Education
- 2019 - 2024
- PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- University of California, Berkeley
- Dissertation: Feedback Driven Dynamics in Socio-Algorithmic Systems
- 2013 - 2017
- BSE, Operations Research and Financial Engineering
- Princeton University, NJ
- Summa Cum Laude
- Certificate in Applications of Computing.
- Thesis: ”Monotonically Constrained Polynomial Regression: An Application of Sum of Squares Techniques and Semidefinite Programming”.
- Winner of Procter & Gamble Prize for Outstanding Senior Thesis.
- Advisers: Amir Ali Ahmadi & Georgina Hall.
Teaching
- Fall 2021
- CS C281A. Statistical Learning Theory
- University of California, Berkeley
- Graduate Student Instructor
- Fall 2020
- DATA102/STAT102. Data, Inference, and Decisions
- University of California, Berkeley
- Graduate Student Instructor
- Recipient of Outstanding GSI Award
Work experience
- 2024 - present
- Researcher Scientist
- Meta, Menlo Part, CA
- Summer 2022
- Student Researcher
- Google Research, Mountain View, CA
- Investigated privacy-accuracy tradeoffs for recommendation systems.
- Improved performance of current techniques by leveraging non-private side information.
- 2017 - 2019
- Software Development Engineering
- Commercial Software Engineering, Microsoft, Redmond, WA
- Engaged with Azure customers, commercial partners and NGOs to prototype innovative solutions using early release Azure products, ML techniques from recent academic work and open source projects.
- Project Fizzyo
- Largest Cystic Fibrosis physiotherapy clinical trial in the UK to date aiming to quantify the impact of physical activity and evaluate the role of gamification in airway clearence treatments.
- In partnership with Great Ormond Street Hospital developed a data analysis pipeline for the breath pressure sensors attached to airways clearance devices as well as Fitbit activity trackers.
- Quantified breath and physical activity patterns of the trial participants by processing and featurizing large amount of sensor waveform data.
- Using unsupervised learning techniques identified physical and respiratory activity clusters correlating with clinical outcomes.
- Famine Early Action Mechanism
- Crisis alerting system that provides granular famine risk 6-12 month predictions, used by humanitarian aid institutions to preemptively allocate funds to communities at high risk.
- Collaborated with World Bank Famine Prevention program to build an interpretability framework that quantifies the magnitude of the risk factors
- Project under executive sponsorship of Microsoft Philanthropies.
- Prototyped Reinforcement Learning solutions for industrial scenarios, in partnership with a commercial airline and a Formula 1 race team.
- 2016
- Software Development Intern
- Microsoft, Redmond, WA
- Analyzed the CPU and memory performance of BitFunnel, Bing’s recently open-sourced, document index.
- Identified inefficiencies in Bing’s matching algorithm and proposed an optimization which was successfully implemented. Currently the end-to-end computation cost per search query have been reduced by 15%.
- Co-authored the research paper discussing BitFunnel’s performance which was be presented at the SIGIR 2017 and won Best Paper Award.
- 2015
- Software Engineering Intern
- Empirasign Strategies LLC, New York, NY
- Developed an API for programmatic ad buying, thus providing a cheaper alternative to Google AdWords.
- Converted securities data from unstructured emails and spreadsheets in tabular form.
- Worked on the automated email feature and enhanced the customization capabilities of email alerts.
Academic Distinctions
- “Best Paper Award” - SIGIR Conference, ACM, Japan, August 2017
- “Procter & Gamble Prize” - Outstanding Senior Thesis, Princeton, NJ, June 2017
- Associate Membership - Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, Princeton, NJ, June 2017
- “Undergraduate Student of the Year” - Prime Minister National Award, Moldova, December 2014
- Honorable mention - International Mathematical Olympiad, Argentina, July 2012
Service
- Reviewer for ICML (2020, 2021); NeurIPS 2021