I'm a second year Electrical Engineering and Computer Science major at UC Berkeley. I'm currently working on the Spark cluster computing project at the Berkeley AMPLab.
In the past I've interned in the Core Systems team at Facebook and at the Microsoft Research eXtreme Computing Group.
I graduated from Interlake High School, where I enjoyed being part of the Gifted High School Program (PRISM).
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Work
| UC Berkeley AMPLab | Berkeley, CA |
| Undergraduate Research Assistant | September 2010 to present |
Built Bagel, a distributed graph processing framework implementing the Pregel programming model, in Scala. Presented a poster at the AMPLab summer 2011 retreat, and coauthored a Berkeley EECS technical report.
| Palo Alto, CA | |
| Software Engineer Intern | May to August 2011 |
Added network usage tracking and limit enforcement to Facebook's cluster manager using C++.
| Microsoft Research | Redmond, WA |
| Research Intern | June to August 2010 |
Built CloudClustering, a scalable clustering algorithm on the Windows Azure cloud, for Microsoft Research's eXtreme Computing Group (XCG) using C#. Published a paper that appeared at DataCloud 2011.
| Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University | Cambridge, MA |
| Summer Intern | July to August 2009 |
Added email alert functionality to the Berkman Center's crowdsourced censorship detection web application, HerdictWeb, using Java Servlets on Apache Tomcat.
Other
In 11th grade, I did some research into distributed genetic algorithms applied to the Boggle word game, to satisfy my curiosity about the single Boggle board with the most words packed into it. This turned into a software project called DistBoggle, and a paper called "Optimizing Boggle Boards: An Evaluation of Parallelizable Techniques."
In 9th grade, I wrote a game called "Hunt the Wumpus 3D," leading a team of six AP Computer Science students for Microsoft's annual Hunt the Wumpus competition.
I loved playing XPilot back in fifth grade (2003), and my favorite map was "Nuke Dark Hell" – a remake of the standard New Dark Hell map, but with a bunch of item concentrators that churned out hundreds of missiles and mines... the perfect recipe for nukes! Nuke Dark Hell seems to have disappeared, so I remade it (and set up a server running it at xpilot.ankurdave.com). Here's the map: NukeDH 1.6 for XPilot.