses.php).
* **Stony Brook CS rankings** — [CSRankings](https://csrankings.org/#/index?all\&us); [SBU CS news — Top 10 in Computer Vision](https://www.cs.stonybrook.edu/about-us/News/stony-brooks-got-vision-computer-vision-group-ranked-top-10-nationally).
* **Bronx Science facts** — [Wikipedia: Bronx High School of Science](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronx_High_School_of_Science); [APS: Bronx Science as Historic Physics Site](https://www.aps.org/funding-recognition/historic-sites/bronx-science); [Bronx Science Alumni Foundation](https://alumni.bxscience.edu/); [Ivy Tutors Network 2023–24 guide](https://ivytutorsnetwork.com/blog/bronx-high-school-of-science).
* **Martin Hellman '62 Turing Award** — [Bronx Science news release](https://www.bxscience.edu/apps/news/show_news.jsp?REC_ID=403749\&id=1).
* **Bottom Line** — [bottomline.org](https://www.bottomline.org/new-york/); [IES What Works Clearinghouse — Bottom Line Intervention Report, 2021](https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/Docs/InterventionReports/WWC_IR_Bottom-Line_REPORT_508.pdf).