anmolkabra.comAnmol• [email protected] Kabra

Education

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 2016 – 2020 B.S. in Computer Science (Honors), Applied Math Honors summa cum laude, GPA: ⒋13/⒋3, Merrill Presidential Scholar, Tata Scholar Delhi Public School, Patna, India 2004 – 2016 All India Senior School Certificate Examination Honors Class XII Board Exams: 9⒍2%, ranked 1ˢᵗ in 179 students

Publications

Anmol Kabra, Yexiang Xue, and Carla P. Gomes. 20⒚ GPU-Accelerated Principal-Agent Game for Scalable Citizen Science. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, , NY, USA, 165–17⒊ https://doi.org/10.1145/3314344.3332495

Research and Work Experience

ASAPP, Ithaca/New York City May 2019 – Present Research Engineer • Collaborate with Prof. Kilian Weinberger, 3-5 research engineers and scientists, and 2-3 interns to define dialog similarity metrics and embeddings for task-oriented dialogs in NLP.

Computational Sustainability Lab, Jun 2017 – May 2020 Research Assistant • Collaborated with Prof. Carla Gomes, and 5-10 graduate students in designing machine learning models and pipelines for interdisciplinary research problems. • Developed new deep-neural-network-based models to reduce sampling bias in large-scale citizen science programs. The models learned citizens’ behavior and distributed rewards >800x faster compared to the previous state of the art without losing perfor- mance. • Designed encoder-decoder networks to learn representations of chemical elements, aiming to expedite simulations for discovering new materials for fuel cells. • Delivered oral and poster presentations at multiple conferences, exhibitions, and consortia: – Published and presented at the ACM COMPASS 2019 conference. – Gave oral and poster presentations at Computational Sustainability Doctoral Consortia in 2018 and 20⒚ – Presented posters at the 2019 Cornell CIS BOOM project showcase and the 2019 Undergraduate Research Symposium at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dept. of Civil Engineering, IIT, Guwahati Jul 2013 – Aug 2013 Research Intern • Collaborated with Prof. Ajay Kalamdhad and 4 high school students to study the feasibility of Waste-to-Energy conversion techniques in Patna, India. • Collected waste om IIT campus and conducted chemical composition experiments to estimate energy output feasibility. • Presented proposals to Patna’s Municipal Corporation and Bihar’s Chief Minister. • Project was recognized by India’s Prime Minister, and was featured in a national event aired live on TV. anmolkabra.com/docs/cv-anmolkabra.pdf Updated June 14, 2020 Teaching Experience

Cornell University Teaching Assistant • CS 4850: Mathematical Foundations of the Information Age (Outstanding TA Award) Spring 2019, Spring 2020 Managed course logistics, ran exam review sessions, answered student questions, and graded exams and assignments. • CS 3220: Computational Mathematics for Computer Science Fall 2019 Answered student questions, evaluated group projects, and graded exams and assignments. • CS 3110: Data Structures and Functional Programming (Outstanding TA Award) Fall 2018, Spring 2018 Taught biweekly discussion sections, evaluated group projects, and graded exams and assignments. • CS 2800: Discrete Structures Fall 2017 Answered student questions, and graded exams and assignments.

