Lukas Velikov
I'm currently working at the D. E. Shaw Group as a systems engineer. Feel free to get in touch with me—my email address can be accessed via the contact button below.
Timeline
Attained Extra Class Amateur Radio License March 2022
The top US license class, granting all privileges on all US amateur bands.
The top US license class, granting all privileges on all US amateur bands.
Kernel Machine Learning Technical Report Posted November 2021
"KML: Using Machine Learning to Improve Storage Systems" was posted on arXiv. View the GitHub project.
"KML: Using Machine Learning to Improve Storage Systems" was posted on arXiv. View the GitHub project.
Joined the D. E. Shaw Group August 2021
Joined the D. E. Shaw Group's infrastructure team as a systems engineer. Learn more about the D. E. Shaw Group.
Joined the D. E. Shaw Group's infrastructure team as a systems engineer. Learn more about the D. E. Shaw Group.
First Paper Co-Authorship July 2021"A Machine Learning Framework to
Improve
Storage System Performance" was published in Proceedings of the 13th ACM Workshop on Hot
Topics
in Storage and File Systems.
Graduated from Stony Brook University May 2021Undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, with specialization in privacy and security.
Advanced to NYBPC Finals April 2021Cognito, an IoT device designed to prevent cognitive impairment resulting from poor air quality,
advanced to the New York Business Plan Competition finals.
TA, Computational Geometry Fall 2020One of the most interesting and practical classes offered in the AMS/CSE curriculum.
Joined the File Systems and Storage Lab at Stony Brook University Summer
2020The FSL group performs research in operating systems
with
focus on file systems, storage, security, and networking.
Summer Internship at the D. E. Shaw Group Summer 2020Pandemic edition. Joined as an SRE and infrastructure engineering intern.
TA, Systems Fundamentals II Spring 2020Spent many days (and a few nights) tutoring students and writing automated test cases for
assignments.
Winter Internship at the D. E. Shaw Group Winter 2019Proud to be the department's first "winter-n". Joined as a web engineering intern.
Stony Brook Computing Society 2019As secretary of SBCS, I organized a hackathon and
spoke for the (binary) trees
in the SBCS Lorax boat.
Summer Internship at the D. E. Shaw Group Summer 2019The first of many. Joined as a systems administration intern.
Stony Brook iGEM Awarded Gold Fall 2018After a grueling summer of genetically engineering cyanobacteria, Stony Brook iGEM was nominated for best energy
project and won a gold
medal
at the international iGEM Jamboree. Learn more about our project, the "Sucrose Factory".
Joined RARE as an Unpaid Laborer 2017Though I was only a lowly high school student, I spent a lot of time working at the Rensselaer
Astrobiology Research and Education center (then known as the New York Center for
Astrobiology
at
Rensselaer). A lot of fun was had trying to synthesize RNA polymers in creative settings.
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