Experience

D. E. Shaw Research

• United States
• Research Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Research Scientist/Engineer

  • Jan 2016 - Present

  Greater New York City Area Verifying a next generation ASIC for molecular dynamics. Writing embedded and system software to stress test portions of the architecture in simulation and formal runs.



Georgia Institute of Technology

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Aug 2012 - Dec 2015

  Greater Atlanta Area Currently (High Performance Computing Laboratory): Experimenting with streaming implementations of graph analytics on GPUs and heterogeneous architectures. These implementations are to be evaluated by two major criteria: performance and power. Past (Computer Architecture and Systems Laboratory): Completed a Master's thesis that involved power-constrained execution of GPU graph algorithms and also worked on a project that leveraged LLVM for fast high-level simulation of the energy… Show more Currently (High Performance Computing Laboratory): Experimenting with streaming implementations of graph analytics on GPUs and heterogeneous architectures. These implementations are to be evaluated by two major criteria: performance and power. Past (Computer Architecture and Systems Laboratory): Completed a Master's thesis that involved power-constrained execution of GPU graph algorithms and also worked on a project that leveraged LLVM for fast high-level simulation of the energy consumption for iterative algorithms. Show less



D. E. Shaw Research

• United States
• Research Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Hardware Verification Intern

  • May 2015 - Aug 2015

  Greater New York City Area Translating a System-C like language to RTL in order to aid the formal verification of specialized parallel architectures.



NVIDIA

• United States
• Computer Hardware Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Intern

  • May 2014 - Sep 2014

  San Francisco Bay Area Constructed parallel graph algorithms for the verification of memory consistency on weakly-ordered architectures. For a suite of 89 tests our tools were 13.4x faster on average than current tools in use at NVIDIA.



AMD

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Co-op Engineer

  • May 2013 - Aug 2013

  Austin, Texas Area Explored the power implications of graph algorithms on GPUs. Developed a dynamic power management algorithm that performed 18.64% faster than contemporary frequency boosting techniques for a diverse set of real world and synthetic benchmark graphs.



Los Alamos National Laboratory

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • May 2012 - Jul 2012

  Los Alamos, NM Using techniques and tools from high performance computing to optimize stencil computations to approximate derivatives for applications such as image processing or thermodynamics.



Georgia Institute of Technology

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Teaching Assistant

  • Aug 2011 - May 2012

  Atlanta, GA Spring 2012: Head TA for ECE2025, Introduction to Signal Processing. I manage 8 other TAs, write all lab solutions, proctor exams, and handle the electronic recording of grades for the course. Fall 2011: TA for ECE2025, Introduction to Signal Processing. I hold office hours, grade homework and labs, write lab solutions, assist students in one lab section, and proctor exams.



Boston University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• CIDAR Research Assistant

  • Oct 2010 - Dec 2010

  I am currently writing an Algorithm Manager Application in Java for Clotho, a system of applications for creating standardized methodologies for Synthetic Biology, as a member of the Center for Integrating Design Automation Research at BU.



The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey

• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Aide

  • May 2010 - Aug 2010

  - Assisted Automotive Engineers with vehicle inspections, specifications, and contracts. - Created forms, queries, reports, and Visual Basic modules for a Microsoft Access database to track vehicle summonses.



The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey

• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Management Intern

  • Jun 2009 - Aug 2009

  - Took an existing Microsoft Access database and improved it based on employer’s needs and requests by developing Visual Basic modules. - Trusted with confidential contractor vetting information from the World Trade Center Fraud Prevention Program.