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General Information

Full Name Arjun Parthasarathy
Date of Birth 8 June 2005
Languages English, Spanish, Tamil

Education

  • 2023-2027
    BA
    Columbia University, New York, NY
    • Double major in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
    • I.I. Rabi Scholar

Experience

  • July 2024-October 2024
    Research Assistant
    HazyResearch, Stanford AI Lab, Stanford University
    • Building ML systems
    • ThunderKittens':' GPU primitives for fast ML kernels
      • Created tile support at all levels of GPU memory heirarchy for complex number computatiohn
      • Created long-convolution FFT kernel
  • Nov 2023-Present
    Research Assistant
    Zuckerman Institute for Mind, Brain, and Behavior
    • Meta-learning synaptic plasticity to model odor pathways in piriform cortex
    • Previously':' Analyzing connectivity between mossy fiber (MF) and granule cell (GrC) layers in the cerebellum
  • 2021-2023
    Research Assistant
    Autonomous Networks Research Group, University of Southern California
    • First author of three research papers on the optimal partitioning, placement, and robust deployment of deep neural networks across clusters of low-resource edge devices
    • Designed custom Kubernetes cluster with multi-node fault tolerance, tested on up to 50 nodes and devices w/ 128 to 512 MB RAM

Honors and Awards

Academic Interests

  • Machine Learning
    • Building ML systems at the hardware layer to accelerate computation
    • Running ML on edge systems. See publications
  • Neuroscience
    • Building a mathematical understanding of the brain
    • Applying biological models of computation to machine learning applications

Other Interests