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Middletown, Nj, Us

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Collaborated with course staff and professors to administer 15210, a core Computer Science algorithms course to a class of over 200 studentsTaught core algorithms concepts to smaller group of 25 students in weekly recitationsInteracted with students on a near-daily basis to address concerns, answer questions, and ensure that course material was being conveyed

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Researched finding optimal independent contact regions for grasps on 2D objects under Professor Nancy Pollard and PhD student Jonathan King• Performed literature review and gained understanding of the problem from mentors in order to contribute• Constructed data analysis pipeline using Pandas, Numpy, and Matplotlib, allowing for streamlined detection of errors and performance testing

Austin, Texas, United States

• Collaborated with 7 other researchers under Professor Chandrajit Bajaj through weekly meetings and documentation as part of Moncrief Summer Internship program• Built a VR application in Unity that visualizes the training process of a reinforcement learning agent and helps researchers with future improvements• Integrated OpenAI’s Gym library, Unity, and Meta Quest 2 to develop application • Presented project to a group of Oden Institute professors, staffers, and researchers

• Updated performance testing dashboard through NewRelic with SQL-style queries to display stakeholder-relevant metrics• Demonstrated performance testing dashboard to stakeholders and gathered feedback on how to improve it further• Built prototype used to automate performance tests and ran them under load using JMeter

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Researched how to create a multi-threaded version of OpenSSH for faster performance as part of HPNSSH, an NSF funded research project• Created parallelized version of chacha20 cipher using OpenMP for use with standard OpenSSH• Enhanced performance of HPNSSH for the task of large data transfers by over 300 MB/s (over 100% increase)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Participated in a continual learning image recognition project, a workshop hosted at NeurIPS 2021• Contributed to the design, collecting, and processing images into classes using the CLIP model

Holmdel, New Jersey, United States

Worked as a developer on company project called WhatTicket with group of 5 other developers Implemented systems to connect specific tickets to commits and display Jira Tickets summary in WhatTicket portal using Jira API and Bitbucket. Improved quality of application within companyParticipated in weekly project meetings with coworkers and supervisor

Worked as part of MOCA's 2019 NYC Marathon fundraising initiativeQuality checked content and posted stories weekly to the MOCA Spike 150 Virtual Relay website using HTMLFundraiser raised over $150K

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Mentored by Dr. Lorenzo Orecchia in his specialty field of optimizationResearched gradient methods used for constrained convex optimizationCreated and presented a poster at a symposium to other professors and graduate students

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science, 3.9/4.0

Activities and Societies: Table Tennis Club President and Captain Minor in Mathematical Sciences

High School Diploma