Ishana Garuda
computational researcher & ML engineer
Hi, I'm Ishana. An applied NLP, High Performance Computing developer, and researcher in Machine Learning and Data Science. I enjoy building efficient models and optimizing systems.
Recent grad from Virginia Tech with a B.S. in Computational Modeling and Data Analytics, with minors in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, and Quantum Information Technology.
Recent Work
3D Heat Equation Simulation
C • CUDA • OpenGL • Nsight
Resume
education
B.S. Computational Modeling and Data Analytics
Virginia Tech, May 2025
Minors: Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Quantum Information Technology
current role
Research Assistant — Dr. Jason Wilson, Virginia Tech CMDA
Jan 2025 — Present
Developing GPU-accelerated data reduction methods (CUDA), achieving 8.5x speedup on NVIDIA V100