Ashwin Kumar Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, California, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

• IA for four semesters of EECS 203: Discrete Math (combinatorics, graphs, computational complexity, etc.) and for one semester of EECS 445: Machine Learning (supervised and unsupervised learning, neural networks, etc.)
• Chosen by faculty to lead the Discussion team (4 IAs), with responsibility for creating weekly discussion notes, slides, and quizzes (Winter 2024 semester)

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

• Summer intern on the machine learning engineering team for a Series B Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) startup
• Automated CI/CD QA pipeline for deep learning models, reducing manual deployment time by 95%+
• Created a proprietary Rust library to evaluate speech-to-text transcription accuracy using a C++ Foreign Function Interface (FFI) that was 10x faster than the best publicly available Rust libraries
• Implemented caching for authenticating requests from API customers, reducing company-wide auth traffic by 85% and eliminating a denial of service (DOS) vulnerability

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

• Music Director for 2022-23, when group placed 4th in the world at ICCA Finals (the competition from Pitch Perfect!)
• Led Fall’22 recruiting process (60+ auditions, 10+ hours of callbacks, and deliberations) to select 4 new members, and coordinated 6 hours of weekly rehearsals to prepare music for performances, competitions, and album.

• Taught 10-12 students programming weekly through project-based learning via 1:1 Zoom sessions
• Built a Google Apps Script tool to enable 300+ instructors to automatically add new lessons to Google Calendar
• Led a pilot group to beta test and deploy synchronizer to online instructing team, saving ~$1,350/week in paid time

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

• Refactored ~30% of Python plotting package for the Aether weather model, plotting weather datasets 15x faster
• Generated weather plots for 30-person NASA shareholders presentation to demonstrate Aether model’s progress

• Designed React feature for lung cancer screening decision aid site to improve accessibility for 416,000 annual visitors
• Organized user studies and created UX personas to optimize feature for disadvantaged Black and Latinx populations

Bachelor Of Science And Engineering - Bse, Computer Science, Gpa: 3.91/4.0

Activities and Societies: Atlas Digital Consulting, V1@Michigan, Maize Mirchi Coursework: Web Systems, Computer Vision, Machine Learning.

Gpa: 4.0/4.0

Dual-enrollment coursework: Symbolic Logic, Multivariable and Vector Calculus, Differential Equations, Probability and Statistics, General.

Gpa: 4.0/4.0

Activities and Societies: Varsity Ice Hockey, International Thespian Society, National Honor Society Coursework: AP Calculus BC, AP.