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General Information
Full Name | Ellis L. Brown, II |
Location | Pittsburgh, PA |
Education
- 2023
M.S. in Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
- Advised by Professors Deepak Pathak and Alexei Efros.
- 2020
Non-Degree Graduate Student, Computer Science
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
- 2019
Non-Degree Graduate Student, Computer Science
Columbia University, New York, NY
- 2017
B.S. in Computer Science; B.A. in Mathematics
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
- Advised by Professor Maithilee Kunda.
Experience
- 2020 - 2021
Research Engineer
BlackRock AI Labs, Palo Alto, CA
- Advised by Professors Mykel Kochenderfer, Stephen Boyd, and Trevor Hastie.
- Worked on applied research projects to transform BlackRock's business using Machine Learning, Statistics, and Optimization.
- 2018 - 2019
- 2017
Software Engineer
BlackRock, New York, NY
- 2016
Software Engineering Intern
BlackRock, New York, NY
Open Source Projects
- 2021
JuliaFirstOrder/{PiecewiseQuadratics.jl, SeparableOptimization.jl}
- Co-authored Julia packages for solving the problem of minimizing a sum of piecewise-quadratic functions subject to affine equality constraints via a derivative of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM).
- Formed the JuliaFirstOrder organization.
- 2017
amdegroot/ssd.pytorch
- Co-authored the canonical PyTorch implementation of the Single Shot MultiBox Detector, a real-time object detection framework using a single network, 3 months after PyTorch's alpha release.
Honors and Awards
- 2021
- Scholar, Computer Science Research Mentorship Program, Google Research
- Scholar, Lighting the Pathways to Faculty Careers for Natives in STEM, American Indian Science & Engineering Society (AISES)
- 2019
- 2nd Place, Graduate Student Research Competition, AISES National Conference
Scholarship
- 2023 - 2028
- GEM PhD Full Fellowship, sponsored by Adobe Research
- 2021 - Pres.
- Intel Growing the Legacy Graduate Scholarship
- Osage Nation Higher Education Graduate Scholarship
- 2013 - 2017
- Osage Nation Higher Education Undergraduate Scholarship
Other Interests
- Hobbies: water polo, skiing, kitesurfing (learning); Formula 1; eating/cooking delicious food.