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Menlo Park, California, United States

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Champaign, Illinois, United States

- Learning neural-network-based dynamical system models which obey physical priors such as energy conservation and stability, applied to rapid large-scale integrated circuit simulation- Proposed a representation-learning-based mutual information estimator for Markov blanket feature selection, which was used to learn an RNN that could predict 94% of datacenter disk failures with 1% false alarm rate- Developed a maximum-likelihood-based local search algorithm that can learn the structure of cyclic directed graphical models from data, and applied the algorithm on an fMRI hippocampus dataset

Folsom, California, United States

- Created data pipeline for collecting diagnostic data from datacenter solid state drives for failure prediction- Compiled dataset from ~300,000 drives and eliminated irrelevant features using mutual information estimation

Tucson, Arizona Area

- Built antenna array with real-time direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation based on an in-house RF front end- Wrote network driver to process real-time signals and implemented the MUSIC DOA algorithm (C++, Python)

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

- Automated classification of written damage reports for expediting industrial machine repairs- Trained SVM-based n-gram model achieving ~90% test set accuracy on hand-sorted reports (scikit-learn, nltk)

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd

Master Of Science - Ms, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering