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
- Developed extensive original material
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
- Programming Languages: Python***, Java***, JavaScript***, C/Cpp**, Matlab*, Scala*, R*,, WebGL*
- Related Technologies: Linux, Git, React, Redux, HTML/CSS, Node.js, Gremlin, NumPy, Maven, JUnit, MySQL, libGDX, PIL, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, D3.js, THREE.js, C# Make, OpenGL
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.