Education
Cornell University
2022 — Current
Georgia Institute of Technology
2021 — 2022
Teaching:
- TA for CS 4820 (Introduction to Analysis of Algorithms), Spring 2023
Graduate-level technical coursework:
- Foundations of Reinforcement Learning (CS 6789)
- Advanced Programming Languages (CS 6110)
- Computational Foundations of Machine Learning (GT CX 4803)
Undergraduate technical coursework:
- Compilers (CS 4120)
- Introduction to Analysis of Algorithms (CS 4820)
- Object Oriented Programming & Data Structures (CS 2110)
- Discrete Mathematics (GT MATH 2603)
- Differential Equations (GT MATH 2552)
- Multivariable Calculus (GT MATH 2551)
- Linear Algebra (GT MATH 1554)
Professional Experience
Undergraduate Researcher at Cornell University Artificial Intelligence
September 2022 – Current • Ithaca, NY
- Participating in reading groups for Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision, and MLSystems.
- Researching methods for reinforcement learning based program synthesis. In direct collaboration with Meta AI.
Lab Researcher at Dickson Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology
May 2020 – Current • Atlanta, GA
- Adapted C code from bacterial genome to the human genome for novel copy number variation detection algorithm.
- Reduced memory consumption by 300GB while maintaining speed via parallelization and low-level C programming.
- Assisted in development of efficient blood assay technique for bacterial infection identification.
- Increased data gathering speed by 4x by writing code to use multiple cameras in parallel with single camera port.
- Co-authored low budget blood assay technique paper; submission for publication in process.
Head of Engineering at Y STEM and Chess Inc. 501(c)(3)
April 2020 – July 2022 • Boise, ID
- Managed 30 undergraduate and professional SWEs.
- Led development of website: YStemAndChess.com to provide free mentoring of underprivileged children from around the world and expand Y STEM and Chess to tutor more than 800 children.
- Interviewed and hired interns and full time developers.
- Engineered and implemented scalable microservice architecture designs to minimize cost.
- Developed real-time chess pairing and mentoring system.
- Implemented recording storage system allowing parents and students to review lessons.
Projects
PrepByAI
July 2021 • Atlanta, GA
- Led development of website: PrepByAI.com, a free ACT preparation site.
- Built machine learning model to identify needs and suggest questions to improve performance using term frequency–inverse document frequency and k-means clustering.
- Over 500 regular users and 9,000+ questions answered to date.
Awards and Honors
- Chamblee High School Magnet Salutatorian.
- Technology Student Association National Competition (each category 500+
submissions):
- 2nd in software development for DataManager project.
- Top 25 for data science for pulsar star detection deep neural network.
- Georgia Science and Engineering Fair Award for Novel Application of Document Distance for CNV Detection.
- National Merit Scholarship Recipient.
- Presidential Scholar Semi-finalist.
Technical Skills
- Languages: C (OpenACC, OpenMP), Python C++, Java, SQL, C#, JavaScript, Ruby, HTML/CSS
- Developer Tools: Jupyter Notebooks, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, VS Code, Amazon AWS, VIM, Makefiles
- Libraries: TensorFlow, Valgrind, Numpy, Pandas, OpenCV, Pillow, Matplotlib
- Frameworks: React.js, Angular.js, Electron.js, Node.js, Express.js, Svelte, Tailwind.css, .NET core
- Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB
You can also view my resume as a pdf here.