★ About Me! NEW!
~ that's me! ~
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Hi! My name is Roo! Welcome to my little corner of the World Wide Web! :) I'm passionate about art, biology, and coding!! I used to run a non-profit art gallery and studio in Berkeley, California, called India Block Arts. We made art for Burning Man most years!! ✿ I have a PhD in Bioengineering, and have co-authored publications cited over a thousand times. One project yielded a real-life patent! I've been coding since I was a kid, and this PHP code I wrote in 2002 still comes up on Google searches (lol)!! These days, my code typically looks like this. |
~~ Vital Statistics ~~
- NAME......: Andrew "Roo" Sczesnak
- LOCATION..: Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
- JOB.......: Software Engineer @ Square
- EDUCATION.: Ph.D., Bioengineering, UC Berkeley
- HOBBIES...: art, biology, coding, mountaineering
- CITATIONS.: 1000+
- PATENTS...: 1 (one whole one!)
★ My Art Projects! HOT!
Selected ambient works, 2014–2022 ✿ Click the pictures to enlarge!
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2019, 2022 ★ Burning Man
MorphoscopeA decorative hexagonal pavilion, shaded during the day and illuminated by six warm lanterns at night. Inside, twelve Edison kinetoscopes, each displaying a different 35mm film when participants turn a crank! How cool is that?! |
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2018 ★ Burning Man
CochleaeThe cochlea is the biological structure that senses sound in our environment. Sixteen scale models of human cochleae are illuminated by flashes of light in response to sound — auditory neurons firing! |
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2017 ★ Burning Man
Doughy-SattvaOur lord, the Doughy-Sattva: a cross between the Pillsbury doughboy and Buddha! Nightly, a cinnamon roll communion is ceremonially administered to participants!! Yum! |
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2015 ★ Burning Man
FlowerFriendWearable, rechargeable, LED flower necklaces. Each is unique, and has a unique color that only it displays. When one flower is in range of others, they exchange colors and display each other's color in perfect sync over radio! |
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2015 ★ Fletcher Lab Art Show
Interactive Ising ModelAn Ising model is a simple mathematical representation of ferromagnetism (look it up!). Two vintage dials control the parameters, projected on a screen. |
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2014–15 ★ Ghost Ship / Libby Schaaf
Teddybear SynthesizerA gyroscope in the body of an ordinary teddybear transmits the bear's orientation to a nearby computer/stereo, translating position into a tone! Tones match the chord progression of a song played through several pairs of attached headphones! |
★ My CV / Resume!
~ Research & Work Experience ~
| Role | Dates |
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| Software Engineer Square, San Francisco, CA | Jan 2021 – Now! |
| Senior Software Engineer OrderWrite, Atlanta, GA (remote) | Jan 2020 – Dec 2020 |
| Software Engineer One Codex, San Francisco, CA | Nov 2018 – Jan 2020 |
| Graduate Student Researcher LBNL & UC Berkeley · PI: Adam P. Arkin | Feb 2014 – May 2018 |
| Research Associate HHMI & NYU · PI: Dan R. Littman | Jul 2010 – Jun 2012 |
| Undergrad Research Assistant UC Berkeley · PI: David V. Schaffer | Feb 2009 – Jun 2010 |
| UNIX Systems Administrator The New York Internet Company | May 2007 – Jun 2008 |
~ Teaching ~
| Role | Dates |
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| Course Designer, BIOENG 131/231 UC Berkeley | Aug – Dec 2018 |
| Graduate Student Instructor UC Berkeley · Fall '15/'16/'17 — BIOENG 131/231 · Spring 2017 — MCB C148 · Spring 2016 — BIOENG 101 | Aug 2015 – Dec 2017 |
~ Education ~
| Degree | When |
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| Ph.D., Bioengineering UC Berkeley | December 2018 |
| B.A., Molecular & Cell Biology UC Berkeley | August 2010 |
~ Awards & Honors ~
| 2017 | Lewis Scholar — UC Berkeley Bioengineering departmental fellowship (2 students/year) |
| 2016 | eLife Early-Career Award — top 5% of applicants |
| 2012 | NSF Graduate Research Fellowship — top 10% nationally |
~ Patents ~
| U.S. Patent 10,011,883 Abramson SB, Scher JU, Littman DR, Pamer EG, Ubeda C, Longman RS, Sczesnak A. "Causative agents and diagnostic methods relating to rheumatoid arthritis." | Granted Jul 3, 2018 |
