Marwa Houalla

Teaching

EECS 497: Human-driven Software Development
Semesters taught: Winter 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2024
I help students develop an understanding of the human-centered design process and how to apply it to software development.

EECS 281: Data Structures and Algorithms
Semesters taught: Winter 2021, Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Fall 2023
I design exam questions and oversee their grading. I also hold office hours and lead a lab section.

EECS 370: Introduction to Computer Organization
Semesters graded: Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
I grade assignments covering assembly programming and computer architecture concepts, including pipelining, caches, and virtual memory.

Projects

Personal Projects:

Pokemon Randomizer: Decompiling Pokemon binaries to create a game randomizer for randomized Pokemon and stats.
Reddit Web Crawler: A web crawler that scrapes Reddit posts. You choose the subreddit and the number of posts to scrape.

Operating Systems:

Thread Library: Thread Library to handle the creation, execution, and lifespan of multiple thread bodies on a multi-core architecture, equipped with advanced functionalities such as conditional variables, mutexes, generic threads, inner process interrupt capabilities, and thread lifetime management operations including yield and join.
Virtual Memory Manager: Virtual memory manager that supports file- and swap-backed pages, maintaining processes’ address spaces via the pager interface, enabling syscalls, forking of child processes with non-empty virtual arena, and creating customizable memory sizes with a clock queue to control eviction orders and enable bits for read, write permissions and physical page residency.
Network Fileserver: Built a multi-threaded network file server with fine-grained locking, socket programming, client-server systems, and network protocols.

Thanks Wenzhao for being a great partner!

Compiler Construction:

Designed and built a Rust compiler, progressively adding features such as numbers, local variables, functions, and data structures. Explored potential extensions, including optimizations, static type enforcement, mutable variables, and object-oriented features, aiming to compile to the x64 architecture.

Thanks Daniel Liu for being a great partner!

Honors Thesis:

Engineered scraper tool designed for LinkedIn profiles, ensuring uninterrupted data retrieval and minimizing the risk of timeouts during the extraction process.
Following data collection, conducted textual analysis employing techniques in natural language processing and machine learning. The dataset was transformed into a binary bag-of-words model, upon which Bayesian classification techniques were applied to unveil meaningful insights and patterns.
Demonstrated the outcomes of this research through a thesis presentation. This work was acknowledged with the highest honors within the department.

Web Systems and User Interfaces:

Instagram Clone: Built instagram application using client-side dynamic pages and a REST API. Wrote a client application in JavaScript that runs in the browser and makes AJAX calls to the REST API.
MapReduce: Developed a MapReduce framework in Python. The framework supports fault tolerance, and it is able to handle failures of both mappers and reducers. The framework is concurrent and can run multiple jobs at the same time.
Michigan Mentor: Worked on a team that designed a Figma prototype for a mobile mentoring app and achieved a top-10 ranking in the class that term.

Marwa Houalla

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