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Ahmed Al- jashmi

Cell: +968-96349301 Email: [email protected]

EDUCATION Pennsylvania State Univer- sityB.S. in Economicswith a minor Eneergy Businessand FinanceAugust 2019 | State College, PACumulative GPA: 4.57/5.0 Al Muhanna Bin Sultan (High School)June 2014 | Muscat, Oman COURSEWORK High level ClassesMoney BankingMonetary PolicyLabor EconomicsAdvanced MacroeconomicsSupply Chain ManagementRegression Analysis SKILLS ProgrammingPythonStata ProductivityMicrosoft Office:ExcelWord other:Stock trading LINKS GitHub: github.com/aliz64 LinkedIn: in/aliz64 Medium: @alishanzartash

WORK EXPERIENCE State General Reserve Fund (SGRF) | Economic ResearcherJune 2018 - August 2018| Muscat, Oman • Investigate and analyze investment opportunities in emerging markets • Analyzed the factors affecting Oman’s credit rating and conceptualized a plan forimproving it. • Utilized Thomas Reuters to analyze latest economic data and models • Weekly overview presentations including oil reports, and trend changes Google | Software Engineering InternMay - August 2018 | Sunnyvale, CA • Part of the Stream Ranking & Recommendation Systems group, specifically working ongraph backend & MapReduce pipelines for GSuite social recommendations in C++. • Built topical endorsement graph Protocol Buffers and the MapReduce/Flume pipelinesneeded to compute them. Added functionality to transform graphs into "conditionallytwo-hop graphs" for improved recommendations. SpaceX | Propulsion Engineering Intern (Software)May - September 2017 | Hawthorne, CA • Part of the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) research team. • Focused on performance engineering and load distribution in C++. • Designed, implemented, & presented "A Topology-Aware Load-Distribution Framework"that mapped processes to GPUs, reducing communication bottlenecks by 30%. RESEARCH AND PROJECTS MIT Mathematics Department | Researcher (UROP)February 2019 - Present | Cambridge, MA • Working on distribution learning and density estimation under algebraic constraints. • Supervised by Dr. Elina Robeva. Interactive Robotics Group | CSAIL | Researcher (UROP)February - May 2018 | Cambridge, MA • Designed and evaluated neural networks, e.g. bidirectional LSTMs, to classify aircrafttime-series data into flight “modes” using Keras. Signal Kinetics Group | Media Lab | Researcher (UROP)January - February 2018 | Cambridge, MA • Programmed the radar circuit board attached to a drone for detecting sonar-inducedwaves on the water surface, enabling water-to-air wireless communication betweenunderwater robots and drones. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT | Researcher (UROP)September - December 2016 | Cambridge, MA • Built frameworks to transform tropical cyclone data into feature vectors. • Implemented algorithms to learn tropical cyclone wind field analytical models. ACTIVITIES & CLASS PROJECTS MIT Machine Intelligence Community | Member 2018 - PresentWorked on MIT MIC paper summary writing. Autonomous Race-car & Drone | Class Project in Robotics Spring 2018Used ROS in Python. As part of 5-person team; Won 1st place. Dynamic MITScript Compiler | Class Project in Compilers Spring 2018Used C++. Link: GitHub repository (github.com/aliz64/MITScript-compiler-cpp) MIT Department of Physics | Teaching Assistant for Electromagnetism Spring 2016