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Personal Details
Name: Omkar Bhalerao
Major: Computer Science and Mathematics
Year in Cornell & Expected graduation date: Senior, December 2023 (MEng in May 2024)
Relevant classes: CS 2112 (TAed), CS 3110, CS 4820 (TAed), CS 4780, CS 3410, CS 6820, CS 4120 (TAed), CS 4220, CS 4850, CS 4410, CS 4740, CS 4775, CS 6110, CS 4830, CS 6120, CS 6810, CS 4787
Interested in continuing research during the summer? Potentially; however, I am definitely interested in continuing to pursue this as an MEng student next semester.
Expertise (languages/frameworks/etc.): Java, Kotlin, Python, C/C++, OCaml, Git, Bash, Jupyter
Research
When do you want to do research? I would like to do research as an extracurricular during the Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 semesters.
What is exciting to you about research? After learning and getting very excited about compilers and programming languages in classes like CS 4120 (for which my team won the class-wide bakeoff) and CS 6110 (and after growing unsatisfied with the state of machine learning research, which I was involved with at the time), I realized that I would like to explore what people are working on with the research side of this field. I really enjoy working with compilers and would love to be involved with improving the field as a whole, either by improving compilers or by creating new compilers for different use cases. I'm currently taking CS 6120 to continue to further my knowledge and hope to apply the skills I learn through the class and potential research to PL- and compilers-related roles in industry, and perhaps a PhD a few years down the line.
What kind of research do you want to do? Out of the work described in Capra, the hardware accelerator projects seem the most interesting to me; however, I'd be willing to work on any PL- or compiler-related project; I'd like to explore the field.
Background
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Was there a paper that particularly excited you? (This doesn't have to be a paper from our group.)
The PDL paper from Andrew Myers' research group excited me quite a bit; though I did not fully understand every detail of the paper, I was quite excited by the fact that all the concepts I learned in my compilers and programming language design classes could be used at a lower level to help design and speed up hardware, which is something that I personally find quite interesting and would love to explore further.
Which of the current research projects would you be interested in working on and why?
As alluded to in the description of the previous paper, I'd be interested in any of the projects under the hardware accelerator generation umbrella. These ideas of using compilers and designing programming languages to directly help design and speed up hardware is a field that I would love to look into and explore further. Calyx in particular is a project that I would like to join.
Anything else you want to tell us about yourself?
I was involved in machine learning research at Cornell through CUAI from fall 2020 until spring 2023, when I decided to leave the group to explore other research interests of mine (specifically in programming languages and compilers). Through it, I successfully helped publish a paper at NeurIPS 2021.
As an unrelated point, since I'll be pursuing an MEng next semester, if I do join a project this semester, I would like to continue that into next semester as an MEng project.
Attach a CV/Resumé Omkar Bhalerao Resume.pdf