Brett Harrison

Brett is pursuing an S.M. degree in computer science from the Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. His research focuses on artificial intelligence and game theory, with specific application to the game of Go. This game has been considered the holy grail of A.I. game-playing research due to the game's immense state-space complexity. He is currently researching how to adapt existing machine learning and heuristic search algorithms to create new move recognition techniques. In the summer of 2007, he was an engineering intern at Ember Corporation, a Boston-based startup company that specializes in Zigbee (IEEE 802.15.4) network solutions. In the summer of 2009, he held a dual role as both trader and quantitative analyst intern at Jane Street Capital, a proprietary trading firm in New York City. During his undergraduate years at Harvard College, Brett was the president of the Harvard Din & Tonics, Harvard University's signature all-male jazz a cappella group. During the summer of 2008, he co-managed the Din & Tonics' biennial world tour, in which they traveled to twenty countries in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia for three months, singing in over seventy performances. In the upcoming fall semester at Harvard, Brett will be a teaching fellow for the undergraduate artificial intelligence class, Computer Science 182.