Sean Lawlor, PhD

Sean Lawlor, PhD

Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area
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Join a world-class engineering-driven company, where you'll have instant impact from day one. WhatsApp has an open culture and flat organization. As a member of our engineering team you will tackle challenging issues of scale, reliability and security while delivering a delightful, simple user experience to a global user base. If you love writing code, hate tons of meetings, then come talk to us. Learn more at https://www.whatsapp.com/join/

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Experience

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Volunteer Experience

  • Councellor

    Dirigo Boys State

    - 6 years 2 months

    Politics

    Camp counselor for multiple years at Dirigo Boys State which teaches the state-level political system for Maine. See http://dirigoboysstate.org/ for more information

Licenses & Certifications

Publications

Patents

  • Area monitoring system and method of merging occurrence records

    Issued United States 10,885,066

    Other inventors

  • Methods and systems for detection of anomalous motion in a video stream and for creating a video summary

    United States

Courses

  • Bayesian Analysis and Prediction

    MATH 782

  • Distributed Systems

    COMP 512

  • Fundamentals of Distributed Algorithms

    COMP 575

  • Machine Learning

    COMP 652

  • Probability and Random Signals 2

    ECSE 509

  • Telecommunication Network Analysis

    ECSE 518

  • Telecommunication Network Architecture

    ECSE 528

Projects

  • Ractor

    An actor framework for the Rust programming language, based on Tokio. Ractor aims to solve a lot of manual management around async programming and process lifecycles by trying to stick closely to the Erlang model which has served the industry well in many applications.

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Honors & Awards

  • Margaret Furst Prize

    McGill University

    Bequeathed by Margaret Furst, an Honours and Masters student in the Electrical Engineering program, who died of cancer at the age of 21. Two prizes, awarded to outstanding Teaching Assistants in Electrical Engineering on the recommendation of the Department and the Electrical Engineering Graduate Student’s Society.

  • Mcgill Engineering International Tuition Award

    McGill University

  • NewPage Scholarship for Excellence in Engineering

    NewPage

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • French

    Limited working proficiency

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