Evgeny Vinnik

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Bubble Wrap App: Put Your Scores to the Cloud

The Code Project · Dec 15, 2010

PacketFlow: Managing Network Energy in Smartphones (poster)

10th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2012) · Oct 9, 2012

How to create Android Live Wallpaper

The Code Project · Sep 8, 2010

Simon Fraser University

Apr 2012 - Aug 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos

Travel and Minor Research Award 2013

Issued by Simon Fraser University · Apr 2013

Associated with Simon Fraser University This award was essential for me, as it allowed me to attend the Usenix ATC 2013 conference. Without the support of SFU and the award committee I would never attend the latter.

MICROSOFT Award: Smartphone Applications for Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Issued by "Hacking Health Vancouver" hackathon · Feb 2013

Associated with Simon Fraser University As a member of a team I won the Best use of Microsoft Technologies Award at the "Hacking Health Vancouver" hackathon. We presented a demo that used Microsoft Health Vault APIs to deliver patient's data to the doctor via secure healthcare-oriented cloud. http://blog.hackinghealth.ca/post/44576955484/microsoft-award-smartphone-applications-for

Best Regional Hack at the HackMobile hackathon

Issued by Qualcomm Learning Center · Jun 2014

Associated with Qualcomm On June 20th I've participated in the internal Qualcomm's hackathon for the interns called "HackMoble" The condition of this hackathon was creation of mobile-related project, hack or app. My entry was called "Polyqon Qorld" (YouTube video with demo http://youtu.be/qdhywv_fIvo ) This app is a fusion of 3 mobile technologies by Qualcomm: 1. Vuforia Cloud-powered augmented reality 2. Snapdragon SDK for facial processing 3. AllJoyn for connectionless chatting capability The result was a polygonal application with a pirate and a rapper! Source could be found here: https://code.google.com/p/jvsc/source/browse/#svn%2FPolyqonQorld Judges awarded me with first prize in the "Best Regional Hack" category, which is given to the best team in the non San Diego (where the Qualcomm HQ and the majority of the interns are) location.

2nd Place at SFU WICS and WEG Hackathon - Phone/Web Application Design Competition

Issued by SFU WICS and WEG · Nov 2015

Associated with Simon Fraser University Participated in SFU WICS and WEG Hackathon on November 14, 2015 The theme of the hackathon was to create or modify a mobile/web app to better serve those with disabilities or special needs. I came with nothing but an idea: "A Blind Day" a game without graphics whatsoever and text-to-speech as an only guide to live through the day. Assembled a team on spot, used my knowledge and managerial abilities to put a good demo in 12 hours of coding. Took second place to my surprise. The code of my project could be found here: https://github.com/evgenyvinnik/BlindDay

1st place at the International Women’s Hackathon at SFU

Issued by Microsoft Intern AMbassador, Women in Computing Science (WICS) and Women in Engineering (WEG) · Nov 2014

Associated with Simon Fraser University Note: despite the word "Women's" in the name of the hackathon, the latter was open to all women and men who support females in tech (I am a big supporter of ladies in computing science). One of the topics of the hackathon was "Climate Data Challenge" (http://research.microsoft.com/en-US/events/womens-hackathon2014-october/climate-data-challenge2014.pdf) In about 10 hours me and my teammate Marjan Rouhipour wrote an Android app called "Climatune" from scratch. The app idea (proposed by Marjan) was to retrieve past and projected annual precipitation values from the Climate Data API (http://data.worldbank.org/developers/climate-data-api) for a selected country (selection is done via map clicking), and create and play a wave file (.wav) based on the data. We thought that "audifying" the data will help app users to see the climate change issue in a different way. Our application was using Google Maps to help user in selecting a particular country, reverse geocoding to detect selected country from the latitude and longitude values, and REST calls to the Climate Data API by the World Bank. In addition we generated and played the audio file based on the retrieved data.

