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About Me!

Me!!

Hi, my name is Brian Lin. I'm from Lake Zurich, Illinois (about an hour north of Chicago). I went to a pretty large public school called Adlai E. Stevenson high school which currently has a bit under 4,000 students!

Currently a 1st year BME student here at Duke. Some interests include:

  • Going for night runs around campus
  • Playing guitar (favorite bands include Dispatch, Streetlight Manifesto, and Dream Theater)
  • Learning how to speak Chinese (and then hopefully Korean, Cantonese, and Japanese)
  • Cooking and baking things (cleaning up is a different story)
  • Ultimate frisbee
  • Making bad League of Legends puns


Grand Challenge: Secure Cyberspace

[1] Sherali Zeadally, Gregorio Martinez, Han-Chieh Chao, IEEE Computer Society, April 2013, accessed August 31 2014

MATLAB

Four Linked Tori

Four Linked Tori [2]

I haven't had too much experience in the computer programming world, but with my few forays (including the LaTeX lab), I've really grown to appreciate organization, simplicity, and efficiency. When using R in the past and running T tests and other Stats tests across large matrices of data (such as histone methylation across the blood samples of 80 people), I'd often end up with up to a couple minutes of downtime waiting for the program to run. With that in mind, it's really interesting to see how MATLAB can create a complicated-looking graphic from such a simple program. Of course, this is very different from churning through large amounts of data, but it's impressive nonetheless.