Casey Sharp Email & Phone Number

I am a second year student studying electrical engineering at the University of California Irvine. My interests point towards applications in computer engineering, specifically in hardware design and hardware-software interfaces. I am most interested in AI silicon, ASIC design of GPUs, and graphics computing utilizing parallel programming. This growing industry will provide me with countless opportunities to contribute to a field that genuinely interests me. My most exciting opportunity thus far has been working in CORSA Lab at UCI. I am granted the opportunity to work independently with the mentorship of a PhD student also in the lab. I am currently working on improvements of various LLMs (i.e. Meta’s codellama 2) using RAG technologies so the LLMs can better optimize complex CUDA code. My personal favorite aspect of the project was working through understanding CUDA optimizations and how the optimizations mapped to the NVIDIA GPU hardware, and working backwards to convert the optimized examples to less optimized versions for the code comparisonsI’m excited to dive more into the hardware applications of AI and to continue advancing a technology that I see as being as fundamental as the steam engine in the coming years.Outside my academic pursuits you might see me catching waves at one of the countless awesome beaches in Orange county or San Diego, or practicing my guitar in Aldrich Park.