Honors and Scholarships

• Merrill Presidential Scholar, Cornell University 2020 Recognized among 30 outstanding graduates of 2020, among top 1% of Cornell’s graduating class. • Young Researcher, Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation, Heidelberg 2019 Selected among 200 young researchers worldwide to attend the Forum, and will be featured among “10 out of 200” researchers. • Scholarship Award and Top-10% Performer, ACM Summer School on HPC for AI and Dedicated Applications, Barcelona 2019 Received scholarship to attend the Summer School; youngest participant; adjudged outstanding among ≈ 50 students. • Statistics Award & Sponsor Award by Air Liquide, BOOM, Cornell CIS, Cornell University 2019 Received 2 out of 13 awards for poster on undergraduate research project. • Outstanding Poster Presenter, Ivy League Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Pennsylvania 2019 • Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, Cornell University 2018- Inducted in the national honor society for outstanding academic performance in college. • Telluride Scholarship, 2017-20 Received Room and Board scholarship at Cornell University. • Dean’s List, Cornell University 2016-20 • Tata Scholarship, Cornell University 2016-19 Received full scholarship to attend Cornell University, covering tuition, room and boarding, and miscellaneous expenses. • National Talent Search Scholarship, NCERT, Govt. of India 2015-16 • Honored by Bihar’s Governor, Ram Nath Kovind, for achievements in middle-high school 2015 • Live video conference with India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India 2015 Selected among 9 students nationwide to interact with India’s Prime Minister. • 2ⁿᵈ position, Technothlon, Techniche, IIT, Guwahati 2014 Team of 2 placed 2ⁿᵈ across India, among a competition of 1000+ teams. • Child Scientist, IIT, Kharagpur, Dept. of Science & Technology, Govt. of India 2013 Project on Waste-to-Energy conversion adjudged among top 20 in 1000+ projects nationwide. • Honored by Bihar’s Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar, for detailed project on reviving local roads 2012 Team’s proposal influenced Patna’s Municipal Corporation to pave local artery roads near city’s slums. • High Distinction in Australian National Chemistry Quiz, Royal Australian Chemical Institute 2010-14

anmolkabra.com/docs/cv-anmolkabra.pdf Updated June 14, 2020 Selected Projects

Xi Compiler, CS 4120 Project Jan 2019 – May 2019 Access: github.com/BlueFire2/xic • Built a compiler in Java (10k+ LoC, spent 40-50 hr/wk) for the Xi language in a team of ⒋ Automated the build-run-test pipelines for quick development, and led unit and end-to-end testing, while contributing significantly to GDB debugging. • Programmed generic and modular ameworks for Dataflow Analysis and Compiler Optimizations, thus reducing code redun- dancy and improving extensibility. The ameworks supported ≈ 100-LoC implementations of various Analyses (Live Variable, Available Expressions) and Optimizations (Dead Code Elimination, Common Subexpression Elimination).

A Modular Approach to Optimal Hybrid Bus Allocation for TCAT, CMCM Nov 2017 Access: anmolkabra.com/docs/cmcm-fa17-report.pdf • Competed in a team of 3 in Cornell Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CMCM), a 3-day modeling hackathon, to study optimal allocation of hybrid buses in Ithaca. • Designed approximation algorithms and simulations to reduce bus operators fuel expenditure and vehicle emissions on multiple bus routes, factoring in regenerative braking, changes in elevation, and operation times.

Activities/Service

Association of Computer Science Undergraduates, Cornell University Aug 2017 – Dec 2019 Research Lead • Managed research initiatives for undergrads at Cornell CS Department, working with faculty, staff, and 10+ ACSU officers to introduce undergrads to CS research. Some examples of initiatives: research talks by undergrads, reading groups, poster sessions. • Organized general-body meetings, faculty lunches, and introductory CS workshops.

Telluride House, Cornell University Jan 2017 – Jun 2020 President, Chair of Admissions Committee, Housemember • Led and delegated house functions (maintenance, chores, admissions) to committees. Restructured committees and finances with reduced budget during COVID-19, and assisted 10+ house members with evacuation and house work. • Led Admissions Committee, and coordinated 100+ application readings and evaluation meetings with 20+ house members. Chaired admission meetings and worked with Telluride Association staff to recruit future house members. • Automated tabulation in Telluride Association’s summer program application management system in Spring 2018, saving more than 100 hrs of annual manpower. Used Google APIs to tabulate, filter, and transfer reading responses to master spreadsheets.

Cornell Cup Robotics Team, Cornell University Feb 2017 – Dec 2017 CS Sub-team Lead for SwarmBot-MiniBot • Spearheaded the SwarmBot concept in a team of 5 and MiniBot project in a team of 30+ students, employing graduate-level Systems Engineering tools. SwarmBot-MiniBot was featured by Cornell Engineering in World Maker Faire 20⒘ • Implemented inter-robot networking and robot-discoverability in MiniBots using abstractions of TCP/IP and UDP.

Hobbies I like to play table tennis, hike, bike, follow motorsports (especially Formula 1), and read non-fiction books.

anmolkabra.com/docs/cv-anmolkabra.pdf Updated June 14, 2020