Experience

Crescent Fund

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Partner

  • Mar 2023 - Present

  Investor at Southern California's first student-run venture capital firm focusing on building the SoCal startup ecosystem.Website: https://www.crescentfund.vc/Contact: sarah@californiacrescent.fund

• Partner

  • Sep 2022 - Present



Striveworks

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer Intern

  • Aug 2023 - Sep 2023



Bridgewater Associates

• United States
• Investment Management
• 700 & Above Employee

• Investment Engineering Intern

  • Jun 2023 - Aug 2023



Striveworks

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer Intern

  • Jun 2022 - Sep 2022

  Hardening Chariot ML Platform: tasks include vulnerability fixes for microservices, api gateway registration automation, testing, and security check automation (Docker, Kubernetes). Creating a model to predict GPU and CPU resource requirements of 20+ different ML models. Hardening Chariot ML Platform: tasks include vulnerability fixes for microservices, api gateway registration automation, testing, and security check automation (Docker, Kubernetes). Creating a model to predict GPU and CPU resource requirements of 20+ different ML models.



Caltech

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Summer Research Bryant Family Fellowship

  • Jan 2021 - Jun 2022

  Collection, SQL storage, and community network analysis on 10M tweets regarding 2020 anti-lockdown and BLM protests. Working concurrently on a NSF funded project on election official hate speech and trolling detection. (Supervisor: Prof Alverez) Publications: S. Dey, D. Ebanks, S. Hashash, R. M. Alvarez . Eroding Trust in Democracy: How Social Media Attacks on Election Officials in 2020 Undermined American Election Institutions. In Polmeth 2022. C. Kann, S. Hashash, Z. Steinert-Threlkeld, R.M. Alvarez. Personal and Collective Identity in the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protest. In MPSA, 2022. Show less



Virtu Financial

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Quantitative Trading Wintern

  • Jan 2022 - Jan 2022

  Created a risk-reward model for a capstone project to trade gas and oil stock utilizing data analysis and market research. Team placed 1st for best strategy Created a risk-reward model for a capstone project to trade gas and oil stock utilizing data analysis and market research. Team placed 1st for best strategy



GTS

• United States
• Capital Markets
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Winter Intern

  • Jan 2021 - Jan 2021

  Learned about leveraging the latest in software and hardware technology in a highly dynamic market environment. The program is designed to to introduce STEM students to the world of finance. Learned about leveraging the latest in software and hardware technology in a highly dynamic market environment. The program is designed to to introduce STEM students to the world of finance.



University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• IBM-ILLINOIS Center for Cognitive Computing Systems Research (C3SR) Intern

  • Jul 2018 - Oct 2019

  Wrote part of Comm|Scope, a set of microbenchmarks designed for system and application developer to understand memory transfer behavior across different data placement and exchange scenarios. Evaluate and optimize GPUGPU communication on IBM Power9 and x86 CPU architectures. (Supervisors: Prof. Wen-mei Hwu, Carl Pearson UIUC) Wrote part of Comm|Scope, a set of microbenchmarks designed for system and application developer to understand memory transfer behavior across different data placement and exchange scenarios. Evaluate and optimize GPUGPU communication on IBM Power9 and x86 CPU architectures. (Supervisors: Prof. Wen-mei Hwu, Carl Pearson UIUC)



Hanyang University

• South Korea
• Higher Education
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Computer Aided Design Lab Intern

  • Jul 2017 - Jul 2017