Experience

Graduate Student Researcher | University of Wisconsin Madison | Aug. 2023 - Present

Working under Professor Shivaram Venkataraman doing ML-Systems Research. For more details, see my research page.

Teaching Assistant | University of Wisconsin Madison | Aug. 2023 - Present

Assisting in teaching Intro to Big Data Systems

Research Collaborator | University of California Berkeley | Aug. 2023 - Sep. 2023

Designed Multi-Model and Multi-Seed Parallel Multi-Task BO for GPTune codebase. Results show improved-time-to-solution and final parameter selection.

ML-HPC Research Intern | Lawrence Berkeley Lab | June 2023 - Aug 2023

Performed research in the Performance and Algorithms division seeking to develop and improve super computer parameter searches through the parallelization and finetuning of Bayesian Optimization. I extended previous work on the GPTune package.

HPC Consultant | Van Andel | May 2023 - July 2023

Provided guidance and hands-on assistance to Van Andel Medical Institute on a HPC research project which accelerated biological image analysis by up to 10,000x on large scale images. The project I led was recently published in IEEE CIBCB 2023.

CIS Student Ambassador | Grand Valley State University | Jan 2023 - May 2023

Designed and supervised new Python Wave program which seeks to provide academic support and community to students in CIS 160, CIS 161, CIS 162, and CIS 163 through a supervised study group

Teaching Assistant | Grand Valley State University | Aug 2022 - May 2023

Assisted Professor Erin Carrier in teaching CIS 161 and assisted Professor Ira Wooding in teaching CIS 163

Computer Science Tutor | Grand Valley State University | Sep 2020 - May 2023

Taught and assisted students in CIS 161 - Computational Science, CIS 162 - Computer Science I, CIS 163 - Computer Science II, and CIS 241 - System Level Programming and Utilities

MI STEM Research Intern | Ann Arbor Spark | May 2022 - Aug 2022

Through the STEM forward program, I performed machine learning research which enabled more accurate early prediction of Covid outbreaks

ICICLE Lab SROP Intern | The Ohio State University | May 2022 - Jul 2022

Through the Big Ten SROP program, I worked full time doing ML and system’s research in the ICICLE Lab

Undergraduate Researcher | Grand Valley State University | Aug 2020 - May 2022

Pursued independent research project related to which trained neural networks to detect masks in social media images. Fully funded through the Competitive GVSU 2021 Summer Scholars Grant

Research Assistant | Grand Valley State University | Oct 2019 - Aug 2020

Assisted Professor Ira Woodring in researching increaseing the accessibility of video games to those with disabilities

Game Developer | Side Project | Jan 2019 - Aug 2020

A personal project of mine and a few fellow Computer Science students. Find some videos showing off our work on Youtube

Web Developer | University of Michigan | May 2020

Designed and created a website for a virtual research presentation event