S. Rosen - CV

Education


Duke University
Aug. 2021 --
Phd Student, Statistics
University of Massachusetts: Amherst
May, 2021
B.S. in Computer Science; B.S. in Mathematics
GPA: 3.9/4.0

Work Experience


Cruise
Summer 2022

Machine Learning Acceleration Intern

  • Added robust standard error calculations to internal simulation metrics.
  • Implemented Kernel Density Estimation and Bandwidth Selection for automatically analyzing performance degradation.
Genentech
Summer 2021

Research and Development Intern

  • Lead development of epiviz.gl, a JS framework for visualizing genomic data with WebWorkers and WebGL.
  • Developed data selection, rendering, navigation with a pseudo grammar-of-graphics implementation.
Datadog
Sept. - Dec. 2020

Software Engineering Intern (Cloud Integrations team)

  • Optimized and bolstered Azure crawlers responsible for crawling millions of data points an hour.
  • Debugged and implemented fixes for issues found by customers in production for crawled metrics.
DraftKings
Summer 2019

DevOps Intern

  • Created a scalable application for live tracking of release branches to production using AWS Lambda.
  • Designed serverless architecture scalable to arbitrary codebase size with complete up-to-date release data.
  • Designed DynamoDB schema and frontend with React for a responsive efficient API and user interface.
Johns Hopkins University: Applied Physics Lab
Summer 2018/2017

Software Engineering Intern (Large-scale analytics group)

  • Developed graph analytics using Java and functional programming with Gremlin for compliant graph databases.
  • Programmed low-memory implementations of machine learning algorithms for training on arbitrarily large data.
  • Created analytics for graph multi-edge merging, time-series, and data fusion using Java and MapReduce.
  • Developed random forest algorithm on a distributed data system for classifying attributes on graph vertices.
General Dynamics Mission Systems
Summer 2016

Software Engineering Intern

  • Worked with a partner to build a microservice acting as a REST backend to serve PDF’s with Spring.
  • Created a service to read generated reports through a REST API on a dynamic front-end with React.

Teaching Experience


Duke Masters' Boot Camp (Instructor)
Fall 2023
Duke STA313 (TA)
Spring 2023
  • Developed material/guest lecturer as part of BASS Connections
Duke STA198L (TA)
Fall 2022
Duke STA663L (TA)
Spring 2022
UMass MATH331 (Grader)
Spring 2020
UMass MATH127 (UGTA)
Sept. 2018 - May 2019

Skills and Interests


Selected Projects


  • Developed for Genentech (advised by: Jayaram Kancherla) to visualize genomic data seamlessly via declarative specifications and WebGL.
  • Designed to visualize millions of data points and entire chromosomes at 60 FPS with high precision.
  • Created a no-dependency package to make asynchronous logging easy with a highly customizable API.
  • Published on PyPI with complete test code coverage, continuous integration, and extensive documentation.
  • Completed semester long project researching the NP-HARD problem of the most efficient way to pack circles.
  • Formulated an algorithm which packs circles in linear time achieving competitive densities near 70 percent.