Daniel Abolafia Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, California

• Deep learning research for Google Brain.
• Led research on modular neural architectures for program synthesis with deep reinforcement learning (RL) dynamic routing, deep RL agents with backtracking actions, and deep RL for program synthesis with open sourced.
• Implemented distributed reinforcement learning using Impala, A3C, and asynchronous deep Q-learning at scales of 10-200 CPU workers per instance with GPU/TPU gradient aggregator, and 10-400 instances per hyperparameter.
• Implemented and trained LSTM and DC-GAN melody generation models and core infrastructure for the Magenta group (art and music generation).
• Implemented training enhancements from the paper "Reward Augmented Maximum Likelihood" in Google's production neural machine translation model.

Mountain View, California

• Implemented system for correcting timestamps in Android device analytics, involving changes to production server-side (C++) and device-side (Java) components of Android OS. Awarded US patent.
• Built and trained neural battery drain model for Android.

Redmond, Washington

Worked on improvements and new features for File Explorer UX in Windows 10.

Redmond, WA

Developer for Windows Phone in user experiences.Added syncing support for iCloud accounts.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Assisted Professor Hans Lindblad with his relativistic gravity wave solution calculator.Used CUDA in C++ to parallelize computation on an array of GPUs

Redmond, WA

Developer for Windows 8 Kernel team.Added internet connection sharing capabilities to Windows 8 Core.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

- Worked on hardware implementations of biologically inspired neural network simulations.- Redesigned a portion of the Event Related Neural Simulation Tool (ERNST) being developed at the JHU Mind-Brain Institute. Key algorithms in ERNST were implemented in hardware and parallelized using VHDL on a Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA.- Additionally funded for a summer by.

Assisted with research to study lithium and tungsten dust particle contamination in fusion reactions.Wrote Python code that produced 3D interactive animations from plasma and particle data.Published paper listed below.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science

Dean's List every semester

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