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M.S. in Computer Science

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

• Advised by Professors Deepak Pathak and Alexei Efros.

Non-Degree Graduate Student, Computer Science

Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Non-Degree Graduate Student, Computer Science

Columbia University, New York, NY

B.S. in Computer Science; B.A. in Mathematics

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

• Advised by Professor Maithilee Kunda.

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.

ML Engineer

BlackRock AI Labs, New York, NY

• Founding team member

Software Engineer

BlackRock, New York, NY

Software Engineering Intern

BlackRock, New York, NY

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.

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.

• 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)

• 2nd Place, Graduate Student Research Competition, AISES National Conference

• GEM PhD Full Fellowship, sponsored by Adobe Research

• Intel Growing the Legacy Graduate Scholarship
• Osage Nation Higher Education Graduate Scholarship

• Osage Nation Higher Education Undergraduate Scholarship