Education and Work Status
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL | May 2013 |
| M.S. Computer Science | |
| University of Delaware, Newark, DE | May 2009 |
| B.E. Chemical Engineering and B.S. Computer Science | |
| Work Status: Authorized to work in the U.S. |
Work Experience
| Multicoreware, Inc, Champaign, IL | May 2012 - Oct. 2012 |
| Position: Software Engineer | |
| Manager: Mark Allender | |
| Renderscript Compute | |
| Worked with ARM and Google to build and deliver a GPU-accelerated driver for ARM’s Mali GPU and Google’s Android OS. | |
| Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA | May 2011 - Sep. 2011 |
| Position: Graduate Intern | |
| Mentor: Dr. Bronis R. de Supinski | |
| Topology-aware mapping for discontiguous partitions | |
| Mapping the pF3D paraxial wave solver package to improve performance on the IBM BG/Q and discontiguous partitions on the Cray XE6 using graph bi-partitioning methods. |
Research
| Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois | Aug. 2009 - May 2013 |
| Adviser: Dr. Laxmikant V. Kale | |
| Scaling of the OpenAtom quantum mechanics package | |
| Scaling a massively parallel quantum mechanics application to supercomputers with hundreds of thousands of cores. | |
| Task-dependency aware scheduling and mapping of parallel applications | |
| Extracting an application's directed acyclic graph to lower execution time. | |
| Parallel calculation of volumetric particle tracking and velocimetry | |
| Parallelizing an existing algorithm to enable real-time data acquisition. | |
| System-wide energy optimization for multiple DVS components and real-time tasks | |
| Developing an energy model and finding optimal frequencies for multiple system components with real-time task deadline constraints. | |
| Dynamic agglomeration of messages for accelerated clusters | |
| Developing a framework to dynamically agglomerate messages during run- time to automatically adjust grain-size for CPUs and accelerators. | |
| Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware | June 2007 - May 2009 |
| Adviser: Dr. Dionisios G. Vlachos | |
| Design and optimization of catalytic micro-reactors for the oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane to ethylene for polyethylene production | |
| Planned and constructed laboratory setup, improved micro-reactor design, synthesized reactors from raw materials, designed and performed experiments. | |
| Transient studies of ammonia decomposition over Ruthenium catalysts for hydrogen fuel cells | |
| Designed experiments, collected and analyzed experimental results, assisted post-doctorate fellow, and presented results. | |
| Kinetics of homogenous methanol combustion over Platinum catalysts in novel micro-reactors for portable power generation | |
| Programmed laboratory equipment for automating data collection, conducted experiments, and organized results. |
Details available in the Research section of this website.
Teaching
| Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois | Jan. 2011 - May 2011 |
| CS231: Computer Architecture I | |
| Instruct a weekly discussion section for an introductory architecture course. | |
| Dept. of Computer Science, University of Delaware | Sept 2008 - Dec 2008 |
| CISC106: General Computer Science for Engineers | |
| Instructed a 20 person computer lab section for a MATLAB based course. |
Awards and Honors
| HPC Challenge Class II Award – Top Performance | 2011 |
| Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute Travel Grant, Chile | 2011 |
| NSF Graduate Research Fellowship - Honorable Mention | 2010-11 |
| Chemical Engineering Class of 1950 Scholarship | 2009 |
| NSF Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarship | 2007-08 |
| Sylvia and Charles Joanedis Chemical Engineering Scholarship | 2007-08 |
| Ashland Excellence in Leadership Scholarship | 2008 |
| Science and Engineering Scholar Undergraduate Research Grant | 2007 |
| Computer and Information Sciences Outstanding Sophomore Award | 2007 |
| University of Delaware Honors Program - General Honors Award | 2007 |
Activities and Community Service
| Computer Science Graduate Students Organization - Treasurer | 2009-12 |
| CHEGers Chemical Eng. Mentorship Society - President and Founding Member | 2007-09 |
| Delaware Kamaal Competitive Dance Team - Manager and Technician | 2007-09 |
| Study Abroad - University of Melbourne, Australia | 2009 |
| American Lung Association Walk for Life and Breath - Team Captain | 2008 |
| American Cancer Society Relay for Life Fundraisers | 2008 |
| Monster.com Diversity Leadership Program - Chicago | 2008 |
Memberships
| ACM - Association for Computer Machinery | 2007-12 |
| AIChE - American Institute of Chemical Engineers | 2007-12 |
| Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society | 2008-12 |
| Omega Chi Epsilon Chemical Engineering Honor Society | 2008-12 |
| Upsilon Pi Epsilon Computing and Information Science Honor Society | 2008-12 |
| Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society | 2008-12 |
| Golden Key International Honor Society | 2008-12 |