KANIKA SOOD

■ **** Charlotte Pike, Apt A* ■ Nashville, TN 37209 ■ 541-***-**** ■ k ac63w3@r.postjobfree.com EDUCATION

University of Oregon, O regon, USA June 2019 (Expected) PhD, Computer and Information Science GPA 3.77 (Scale of 4) Advisor: Boyana Norris

Title: Solver suggestion techniques for large sparse linear systems University of Oregon, O regon, USA S ep 2012 - Jun 2014 M.S. Computer and Information Science GPA 3.70 (Scale of 4) Mody Institute of Technology & Science, Rajasthan, India A ug 2007- May 2011 B.Tech, Computer Science GPA 8.23 (Scale of 10)

R ELEVANT COURSES

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Compiler Design, Database Processing, Database Issues, Graph Theory, Automata Theory, Introduction to Logic, Algorithms & Complexity, Distributed Systems TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: Python, C, C++, Java, MySQL Web Technologies: HTML, XML, JavaScript, PHP Tools: Eclipse, Netbeans, Coq Databases: MySQL, DBVisualizer, DB2, phpMyAdmin PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

● Argonne National Lab, S ubcontract intern Jun 2018- Sep 2018

● Argonne National Lab, G ivens Associate Jun 2017- Sep 2017 Develop methodology for analyzing revision control and issue tracking data to estimate productivity and analyse ECP projects. Develop new productivity metrics and test them on multiple projects. Generate estimates of effort and productivity improvement or degradation over a given time period.

● Schlumberger, R EMS Intern, Software Technology Innovation Center J un 2016- Sep 2016 Identify and understand I/O pattern in the tomography application for the equation solver module. Set up the environment for the tomography application on Google cloud Storage. Design and run benchmark for serial and parallel evaluation of GCS performance from C++. Rewrite the read pattern for the application using C++ API for GCS. Quantify network latency and bandwidth.

● University of Oregon, R esearch Assistant, High Performance Computation Lab S ep 2014- Present Design and build performance model for optimal numerical method selection for large sparse linear systems for Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computing (PETSc). Model the convergence behavior and the communication overhead for parallel Krylov methods to make solver recommendations.

● University of Oregon, I nstructor, Computer & Information Science J un 2014- Sep 2014 C ourse: F luency with Information Technology (CIS 110)

● University of Oregon, T eaching Assistant S ep 2012- Jun 2014 Courses: O bject Oriented Programming, Intro. to Programming and Problem Solving, Fluency with Information Technology, Python Programming

● SPICE, V olunteer J an 2017 - Present

● Thinkersmith, WICS, University of Oregon, V olunteer Nov 2013 - Present

● IIT Delhi, I ndia, S ummer I ntern Jul 2013 - Sep 2013

● IBM, India, A ssociate Systems Engineer J un 2011- Aug 2012 Secure digital distribution of movie content for the first time in Indian theaters via satellite. Development server testing and sanity testing for cinema modules. T ranslated business functionalities into technical solutions and worked with vendor and portal developers for technical implementation. Partnered with Bharti sales teams for product demonstrations to Bharti’s prospective customers.

● NTPC Ltd., India, I ntern May 2010- Jul 2010 PAPER PUBLICATIONS

● Comparative Performance Modeling of Parallel Preconditioned Krylov Methods IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) Dec 2017.

● Solver Schemes for Linear Systems, C omprehensive Position Paper, University of Oregon Dec 2016.

● Performance-based numerical solver selection in the Lighthouse framework. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing Mar 2016.

● Lighthouse: An automated solver selection tool. Software Engineering for High Performance Computing in Computational Science and Engineering (SEHPCCSE) Nov 2015.

● Lighthouse: A taxonomy-based solver selection tool. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Software Engineering for Parallel Systems (SEPS) Oct 2015.

● Automated Selection of Numerical Solvers. Technical Report, University of Oregon Oct 2015. POSTER PUBLICATIONS

● Iterative Solver Selection Techniques for Sparse Large Systems, ICPP 2018, Eugene, Oregon Aug 2018 [Coming up]

● Comparative Performance Modeling of Parallel Preconditioned Krylov Methods, P etsc User Meeting 2017, Boulder, Colorado June 2017 [ Petsc User Meeting Poster ]

● Maximizing Usability and Performance in Numerical Software, S IAM-CSE 2017, Georgia, Atlanta March 2017 [S IAM Poster 2017]

● Automating Sparse Linear Solver Selection with Lighthouse, Supercomputing 2015, Austin, Texas November 2015 [S upercomputing Poster 2015]

● Automating Sparse Linear Solver Selection, S ystems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH), Pittsburgh October 2015 [ SPLASH Poster 2015]

● Machine Learning Approaches for Linear Solver Selection, ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC) Oregon June 2015 [H PDC Poster 2015]

PROJECTS

● Matrix-free approach for selecting iterative Krylov methods Sep 2017 - Present The Krylov solution of the linearized system is computed by using approximations of matrix-vector products based only on the function computing the current discretized solution approximation at each grid point. Because there is no explicit matrix, it is impossible to compute most of the features used in our ML-based solver selection. Hence, a different set of features must be defined and computed for matrix-free approaches. We present initial results using features based on matrix-free eigenvalue approximation, infinity norm, and structural problem features.

