First Instinct
Hyun Ik Jang is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Prior to his graduate studies, he worked at KISA (Korea Internet & Security Agency) as a system developer/administrator for four years. While at KISA, he developed and managed the database, servers, and related system software for national .KR DNS (Domain Name System). His research interests are in the areas of mobile computing, location based service, ubiquitous computing, wireless networking, multimedia communication, and computer/network security.
Hyunmin Lee is a Ph.D. candidate at the Missouri School of Journalism. She earned her master’s degree in Public Relations at the University of Florida. Lee’s research focuses on new and social media, and public relations practices in the context of health communication. An avid researcher, Lee has initiated and participated in a number of studies examining the usage of social media for health information dissemination and building organizational-public relationships. Her research has been recognized in top peer reviewed journals and selected as book chapters. Prior to graduate school, Lee worked at a PCO (Professional Convention Organization) company in Seoul, South Korea as an assistant account executive and a freelance interpreter.
Taein Park is a Convergence Journalism and Communication major at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Originally hailing from Seoul, South Korea, Taein is currently a Dean’s list student in the Journalism school, and simultaneously working for one of the biggest Christian newspapers in South Korea.
Park is also a power political blogger and Twitterian in South Korea. Since 2007, more than 1.1 million have visited his personal blog site, and more than 4200 people follow his tweets. He is very excited working with Hearst for this Android Project.
Jaewon Shin is a Master’s student in Computer Science at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science also at the University of Missouri Columbia. Shin worked in various entities such as The Susan Horak Company, Powoo, and Hoseo University in South Korea as a game and server programmer, web programmer, and 3D Graphic programmer. He is also skilled in computer languages such as JAVA, C/C++, Haskell, Linux, PHP, HTML, SQL, SOCKET programming, and Android. Shin’s research interest lies in graphics, android, and AI (artificial intelligence).
JiEun Choi is an international student
from South Korea majoring in Fine Art as a freshman at MU.
She also attended an art school in New York City where she specialized in Computer Art. Her specialty is visual art, especially drawing and
coloring.
Team Buzz
Akshay Dave is a 2nd year Master Student in Computer Science and analyst/developer for Team Buzz. Akshay was developer in one of the winning teams (Team Copper) in last year‘s RJI Adobe/Hearst competition at University of Missouri. Akshay is currently a Research Assistant in the Computer Science department to develop Image Analysis Tools using RIA. He has 5 years of IT industry experience as a web developer and has deep interest in developing Android Apps and RIA based on Android and Flex.
Fei Wu is a senior studying Computer Science. He studied Electrical Engineering at Shanghai University and transferred to MU his junior year. He now works as an undergraduate research assistant, mainly helping to develop Android applications for research purposes in the Sensor network lab of the Computer Science Department.
Chao Shi is a senior majoring in Computer Science. He transferred from Shanghai University in China after his sophomore year. He works as an undergraduate research assistant at the Distributed Computing & Sensor Networks Research Laboratory in the Computer Science Department. During his spare time, he likes to play Texas Hold'em, tennis, basketball and read tech news. He also plays flute in the University Band.
Patrick Sweet is a senior MU student majoring in both English and journalism. He grew up in Littleton, Colo., and was driven to leave the snow-capped mountains of his home state by a growing passion for reporting and investigative journalism. Patrick is an assistant city editor at the Columbia Missourian and volunteers in the NICAR data library.
Colby Gergen is a Mizzou senior and dual major in Strategic Communication, of the Journalism School, and Sociology. He enjoys creating and tinkering with things. Currently, Colby is President of AAF Mizzou, AE/Strategist of YAYA Media, Student Advocate for SMC MidMo and a marketing mercenary.
The App Factory
Daniel Maxson is a junior in Journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia and one of the winning team members of last year's RJI Interactive Design Competition. His experience in interface design includes usability testing for Newsy.com's homepage as well as participating in the design process of Iron Realm Entertainment's product page and assisting in the design of in-game interfaces.
His other interests include music production, game design and development, C programming, brand strategy, the Fibonacci sequence, flash fiction, and baking. Every winter he returns home to sunny Roseville, California.
Dan Wang is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science, University of Missouri. He received his M.S. and B.S. degrees from Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China, in 2007 and 2003, respectively.
Dan has extensive research and development experience on mobile computing. He has designed and developed several business-level apps on iOS, BlackBerry, Android and Atom platforms. In 2009, he won the RJI iPhone competition and the team NearBuy’s app has been downloaded 200K+ times from the Apple app store. He also developed and maintained Newsy.com’s BlackBerry, iPad, iPhone, and Netbook apps and they are well received by users all over the world.
Suman Deb Roy is a 3rd year PhD fellow at the Center for Cyber Security Research in the Department of Computer Science. His research work focuses on semantic search, network intelligence algorithms and security. His other academic interests include building various applications on Android Systems, ranging from games to localization techniques using smart phones.
In his leisure, Suman loves playing guitar, scoring goals in soccer and white-hat hacking. Some of his professional affiliations include being a former web-admin for CS Graduate Student Council and serving as the current vice-president of ‘Upsilon Pi Epsilon’, the only honor society for Computing and Information Disciplines in the US. He has also served as an official reviewer for a number of top level CS journals.
Brent Davidson As a convergence journalism and finance dual major here at Mizzou Brent is looking to solve problems facing new media and business. Coming from a great experience on a winning team in last year’s RJI competition he is very excited to take skills he learned there and add to them in this year’s competition. Brent is bringing experience in business and apps working at Newsy.com and social media marketing at Walt’s bike shop here in Columbia.
