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Personal Details
Name: Benjamin Bigdelle
Major: Computer Science
Year in Cornell & Expected graduation date: Junior, expected graduated Spring 2025
Relevant classes: CS4820, CS3110, ECE3140, CS2800, CS2110
Interested in continuing research during the summer? Yes
Expertise (languages/frameworks/etc.): Java, C#, Python,
Research
When do you want to do research? (Researchers can get involved during the semester as an "extracurricular", equivalent to a 3-4 credit class, or get more involved over the summer as a full-time job.) I am interested in pursuing research over this fall and upcoming spring semester.
What is exciting to you about research? (How did you get interested in it? What are you hoping to get out it?) This summer, I completed my second Software Engineering internship at Microsoft, and while I learned a lot, it made me consider my future in CS more seriously. The work itself was interesting, but didn't require deep problem solving abilities. I realized that I love to learn, and pursuing a future PhD and career in academia may be the most enriching path I can imagine for myself. Through this research, I hope to be able to take on challenging problems that push the horizons of my education, and learn from the PhD students in the lab about their work. This would be a fantastic way for me to explore what it would take and be like to get a PhD.
What kind of research do you want to do? I'm interested in exploring! I am open to any opportunities.
Background
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Was there a paper that particularly excited you? I am very excited by the the paper on the advancements in CNN accelerators and the potential to improve real-time computer vision tasks. The idea of leveraging temporal redundancy to enhance efficiency resonates with my interest in optimizing computational resources. Some of the most energized and excited I've been in classes is when we've been tasked with using our technical abilities to enhance the runtime and computational efficiency of tasks. For me, finding these areas of potential of computational improvement is an exciting and challenging task that provides an appreciable benefit to the quality of some system.
Being involved in such work would not only align with my passion for deep learning and computer vision but also provide an opportunity to contribute to the development of more efficient and responsive visual systems. Identifying inefficiencies in current computational methods and rectifying them represents the future of adaptive computing, and I am eager to be a part of this transformative journey
Which of the current research projects would you be interested in working on and why? I am interested in being involved in the Gator project. Having extensively used numpy for representing vectors and transformations, I've firsthand experienced the challenges of working with vectors. Mismatched dimensions can lead to unexpected errors, and this publication's focus on the intricacies of coordinate systems in graphics programming resonates with my experiences. The practicality of the project is evident, especially when considering the real-world implications of geometric errors in rendering. The introduction of tools like Gator, which aim to mitigate such errors, aligns with my passion for ensuring accuracy and efficiency in computational tasks. I'm eager to delve deeper into this domain, leveraging my background to contribute to the ongoing advancements in graphics programming.
Anything else you want to tell us about yourself? While I'm predominantly interested in the projects that I outlined above, I would love to be involved in any project where I can be most helpful.
Attach a CV/Resumé Ben_Bigdelle_Resume.pdf