I am a very strange individual, to say the least. I'm a "1.5"-generation American;
meaning that I was born in New York City, however, I also spent the first 6 years of my life in
Cortina D'Ampezzo, Belluno, Italy,
where my family is originally from. I'm also
a first generation Computer Scientist. I'm technically trilingual, although
the only language I'm truly comfortable in nowadays is English (and C, Java and so forth of course ;))
I'm a gamer at heart and I've logged thousands of hours
in various video games ever since getting my hands on a
Nintendo 64 at age 4.
I play all sorts of video games ranging from DotA 2 and League of Legends, to
Kerbal Space Program, PAYDAY 2 (a recent favorite) all the way to
Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare. I'm mainly a PC gamer, but I also enjoy consoles
from time to time.
I love working on interesting projects! In the past few years,
I've traveled across the USA and attended many hackathons, including:
- HackMIT 2013
- HackMIT 2014*
- MHacks IV
- PennApps X
*A few friends at Wisconsin and I teamed up to solve HackMIT's puzzle for guaranteed
admission and free travel,
CatMIT! It was a blast, we were one of just a few teams to solve it, and we had a great time at HackMIT 2014.
**Update: We also just did the same thing for HackMIT 2015! We were re-invited to attend, but were not able to make it.
I also helped organize MadHacks 2015, UW's first national hackathon! We got some coverage from the CS department for the year that we spent making this event a reality.
Not only am I a graduate student here at Wisconsin, but I also had the pleasure of doing my undergrad here.
Graduate:
Spring 2016
Undergraduate
- CS 302: Intro to Programming
- CS 367: Data Structures and Algorithms
- ECE/CS 352: Digital Systems Fundamentals
- CS/ECE 354: Machine Organization and Basic Systems
- CS 540: Artificial Intelligence
- CS 536: Programming Languages and Compilers
- CS 537: Operating Systems
- CS 577: Algorithms
- CS 640: Computer Networks
- CS 642: Computer Security
- Math 240: Discrete Mathematics
- Math 221/222/234: Calculus I, II, III
- Math 340: Elementary Matrix and Linear Algebra
To those not familiar with Wisconsin's CS course nomenclature:
- -500/600 level "intro" courses are capstone undergrad / beginning grad courses.
- -700/800 level courses are core graduate courses
- -An up-to-date description of all courses can be found here: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/courses/list
I was formerly an Undergraduate Research Assistant at UW-Madison.
More info will be forthcoming, but here is the gist of my research experience:
From September 2014 to May 2015, I've been working with
Prof. Tom Ristenpart
, Prof. Mike Swift, and
Adam Everspaugh
on Swiftbuffer. Swiftbuffer is a continuation of previous work,
Not So Random Numbers
by Everspaugh et al, which created a new and more secure RNG for the Linux Kernel.
Although more secure, it was not quite efficient enough to make it into the kernel -
as it was not built upon being incredibly efficient. We're working to improve this to
hopefully get accepted as an official Linux Kernel patch!
In Summer 2014, I worked with
Prof. Karu Sankaralingam
on a project to port CPU code to the GPU with minimal programmer involvement.
We submitted our findings to ASPLOS 2015
- although I can't distribute the paper,
if you are interested, shoot me an email! I may be able to get you a copy. Regardless,
I'm almost always up for a chat.
My industry experience spans across many different fields including customer service, IT, networking, and software engineering which is my primary field of focus.
A detailed description of all of my relevant positions can be found in my resume.
Here is a rough list of my positions:
- Post-Grad: Software Engineer at Riot Games (July 2017 and on)
- Summer 2016: Software Engineering Intern at Riot Games
- Summer 2015: Software Engineer Intern at Visa
- Fall 2013: Mobile Game Developer at UW-Madison
- Summer 2013: Web Applications Developer at Wisconsin School of Business
- August 2012 - May 2013: Network Technician (Tier 3 TS) at UW-River Falls
- August 2011 - February 2012: Tier 1 Technical Support at AT&T