2nd Place at IEEE Vancouver Kinect and Structure Sensor Hackathon

Issued by IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Vancouver Section, and BCIT School of Computing and Academic Studies · Nov 2014

Associated with Simon Fraser University I won 2nd place at the IEEE Vancouver Kinect and Structure Sensor Hackathon that took place at BCIT on November 8th. In about 24 hours I formed a team with 3 other people I met there for the first time, and implemented my idea in the form of a Windows app. My idea was "Public Speech Trainer". We used Kinect sensor to track speaker's body posture (and notify him or her whether the posture is "good" (open hands, straight legs) or "bad" (closed hands, crossed legs, scratching head or butt). In addition we used camera to record the speech itself (you can start/stop recording using hands gestures - Kinect would recognize them) and review the video later. I was responsible for managing my team members, implementing recording via camera and adding visual polish to the application. The hackathon was hosted by IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Vancouver Section, and BCIT School of Computing and Academic Studies and sponsored by Microsoft and Occipital

Best for Allied Health Award: Smartphone Applications for Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Issued by "Hacking Health Vancouver" hackathon · Feb 2013

Associated with Simon Fraser University As a member of a team I won the Best for Allied Health Award at the "Hacking Health Vancouver" hackathon. http://blog.hackinghealth.ca/post/44719277579/best-for-allied-health-award-smartphone

1st place in QRSV Activity Challenge

Issued by Qualcomm Research Silicon Valley · Jul 2014

Associated with Qualcomm This award is a funny one (but I am still very proud of it), as it was won not because of my intellect, but thanks to my physical strength and endurance. Here are the details: 1. Every single member of Qualcomm Research Silicon Valley was given a Fitbit Flex. 2. Seven teams were formed each consisting of 6 - 8 people, lead by an intern. 3. During the July 2014 each participant was supposed to rack as many steps as possible. 4. At the end the team with a highest average number of steps wins. I was captain of the team named "SF Giant's Leaps". My responsibilities were: encourage my team members (team managers, senior engineers; all PhDs) to wear Fitbits at all times, make sure they sync data regularly, and (most important) walk more. In my turn I walked like crazy to set a good example and be a true leader of my team: I walked to work and back (6km one way), walked during evening for hours. The result: win in every single category. My team had the most steps (2.7 mln), highest average, and I had most steps individually (1,090,803 steps)

3rd place at Electronic Arts CodeWars 2014 Hackathon

Issued by Electronic Arts · Feb 2014

Associated with Simon Fraser University Was invited to participate in Electronic Arts CodeWars Hackathon/Coding competitions 2014 hosted in their Vancouver Office. Came without any expectations. Met two guys whom I never saw before. Organized a team... In less than 10 hours we created an Android game prototype "Archer VS Zombie" using AndEngine, completed 2 coding sidequests on the first place (no other team were able to finish those), and won 3rd place for our creation! (with a sweet 750$ prize) Talk about will to compete, and team building efforts!

Usenix student grant for NSDI 2014

Issued by Usenix · Mar 2014

Associated with Simon Fraser University This Usenix grant provided the complimentary registration for Usenix NSDI 2014 conference. Thanks to this support the conference attendance became possible. The conference organization was great!

Student/Trainee Poster Winner

Issued by British Columbia Alliance on Telehealth Policy and Research · Jun 2013

Associated with Simon Fraser University Student/Trainee Poster Winner: Evgeny Vinnik, Research assistant/PhD Student, SFU, and team "Smartphone Application to Detect and Prevent Falls". Poster: http://www.bcatpr.ca/workshop/2013/presentations/evgenny-vinnik_falldetection-poster.pdf

SFU Travel and Minor Research Award 2012

Issued by Simon Fraser University · Nov 2012

Associated with Simon Fraser University This award made it possible for me to attend the Usenix OSDI 2012 conference - my first big conference. I am very grateful to SFU and the award committee for their financial support.

