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Sourced 6 Maryland student founded companies, prior to committed capital, which have gone on to raise a combined $5M.

Worked with youcubed on a national data science curriculum for high school classrooms. The curriculum is currently being piloted in California classrooms - YouCubed reached 200,000+ educators nationally.

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Co-Executive Director for UMD's largest student entrepreneurship community. 450+ students and alumni, dozens of companies, $1B+ in combined venture value.

Ad Forecasting Team.

Parallel Software and Systems Group.https://pssg.cs.umd.edu/Awards/Grants:1) CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Honorable Mentionhttps://www.cs.umd.edu/article/2020/12/two-umd-undergraduates-receive-honorable-mentions-cra-outstanding-undergraduate2) NSF REU Awardee 2021Publications:[Nominated For Best Undergraduate Poster][1] Ian Costello and Abhinav Bhatele. Forecasting the Performance of Incoming Jobs using Machine Learning. In Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC ’20.[2] (Preprint) Ian Costello and Abhinav Bhatele. Analytics of Longitudinal System Monitoring Data for Performance Prediction.

Data Science/SWE @ Data Commons. Worked on an open-source knowledge graph powering Google Search results.