Skills

Python

4.5+ Years

git

4+ Years

Machine Learning

2.5+ Years

C/C++

2.5+ Years

Java/Kotlin/Groovy

1.5+ Years

Parallel Computing

1.5+ Years

Distributed Computing

1+ Years

Graph Processing

1+ Years

Javascript

1+ Years

Education

 
 
 
 
 

PhD in Computer Science

Virginia Tech

Aug 2018 – Present Blacksburg, VA

Advisor: Dr. Wu Feng

Lab: Synergy Lab

Relevant Coursework:

  • Operating Systems

  • Big Data Text Summarization

  • Algorithms in Bioinformatics

  • Data Analytics

Organizations:

  • Computer Science Graduate Council (2019-Present)

  • Olympic Taekwondo Club (2019-Present)

 
 
 
 
 

BSc in Computer Science | Mathematics Minor

Grand Valley State University

Aug 2014 – May 2018 Allendale, MI

Relevant Coursework:

  • Data Structures and Algorithms

  • Discrete Structures

  • Calculus and Linear Algebra

  • Operating Systems

  • Artificial Intelligence

  • Data Communications

Organizations:

  • Grand Valley Computing Club (2015-2018)

  • Valley Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Club (2014-2015)

  • Just Tennis (2014)

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Graduate Research Assistant | Synergy Lab

Virginia Tech

Dec 2018 – Present Blacksburg, VA

Projects:

Responsibilities include:

  • Extending LLVM’s Clang-Tidy with new linters targeting OpenCL code meant for FPGAs

  • Testing and documenting FLOCL features

  • Upstreaming FLOCL into the official LLVM codebase

  • Optimizing and parallelizing the stochastic block partitioning algorithm

 
 
 
 
 

Graduate Teaching Assistant | Computer Systems (CS 3214)

Virginia Tech

Aug 2018 – Dec 2018 Blacksburg, VA

Responsibilities include:

  • Evaluating student work as a grader

  • Holding one-on-one sessions with students during office hours

 
 
 
 
 

Kindschi Fellow

Grand Valley State University

Aug 2017 – Dec 2017 Allendale, MI

Mentor: Dr. Gregory Wolffe

Fellowship: Kindschi Undergraduate Research Fellowship in the Sciences

Responsibilities include:

  • Training a Recurrent Neural Network to predict movements of agents based on the D4D datasets from Senegal and the Ivory Coast

  • Preparing a project report detailing the experiments performed and results obtained

  • Presenting results on Student Scholar’s Day (April 2018)

 
 
 
 
 

Software Development Intern

Blue Medora LLC

Aug 2017 – May 2017 Grand Rapids, MI
Responsibilities include:

  • Working as part of a team to build plugins for the VRops monitoring platform: writing production code, testing, participating in meetings, and creating dashboards
  • Creating a Gradle plugin to streamline the build process of monitoring plugins
  • Working with another intern on a script to compare the output of two data providers for QA purposes

Other

Awards and Honors

  • Student Innovation Award (HPEC’19 for “Fast stochastic block partitioning via sampling”)
  • Kindschi Fellowship (Fall 2017)
  • Grand Finish Grant (Fall 2017)
  • International Merit Award (Fall 2014 - Winter 2018)

Research Interests

  • Parallel and Distributed Computing
  • Graph Processing
  • Big Data
  • Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence

Languages

  • English
  • Russian

Other Interests

  • Art
  • Reading
  • Piano
  • Soccer
  • Tennis
  • Biking
  • Taekwondo