Resume

Education

B.S.E. in Operations Research and Financial Engineering,

• Graduated Summa Cum Laude
• Earned a 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

Experience

Software Development Engineer

• Working on short to mid-term engagements with commercial partners, independent software vendors and NGOs on exploring cutting edge AI technologies and innovative ML applications.
• Built together with teams from Amazon, Google and the World Bank Famine Prevention program an explainable and interpretable ML pipeline for crisis prediction; such that financial aid institution can preemptively allocate funds to communities at risk. Project under executive sponsorship of Microsoft Philanthropies.
• Prototyped Reinforcement Learning frameworks for industrial scenarios, in partnership with a commercial airline and a Formula 1 race team.

Software Development Intern

• 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.

Software Engineering Intern

• 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.

Learning Consultant

• Held individual learning consultations with students, focusing on improving study habits, time management and developing master learners.
• Coordinated and attended workshops, seminars and open houses for the McGraw Center.

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

Publications

BitFunnel: Revisiting Signatures for Search

Monotonically Constrained Polynomial Regression: An Application of Sum of Squares Techniques and Semidefinite Programming

Nonnegative Polynomials and Shape Constrained Regression