top-10 at the Qualcomm IdeaQuest 2014

Issued by Qualcomm · Jul 2014

Associated with Qualcomm Yet another amazing intern competition from Qualcomm. Idea: this is a competition of ideas. It is split in several stages: 1. First stage: every intern has an opportunity to submit a single idea through the special web-site. Categories were: social impact (ideas to change lifes for better), 1000x data challenge(https://www.qualcomm.com/1000x), wild card, simple life (ideas to simplify every day life). 2. Second stage: pairwise voting. All Qualcomm employees (regular and interns) could participate in this stage. During this stage ideas are continuously shown in random pairs, a voter could choose one or skip both. Top 50 idea go to the next round. 3. Third stage: top-10 ideas are selected by anonymous experts. 4. Fourth stage: intern, whose idea is selected to be top-10, should form a team (of up to 4 other interns), and then within 2 weeks prepare a poster and (optionally) demo. 5. Fifth stage: all top-10 teams present their ideas in the format of a trade show , i.e. each team is given a table and easels to display demo and posters, at the Qualcomm HQ. Visitors (interns and full timers) have ballots which they can use to vote for the ideas they liked during the presentation. At the end of the day, three teams with the highest number of votes for are selected. 6. Six stage: top-3 teams present their ideas to the Qualcomm executives (in the format of "Shark Tank" TV show). Ok, that was a long introduction. Now what I was able to accomplish: 1. Submitted my idea. All together 64 ideas were submitted by interns. 2. During the pairwise voting my idea was on the 12th spot. 3. Expects selected my idea as one of the top-10. 4. I formed a team. My responsibilities were: general management between team members (there were 4 of us), poster layout (I had to design 3 large 36" by 24" posters in Adobe Illustrator), demo idea (we had a kitchen scene made of Lego + several Android phones), GUI design for Android applications. 5. We did an amazing demo, but we didn't get into top-3

Blogsquad participant

Issued by Broadcom · Jan 2014

Associated with Broadcom Won the annual Broadcom competition among the interns, which was intended to select individuals who are most active on various social networks and sent them to Consumer Electronic Show (CES) 2014 in Las Vegas. Apparently, this win means that having a Twitter, Youtube channel, and a Facebook page was not a waste of time.

3rd Place at the 24-Hour SFU Hackathon hosted by Microsoft

Jan 2014

Associated with Simon Fraser University Coded 24 hours straight Made Windows Phone app about Vancouver Skytrain Earned 3rd place and unlimited glory Enjoyed the experience.

Usenix student grant for OSDI 2012

Issued by Usenix · Sep 2012

Associated with Simon Fraser University This grant was essential for my attendance of OSDI 2012 conference. Usenix provided money to cover the travel expenses, and gave complimentary registration for the conference. OSDI 2012 was my first big conference and the experiences were amazing.

Travel and Minor Research Award 2014

Issued by Simon Fraser University · Mar 2014

Associated with Simon Fraser University This award was the main source of financing that allowed me to attend the Usenix NSDI 2014 conference. The support from the SFU and the award committee is tremendous.

2nd Place at the "DOOMHACK" Hackathon

Issued by SFU's CSSS and Microsoft IAMbassador · Feb 2015

Associated with Simon Fraser University The aim of this hackathon was to make a post-apocalyptic themed game or app. Or team that consisted of me, and my 2 colleagues created a zombie-themed visual novel using Ren'PY tool. I was responsible for scenario (very important part for a visual novel) and art. We managed to make a playable version in under 10 hours of intense work.

2nd Place and People's choice award at 3 Minute Thesis Competition (FAS Semifinal)

Issued by Simon Fraser University · Feb 2015

Associated with Simon Fraser University I've participated in the 3 Minute Thesis Competition (Faculty of Applied Sciences Semifinal), and won 2 awards: 1. People's choice award (my talk was the best as voted by the audience) 2. 2nd place (as awarded by the official judges of the competition) I did 3 minute talk about my research project "Mobile Application to Detect Falls". Well, it was 3 minutes, when I was on the spot, but it took me at least 5 hours to write my speech and practice it! My win allowed me to participate in the upcoming SFU finals.