Sam Magid
A curious, motivated programmer and student. Studying Computer Science at Williams College. Working as an intern at the Internet Archive.
Current Projects
Typeface Space (Honors Thesis)
Typeface Space is a novel font selection tool built on latent training data from variational autoencoder neural networks. You can read more about my thesis work here.
TI BASIC+ Interpreter
TI BASIC+ is an interpreted programming language adapted from the original TI BASIC language available on the TI 99/4A computer. The language was built in F# using parser combinator and evaluator logic.
Work Experience
Internet Archive
Software Engineering Intern, Summer 2025
Currently working on an AI-news archiving project for the Internet Archive.
Williams College
TA and Tutor, Fall 2022 – Spring 2025
Assisted students on course material for CSCI 134 (Intro to Computer Science) and CSCI 237 (Computer Organization). Helped with labs, study sessions, and individual tutoring.
University of California, San Francisco
Research Assistant, Summer 2022
Worked with the Institute for Global Health Sciences on data analytic projects to reduce complications and death during childbirth in sub-Saharan Africa.
Technical Experience
Programming Languages
Proficient in a wide array of programming languages including Python, C, Java, F#, SQL and several libraries such as React and PyTorch.
Machine Learning
Experience in both supervised and unsupervised machine learning primarily using PyTorch. My honors thesis work explored using VAEs to quantitatively encode typeface style.
Distributed Systems
Both coursework and practical experience in building distributed computer systems, across high and low levels of abstraction and various frameworks.
About Me
Nice to meet you! My name is Sam, and I've spent the past fifteen years exploring a deep fascination with computers, from playing with the settings of my family's Mac Mini at six years old (and accidentally deleting the web browser) to building a Linux media server in my basement when I was fourteen.
I'm currently finishing up my degree in Computer Science from Williams College, spending my final semester abroad at the University of Edinburgh. After that, I'm looking to join a company working to better our world and society for future generations. If you have any thoughts or questions for me, feel free to reach out here!