Software Engineering Intern @ Dropbox (2016)

• Researched improvements to lossless compression of H264 video
• Researched various generic compression methods for Dropbox data
• Improved Brotli compression speeds by 40% or more

Research Assistant @ MIT Gifford Lab (2013-15)

• Applied machine learning techniques to study genomics and cell state
• Used parallel computing techniques to implement fast inference methods across the entire genome

Software Engineering Intern @ Google (2013)

• Expanded Google search’s question answering system using natural language processing techniques

Research Assistant @ MIT Mathematics (2012-14)

• Investigated connections between classical and quantum mechanics by analyzing the Schrödinger operator over modified hyperbolic manifolds
• Techniques used included Bessel function analysis, asymptotic analysis, and Weyl’s law

Software Engineering Intern @ Google (2012)

• Parallelized FFmpeg’s VP8 decoder to support sliced threading.
• Researched and implemented new features in VP9

Open Source Developer @ x264, FFmpeg/Libav (2010-13)

• Optimized open source projects dealing with video encoding and decoding