In another life as a collegiate cyclist he leads the Mizzou Cycling Team across the Midwest and to national level competitions. And when he's not trying to stay upright on two wheels you can find Brent skiing on water and snow, or taking photos of most anything that moves.
Qia Wang is a Ph.D. Student from Computer Science department. His research interests include: Mobile Computing, Knowledge Mining, Ontology, Semantic Web, Multimedia Processing and Computer Vision. Qia says it is a great opportunity to work with people from Hearst and friends from the journalism school.
He likes smartphone development and has several development experiences. He and a friend developed iImage (an iPhone app demo), which is used for building images matching. That demo was published by the 2010 Consumer Communication and Network Conference. He is also making an Android app for location-based forum and information sharing with the help of the Google Map API. Qia is the Android app programmer for Newsy.com. Newsy's Android app has been downloaded nearly 50,000 times.
Media Moguls
Bryan Baugher is a senior studying Computer Science and Mathematics from St. Louis Missouri. He enjoys programming, playing with electronics, video games, and running. Bryan helped restart the Computer Science & Information Technology Honors Society Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) in 2009 and was President until fall of 2010. He has accepted a job with Cerner and will be moving to Kansas City in June.
Matthew Schmertz is a Senior Convergence Journalism major and Business minor from Fort Worth, Texas. Matt has a strong interest in mobile advertising, content and application development. He worked on a student team that created a functioning tourism application for the City of Columbia Convention and Visitors Bureau. Matt has also worked at Newsy.com, an online news startup in Columbia, Missouri as well as The Columbia Missourian, KOMU 8 and KBIA.
Amanda Klohmann is a senior Convergence Journalism major with an emphasis in Online Media and a minor in business. Amanda has spent time interning in her hometown of St. Louis, Missouri with the Bonneville Radio Group (ESPN Radio, The Bull, and The Arch) and online entertainment magazine ToastedRav.com. Last summer Amanda left St. Louis to live in New York City and work as a Time Inc. editorial intern at Sports Illustrated magazine. She has also had experience working in the newsrooms at Newsy.com, The Missourian, KOMU, and KOMV.
Last semester Amanda was part of a team working with the Missouri Department of Transportation to design an application for iPhones and she is excited to continue working in the area of mobile application development through the RJI competition this semester. Amanda will graduate in May and hopes to pursue a job in either mobile development or online media.
Morgan Mitchell is a senior at the University of Missouri School of Journalism; majoring in strategic communication and receiving a minor in business. Over the past summer Morgan worked at a digital agency called space150 where she helped account executives deliver effective mobile advertising for companies like American Express and Forever21. In addition to her internship, this past semester Morgan worked with a team to create a travel application for the local Convention & Visitors Bureau. She is passionate about mobile marketing and reaching consumers at their fingertips.
Josh Lory is a junior Computer Science and Math major at Mizzou. He's had two software engineering internships with Cerner Corporation in Kansas City, and this summer will be interning with Microsoft in Redmond, WA. This is Josh's first time working with the Reynolds Journalism Institute. He says it's been a great experience so far.
Team 5 Bars
Zach Wade is an interaction design specialist with a strong background in website creation, graphic arts and animation. He finds joy in making interfaces looks good and work intuitively. As a convergence journalism major with an emphasis in information graphics, a political science major, and an economics minor, Zach has a refined sense of taking complex ideas and data and making them visually accessible.
Zach's technical skill's include advanced abilities in Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, and ActionScript 3.0. He is fluent in web languages such as but not limited to HTML, SMIL, and JavaScript. Zach has served as the Graphics Editor of the Columbia Missourian, Vice President - Public Relations of the Mizzou Student Foundation, and is currently directing and producing training video for University of Missouri staff. This is Zach's second year participating in the joint RJI, Hearst Innovation competition.
Geoff Pado is a senior Information Technology major. Geoff has extensive experience developing and marketing mobile applications. Geoff is focused on making robust, usable apps that take advantage of the latest mobile and Web technologies.
Geoff has experience developing applications for both iOS and Android phones, as well as traditional desktop systems. He also has built web APIs for applications in languages such as PHP and Ruby. Most recently, Geoff has been involved in developing the iPhone and Android applications for the True/False Film Festival as a member of Tyten, LLC.
Joshua Smith is an IT graduate with strengths in web programming and database design as well as experience developing applications to communicate with various web services. He enjoys exploring the latest technologies to better communicate data across platforms.
Joshua has experience with multiple languages including PHP, Java, MySQL, HTML, CSS, C#, and JavaScript. He is currently involved as the web developer for Project 573.
Amanda Bromwich is a senior convergence journalism major. Amanda has experience project managing numerous multimedia projects, including the interactive slideshow team for last year's RJI Interactive Design Student Competition. She's currently a teaching assistant at The Columbia Missourian and an Executive Producer for Project 573, a student-led multimedia reporting project.
Adam Falk is new media-minded journalist with a keen eye for design. A senior journalism major at the University of Missouri, Adam has spent his time working across platforms to develop creative collaboration. He will serve as Team Five Bar's User Interface Designer, a role he filled for Project Copper in last year's competition.
Aside from this year's project, Adam serves as Executive Editor for Project 573, an innovative, multimedia course within the journalism school that brings 12 students
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