Aishi Debroy
Swarthmore,United States
Overview
1
1
year of professional experience
Work History
Research Assistant, Human-Computer Interaction
Professor Sukrit Venkatagiri
02.2024 - Current
Grader, Intro to Computer Systems
Computer Science Department
09.2023 - Current
- Evaluated and graded students' homework, offering constructive advice and writing weekly reports to professors about common errors.
- Informed students about better debugging strategies and approaches to parallel computing, machine hardware, pointers, etc., which significantly improved performance on final exams.
Green Advisor
Office Of Sustainability
08.2023 - Current
- As a resident peer leader, assisted students to engage in sustainable living on campus and provided mentorship through weekly office hours.
- Collected and analyzed big data on campus outdoor trash system to recommend and implement solutions that minimize unnecessary waste.
Peer Mentor, Intro to HPC Bootcamp
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (NERSC)
07.2023 - 08.2023
- Provided structured lessons on Jupyter Notebooks, NumPy/Pandas, Geopandas, High-performance Computing, and navigating Supercomputers.
- Mentored six students to develop a program utilizing the ClimRR Portal and Geopandas to explore the overlap between future energy crises and vulnerable populations.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science Major, Math & English Minor
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, PA05.2026
Projects
Approximating Poisson's Equation using Finite Element Method (Python)
- Developed a Python algorithm that approximates Poisson's Equation by creating functions that calculated the grid space, basis functions and their derivatives, and piecewise linear "tent" functions for each interval.
Conway's Game of Life (C):
- Parallelized Conway's Game of Life by utilizing threading, synchronization between threads, and dynamically allocated grids.
Awards
Thomas McCabe Scholarship
- A four-year, full-tuition merit scholarship awarded to students who have "exhibited exceptional academic achievement, character, and leadership qualities."
Houlahan Senior Award
- A certificate of special congressional recognition by representative Chrissy Houlahan for good citizenship exhibited by a high school senior.
Timeline
Research Assistant, Human-Computer Interaction
Professor Sukrit Venkatagiri
02.2024 - Current
Grader, Intro to Computer Systems
Computer Science Department
09.2023 - Current
Green Advisor
Office Of Sustainability
08.2023 - Current
Peer Mentor, Intro to HPC Bootcamp
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (NERSC)
07.2023 - 08.2023
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science Major, Math & English Minor
Swarthmore College