Scaling the "Memory Wall" with Compute Express Link (CXL), Near Data Processing (NDP), and Disaggregated Memory under Prof. Ada Gavrilovska

• Teaching Assistant for a course with over 600 students per semester

• Helping students understand concepts such as Dynamic Programming, Kruskal's Algorithm, and Binary Search Trees

• https://www.najafilab.org/people

• Utilizing Georgia Tech's High-Performance Super-Computing Cluster to build Convolutional Neural Networks to track mouse pupil dilation throughout experiments to track correlation between neurons firing in the brain and eye motor skills

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBfNLS3YZrk

• Redesigned data collection pipeline to increase efficiency in data cleaning resulting into a dataset of over 1,000,000 points from 32,000.

• Presented final research project at Atlanta Science and Technology Fair to over 4000 people

• Utilizing XGBoost, OpenCV, and Google MediaPipe for predicting a pixel on a TV screen a person is pointing to from 6 feet away at 97.84% accuracy

Summer 2026