Engineer Software

Ronak Akshay Buch

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Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois Expected May 2017

Ph.D. Computer Science

Architecture, Parallel Computing, and Systems

The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio June 2012

B.S. Computer Science and Engineering, Minor in Mathematics

Summa Cum Laude, With Honors in Engineering

Work Experience

Microsoft, Redmond, Washington Summer 2011

Software Development Engineer Intern

Developed immersive music application for demoing the C++ development process in Windows 8

Tested alpha APIs and development experience for Windows 8 applications

Software presented at 2011 BUILD Conference

Rapleaf, San Francisco, California Spring 2011

Software Engineer Intern

Modi ed Java database code to couple with Ruby s ActiveRecord

Developed education inference system based on ZIP code

Developed internal collaboration website using Ruby on Rails

MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, Massachusetts Summer 2010

Summer Research Intern

Redesigned, optimized, and parallelized weather forecasting software using PThreads and OpenMP

Conducted explorative study on porting algorithms to GPGPU systems

Science Applications International Corporation, Beavercreek, Ohio Summer 2009

Software Engineer Intern

Developed a cross-platform suite of motion imagery exploitation tools for unmanned aerial vehicles

Created and maintained virtual machine infrastructure for databases, servers, and video streams

Authored technical documentation for system administrators, end-users, and internal testing

Research Experience

Parallel Programming Laboratory August 2012 - Present

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Analyzing the Charm++ parallel runtime system on heterogeneous computing platforms

Computer Vision Laboratory October 2011 - June 2012

The Ohio State University

Designing and implementing gestural user interfaces for camera networks using Kinect

Disease Ecology and Computer Modeling Laboratory February 2009 - August 2011

The Ohio State University

Designing and implementing computer model of cow interaction on a farm to examine virus propagation

Conducted eld observation to gather data and nd computationally signi cant tasks

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Teaching Experience

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois

Teaching Assistant - CS125: Introduction to Computer Science

Skills

Languages: C#, C++, C, Java, Common Lisp, Python, Assembly, MATLAB

Classes: High-Performance Computing, Networking, Formal Languages and Automata, Databases, Programming

Languages, Numerical Methods, Computer Systems, Algorithms, Operating Systems, Lisp Programming, Shell Pro-

gramming, Discrete Mathematics, Abstract Algebra, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, Combinatorics, Calculus,

Statistics, Microeconomics

Honors, Awards, & Scholarships

Best Senior Capstone Project, 2012

Phi Kappa Phi, National Honor Society, 2010

Tau Beta Pi, National Engineering Honor Society, 2010

Ohio State Presidential Scholarship, 2008

Procter & Gamble Mathematics Scholarship, 2008

National Merit Scholar, 2008

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