● Comparative Performance Modeling of Parallel Krylov Methods F eb 2 017 - Sep 2017 Comparing the scalability of parallel Krylov methods given different input properties without requiring extensive empirical measurements. We consider the PETSc implementations of Newton-Krylov methods to produce scalability rankings based on our new comparative modeling approach. The model-based ranking is validated by comparison with empirical scalability results on a numerical simulation of driven fluid flow in a cavity.

● Happiness Detection Project J an 2017 - Feb 2017 Face detection followed by smile detection was applied in MATLAB for this work. President election inauguration as input to identify the happy zones in the seating areas. The inauguration photos are segmented into multiple images.

● Solver Selection in Finite Element Multiphysics Simulations F eb 2016 - Dec 2016 Defining of a new set of linear system properties, which are used as the features in the machine learning problem specification. We then apply the classification to a set of examples in the MOOSE framework, achieving high accuracy when targeting problems in the more limited domain of finite element multi-physics applications.

● PhD Directed Research Project S ep 2014 - Oct 2015 Title: A utomated selection of numerical solvers

A generalizable machine learning-based workflow for classifying arbitrary sparse linear systems using different-sized feature sets and a comparative analysis of the solver classification results for a variety of input problems belonging to different domains and various machine-learning methods, achieving up to 87% accuracy in identifying the well-performing linear solution methods in PETSc.

● Master’s Thesis Jan 2014 - Jun 2014

Title: C omparison of F unctional Dependency extraction methods and an application of DFS Given the raw data, normally looking for FD takes exponential time with respect to the number of attributes. Over the past, heuristics have been given to reduce the time using efficient algorithms. My tasks involved reviewing the algorithms and developing a more efficient algorithm.

● Database Design and Applications ( Masters course project) Developed a relational database (using MySQL), implemented advanced features like triggers etc. and web-based applications to access this database (using PHP).

● Data Classification P roject ( Masters course project) Worked on and implemented a few classic classification Machine Learning algorithms (ID3, Naïve Bayes, Logistic Regression, Perceptrons etc.) on real life data sets.

● Leveraging Natural Language Processing On Sentiment Analysis ( Masters course project) Leveraged NLTK for the purpose of sentiment analysis on user-generated product reviews using a corpus of reviews extracted from Amazon.com.

● Face Recognition System ( Bachelors course project) Took in several facial images and generated an image of the same human with a different expression using the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) technique in MATLAB. HONORS

● Served as Poster/Demo Judge, Oregon Cyber Security Day Oregon Apr 2018

● Presented at C opper Mountain Conference On Iterative Methods Colorado Mar 2018

● Best paper finalist for IEEE HPCC Thailand Dec 2017

● Awarded SC’17 Volunteer Award Colorado Nov 2017

● Awarded SC’17 Student Travel Award Colorado $600 July 2017

● Awarded PETSc User Meeting Travel Award Colorado $655 Jun 2017

● Awarded SIAM Student Travel Award Georgia $800 Feb 2017

● Served as a mentor on the BE Mentor-Protege Program at SIAM’17 Feb 2017

● Served on SC16 HPC Undergraduate program panel SC’16 Utah Nov 2016

● Awarded 2016 Intern Video Competition Winner Schlumberger Aug 2016

● Awarded Erwin and Gertrude Juilfs Scholarship $1,000 Jun 2016

● Awarded SE4SCIENCE travel grant Texas $500 May 2016

● Awarded Graduate Research Fellowship Sep’14 - Present

● Awarded UO Work-Study Award Oregon Jun 2013

● Awarded Graduate Teaching Fellowship Sep’12- Jun’14

● Certified Database Associate of IBM 2009

● Ranked in top 5% of undergraduate institution 2008-2011

● Level-1 certified in French language 2011

● Literary Head of college club, Xperia 2009-2011

● Head of college horse riding committee 2008-2011

● Third highest scorer in Board Examination (CBSE) Grade 12 and 10 2007, 2005

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