A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya
Founding Engineer Intern, ML
Built production music ML systems that support more than 1 million songs.

Founding Engineer Intern, ML at A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya.
UIUC Computer Science, May 2027.
Founding Engineer Intern, ML
Built production music ML systems that support more than 1 million songs.

Compiler Researcher
Accelerated a compiler critical path by 51 times.
Featured Systems Work

Improved MoE forward-pass speed by approximately 1.3 times against the ragged-dot baseline.
Built a decoder-only Transformer and a fused MoE projection kernel in JAX and Pallas.

Raised throughput by 1.3 to 1.6 times and lowered latency by 15 to 20 percent.
Built a draft-and-verify runtime for standard and Speculative2 decoding with Qwen3 models.

Reduced matmul latency by 10 to 13 percent and changed decode complexity from O(T^2) to O(T).
Optimized GPT-2 inference on an NVIDIA A40 with CUDA kernels and KV caching.

Supported more than 1,200 AI-assisted edits for more than 50 alpha users.
Built a VS Code-based agentic IDE with multi-agent execution, indexing, review, and observability.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Studies computer science with a focus on systems, architecture, and machine learning.
Contact
Send me an email about AI infrastructure, systems, or ambitious products.
ishaan6@illinois.edu