Hi there! My name is Julian Grunauer and I am a member of the Dartmouth College Class of 2021. I will be graduating Fall 2021 with a double major in Computer Science and Cognitive Science, with a specialization in Human-Computer Interaction. In my free time, I code, climb, play tennis, yoyo, and read.
In this portfolio, you will find projects from various classes, previous internships, Dartmouth's DALI Lab, as well as my own personal undertakings. I love meeting like-minded people; feel free to reach out if you want to chat!
I have worked as a programmer, a product manager, a designer, and a consultant, yet, in reality, I have really only been tasked with one job: problem-solving. Software bugs, project roadblocks, critical users, and faulty data all have all led me to the same conclusion: problems are fun. A counterintuitive statement, perhaps. Lacking truth, certainly not.
My Guiding Principle:
"Success is the sum of small
efforts repeated day-in and day-out "
-Robert Collier
As the culminating experience to my degree in Computer Science, I built a React Native MERNG app that offers personalized food recommendations for people looking to try new dishes. Tasked with the role of Full-Stack Lead, I built the majority of both the frontend and backend functionality of the product, as well as some design work.
Prior to my culminating experience, I built a search engine from scratch, developed AR/VR games, worked with state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing tools, created a Dartmouth Cognitive Science Lab website, utilized IBM's Watson, built full-stack apps & websites, and programmed a web-based Cognitive Science study, among many other projects.
Computer Science Courses:
CS1: Intro to Programming
CS10: Software Design & Dev
CS30: Discrete Mathematics
CS25: UI/UX Design
CS50: Software Design &
Implementation
CS52: Full-Stack WebDev
CS55: Security & Privacy
CS72: Accelerated Computational
Linguistics
CS76: Artificial Intelligence
CS89.22: AR/VR Dev
CS89.11: Cognitive Computing with
Watson
CS98.01/98.02 Senior Culminating
Experience
Learning and social connection on college campuses are wrongfully mutually exclusive. Constrained by social norms and a lacking infrastructure for nurturing growth, colleges everywhere neglect accessing the full potential of their students. Learning should not be sequestered to the classroom alone, it should be something that students have the opportunity to engage in at any point in their day, from any source.
PassOn, exists as a social bartering app and subsists on the belief that we all have an innate desire to both learn and share. Learn how to yoyo from a competition-oriented professional, have an hour-long lesson with top-notch musician, hone your tennis abilities with a skilled player: through expensing or trading skills, social interaction and learning can be combined into one holistic experience.
A substantial amount of research has demonstrated that physical activity can have profound effects on cognitive function and mental health. But what are these effects and how significant are they? In 2019, the DALI lab partnered with the Dartmouth’s Psychology and Brain Sciences Department to delve into this research. By utilizing remote sensing and data collection through Apple Health Kit, we helped to gather insight into this correlation and potential causation.
Using both Apple watches and iPhones, we built an app that notifies users (undergraduate psychology students) to complete various memory and reasoning challenges. By measuring cognition function at different intervals pre/post exercise, PBS researchers are hoping to find a link between fitness and cognition.
Technical Background • Design Experience • Agile Workflow • User-Centered Methodology • Business Case Design • Beaurocracy Hacker
Javascript • Python • WebDev • Unity • C/C# • Git • Bash • Java • Data Structures • Algorithms • AR/VR Development • Rapid Learner
Full-Stack • Javascript • React • React Native • Redux • Node.js • HTML • CSS/Sass • Bootstrap • MongoDB • Firebase • Heroku
Figma • Journey-Mapping • Wireframing • Interaction-Design • Mockups • Grayscales • Low/Hi-fi Iteration • User/Design Research
Rapid Prototyping • Storyboarding • Practical Iteration • Roadmapping • User-driven, Data-informed • User & Usability Research
Empathy • Interpersonal Intelligence • Fieldwork Methodology • Research Ethics • Qualitative Analysis • Process Mapping
