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Champaign, Illinois, United States

• Developed and implemented VR simulations using C# and Unity to enhance college and high school students’ understanding of electricity and magnetism, transforming complex physics concepts into interactive, visual experiences.• Engineered custom 3D physics engines from scratch to enable accurate simulations of electromagnetism principles, integrating them into educational VR experiences.• Resulting VR experiences are directly integrated to ECE 398 RI1 (Fields and Waves VR Lab) as teaching tools.

Champaign, Illinois, United States

• Enhanced Nvidia DOCA’s compress-deflate algorithm in C++, reducing processing time by more than 50% through optimized preprocessing and preparation.• Determined the optimal DOCA compression size to maximize compression power, minimize data loss, optimize bandwidth utilization, and reduce latency.

Champaign, Illinois, United States

The IMPACT Research GroupSelected out of 2000+ candidates for the Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program and presented at the Undergraduate Research Symposium. Presentation Title: Data Layout and Computation Schedule Co-design for Graph Neural NetworksAssisting Dr. Kun Wu with his research in compilers and libraries for graphics processing units and parallel computer architecture.Developed and optimized a General Matrix Multiplication (GEMM) as part of a compiler to lower high level programming APIs to Nvidia’s CUDA kernels for efficient parallelized computing with relational graph neural networks.

Course Assistant for CS 124: Intro to Computer Science- contributed to the development of course content including machine problems, daily lessons, study guides, and quizzes-tutored students a week on Java concepts, Object-Oriented programming, data structures and algorithms .-led two discussion sections on computing topics related to course content and broader computing topics and opportunities.

Champaign, Illinois, United States

Disruption Lab explores the intersection of business and technology to change the current technological climate using disruptive technologies such as blockchain, NFT's, VR/AR, AI/ML etc. to develop real life solutions for industry clients such as AMD.Technical Interview Preparation Track:- data structures and algorithms- industry software engineering perspective- technical interview preparation

- Led two teams of 10+ developers to create a web and mobile application that introduced accommodations and organizations of the newly built STEAM center and boost student engagement- Utilized Scrum development cycle to receive public and administrative feedback for determination of goals in subsequent sprints- Resulted in increased attendance for organizations at the STEAM center and usage of STEAM center accommodations

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Engineering

International Baccalaureate