- Postdoctoral ResearcherDonald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences | University of California, Irvine2016 - PRESENT
- Involved with the ongoing research of combinatorial optimization in online advertising.
- Created novel concurrency and inter-process synchronization methods for parallel and distributed computing.
- Developed batch size selection for stochastic gradient descent.
- Designed spot market clearing mechanisms for transportation spot markets.
- Built an agent-based framework for general distributed computation.
Technologies: Python, Java, Bash - Graduate Student Researcher | Teaching AssistantDonald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences | University of California, Irvine2010 - 2016
- Worked on several optimization and parallel execution themed papers.
- Participated in several smart city projects with researchers in China and the UK.
- Developed a mathematical model and analysis of sequential ad polling. Implemented an algorithm making use of the model that guaranteed bounded sub-optimality (with respect to expected value given a time budget). Wrote a conference paper, journal paper, and a dissertation with these findings.
- Assisted in introductory computer programming, and discrete mathematics courses. In particular I have worked on introductory and intermediate Java, C, and Python courses.
- Done significant research on thread and process synchronization and low-level inter-thread message passing constructs.
Technologies: LaTeX, Python, Java, Android, Bash, C - Advanced Engineering InternCalAmp Wireless, Inc.2015 - 2015
- Designed, planned, implemented, and tested a new release of the company’s (M2M/MRM) cloud infrastructure back-end.
- Ensured that the release was fault-tolerant, recoverable, scalable through integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), and that the message triggered execution was dynamically reconfigurable.
- Implemented and A/B tested the AWS Kinesis and AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS) based solutions to persist and load-balance incoming traffic.
- Worked on a project that was a dynamic message router implemented for direct integration into a Spring-integration environment.
- Developed the router component which was a meta-construction allowing each Spring Integration component to determine what the next procedural step to execute on the output of the current step should be, then routing it.
Technologies: Java, JUnit, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Integration, AWS, AWS Kinesis, AWS SQS - Software Engineering InternAdaptive Medias, Inc.2014 - 2014
- Developed a heuristic optimization solution for the ad-ordering problem written in Java. The solution was deployed into production for determining advertising waterfalls for users.
- Wrote a RESTful web application in Python Flask to accept web-domain URLs and classify (using MALLET) the semantic content into IAB tier 1 categories. This was deployed into production as a web service, and was at the heart of the main aim of a sprint.
- Worked in Scala with the Cloudera package of Hadoop to write Spark code to perform log aggregation. Terrabytes of event logs relating to customer interactions were condensed into life cycle objects and written to disk.
- Ensured that each of these three projects were released into production as web microservices. Each was developed as a Git branch and successfully integrated into a development and subsequently operating branch.
- Worked on a team developing and comparing alternative mathematical models for classifications—as part of the classification work.
Technologies: Python, Flask, Java, Scala, Hadoop, Hive, Cloudera, RESTful Web Services, MALLET Classification (Machine Learning) - Web Application DeveloperIntellisurvey Inc.2010 - 2010
- Designed and implemented new features and enhancements to the Intellisurvey software (in Perl and mod_perl).
- Found and resolved software defects—debugging and feature creation though an in-house ticketing system.
- Assisted in developing the Intellisurvey infrastructure.
- Created tools to aid in development, testing, and systems administration.
- Provided technical support to internal software users and to clients who use licensed Intellisurvey software tools.
- Added UI features in JavaScript to components of the web system's front-end.
Technologies: Perl, mod_perl, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Bash - Research AssistantUniversity of California, Irvine2009 - 2010
- Installed, configured, and populated a PostGres database with heterogeneous data sources. Developed a JSP front-end.
- Linked data sources on the basis of common fields and meta information.
- Optimized MATLAB algorithms for dynamic network flow optimization.
- Wrote C functions called from the MEX interface of MATLAB.
- Wrote a highly optimized Djikstras shortest path algorithm in C and bound it into MATLAB—it was over 100X faster than the MATLAB equivalent.
Technologies: PostGres, JavaScript, Bash, C, UNIX, JSP, MATLAB, Python
