User:Jp286

About Me

I am a Duke University student currently studying engineering. I was born in Seoul, South Korea, but lived in America for all of elementary school.

Other Interesting Facts

1. I have a twin sister, who is also in Pratt School of Engineering at Duke.
2. I studied in an international school in Korea, so my English is better than my Korean.
3. I like playing soccer and doing yoga.

My Name

My last name, Park, is one the of most common Korean names. I have two first names: Jee Hye (my Korean one) and Sophia (English). Jee Hye, which means "wisdom", was my birth name. The reason Sophia is my English name is it also translates to "wisdom" in Hebrew. My English name is easy to pronounce: Soh-FEE-ah. My Korean name is pronounced like, but not exactly, "Gee Hey.' The syllables are equally stressed.

Classes I am Currently Taking

• Engineering103
• Molecular Biology
• Calculus II
• Writing 101 (Rhetoric of Slave Narratives)

Grand Challenge Article

Reverse-engineer the Brain

Reverse-Engineering of Human Brain Likely by 2030, Expert Predicts, Priya Ganapati, WIRED, updated 16 August 2010, accessed 13 September 2013 (Grand Challenge)

Favorite Matlab Example

Although I had the most fun doing the Minsweeper game and the 3-D Drawing in "Other Examples," my favorite example was the 3-D surface plots. It was very interesting to see how the code changed the plot. With just a few words, the plot would change color or shape. The user is able to easily change the appearance of the graph, and it was reassuring to see that the code for the changes was not extremely complicated. When looking at the 3-D plot, I could see how 3-D plots produced through programming could have many uses: for medicine, for representing data about the environment and population, for businesses, etc.

--Jp286 (talk) 14:40, 14 September 2013 (EDT)