cv.yaml

name:
  first: Brandon
  last: Amos
phone: ~(540)~947~1238
email: bamos@cs.cmu.edu
pdf: /data/cv.pdf
src: https://github.com/bamos/cv
url: "bamos.github.io"
social:
  github: bamos
  twitter: brandondamos
  linkedin: bdamos
  google_scholar: d8gdZR4AAAAJ
# Erdős  number is at most 4.
# (Brandon Amos -> Layne Watson -> Leroy Kelly -> Zoltán Füredi -> Paul Erdős )

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style: banking # casual, classic, oldstyle, or banking
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color2: '0.25,0.25,0.25' # Make the font under the name a darker grey.

# (tag, section type, title)
order:
  - [about, NONE]
  # - [news, News]
  - [education, Education]
  - [industry, Experience]
  # - [research, Research Experience]
  - [selected_publications, Selected Publications]
  # - [NEWPAGE, NEWPAGE]
  - [teaching, Teaching Experience]
  # - [projects, Projects]
  # - [coursework, CMU Graduate Coursework]
  - [honors, Honors \& Awards]
  - [service, Service]
  - [skills, Skills]
  # - [NEWPAGE, NEWPAGE]
  - [all_publications, All Publications]
#  - [activities, Activities]

about: '
  I am a research scientist at <b>Facebook AI (FAIR)</b> in NYC and
  broadly study foundational topics and applications in
  <b>machine learning</b> (sometimes deep) and
  <b>optimization</b> (sometimes convex),
  including
  reinforcement learning, computer vision, language,
  statistics, and theory.
  I have a Ph.D. from <b>Carnegie Mellon University</b> and was
  advised by \href{http://zicokolter.com/}{Zico Kolter}
  and supported by an <b>NSF graduate research fellowship.</b>
  My thesis is on
  \href{https://github.com/bamos/thesis}{Differentiable Optimization-Based Modeling for Machine Learning}.
  My publications are available below and on
  \href{https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=d8gdZR4AAAAJ}{my Google Scholar page}
  and my open source contributions can be found on
  \href{https://github.com/bamos}{my Github profile}.
  I have also worked on <b>reinforcement learning</b>
  during an internship with
  \href{https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~nando/}{Nando de Freitas}
  and
  \href{http://mdenil.com/}{Misha Denil}
  at <b>DeepMind</b> in 2017
  and on vision with
  \href{http://vladlen.info}{Vladlen Koltun}
  at <b>Intel Labs</b> in 2018.
  <br><br>'

# news:
  # - date: Sept 2018
  #   info: "I will be attending NIPS 2018 this year. Come see our work on
  #     1) differentiable model predictive control and
  #     2) depth-limited solving for imperfect-information games."
  # - date: Mar 2018
  #   info: "I will be at ICLR this year presenting
  #   my DeepMind internship paper
  #   <a href='https://openreview.net/forum?id=r1HhRfWRZ'>
  #     Learning Awareness Models</a>."
  # - date: Feb 2018
  #   info: "I am interning at Intel Labs in Santa Clara this summer
  #   with <a href='http://vladlen.info/'>Vladlen Koltun</a>."
  # - date: Nov 2017
  #   info: "I will be at NIPS 2017 this year.
  #   Come see our
  #   <a href='https://papers.nips.cc/paper/7132-task-based-end-to-end-model-learning-in-stochastic-optimization'>Task-based End-to-end Model Learning in Stochastic Optimization</a>
  #   work at the main conference and our (unpublished)
  #   End-to-end Model Predictive Control work at the
  #   deep reinforcement learning symposium.
  #   "
  # - date: June 2017
  #   info: "Our ICNN and OptNet papers have been accepted to ICML and
  #   the camera-ready versions are available on arXiv."
  # - date: May 2017
  #   info: "I am interning at <a href='https://deepmind.com/'>Google DeepMind</a>
  #   in London this summer with
  #   <a href='http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/nando.defreitas/'>Nando de Freitas</a>."


service:
  - title: Reviewer
    details: ICML 2018, NeurIPS 2018, NeurIPS Deep RL Workshop 2018, ICLR 2019 (outstanding reviewer), ICML 2019, ICCV 2019
  - title: Admissions
    details: CMU CSD MS 2014-2015

selected_repos:
  https://github.com/locuslab/icnn
  https://locuslab.github.io/qpth/
  https://github.com/locuslab/qpth
  https://github.com/locuslab/mpc.pytorch
  https://github.com/bamos/densenet.pytorch
  https://github.com/bamos/dcgan-completion.tensorflow
  https://github.com/bamos/block
  https://github.com/bamos/setGPU

education:
  - school: Carnegie Mellon University
    location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    degree: Ph.D. in Computer Science
    dates: Aug 2014 -- May 2019
    overallGPA: 0.00/0.00

  - school: Carnegie Mellon University
    location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    degree: M.S. in Computer Science
    dates: Aug 2014 -- May 2016
    overallGPA: 0.00/0.00

  - school: Virginia Tech
    location: Blacksburg, Virginia
    degree: B.S. in Computer Science
    # degree: B.S., Computer Science, Honors Scholar
    dates: Aug 2011 -- May 2014
    overallGPA: 3.99/4.00
    majorGPA: 4.00/4.00

  - school: Northside High School (Roanoke, Virginia)
    dates: Aug 2007 -- May 2011

research:
  - place: Facebook AI
    location: New York, New York
    title: Research Scientist
    dates: May 2019 -- Present
    area: Machine learning and optimization
  - place: Carnegie Mellon University
    location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    title: Research Assistant
    advisor: Zico Kolter
    dates: Apr 2016 -- May 2019
    area: Machine learning and optimization
  - place: Intel Labs
    location: Santa Clara, California
    title: Research Intern
    dates: June 2018 -- Sept 2018
    advisor: Vladlen Koltun
    area: Machine learning
  - place: Google DeepMind
    location: London, UK
    title: Research Intern
    dates: May 2017 -- Oct 2017
    advisor: Nando de Freitas
    area: Machine and reinforcement learning
  - place: Carnegie Mellon University
    location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    title: Research Assistant
    advisor: Mahadev Satyanarayanan
    dates: Aug 2014 -- Apr 2016
    area: Applied machine learning and mobile systems
    details:
      - |
          Face recognition with deep neural networks:
          \url{http://github.com/cmusatyalab/openface}
  - place: Virginia Tech
    location: Blacksburg, Virginia
    title: Undergraduate Research Assistant
    advisor: Jules White
    dates: May 2012 -- May 2014
    area: Mobile systems, cyber-physical systems, and security
    details:
      - Android malware detection research using
        a distributed {\bf Actor-based Scala} system.
      #- Modified the {\bf Android source} to provide non-standard logging
      #  information for dynamic malware analysis.
      - Manufacturing cyber-physical security research implemented
        with {\bf VC\#} and {\bf Python}.
      #- Developed {\bf VC\#} and {\bf Python} programs for a pilot study on
      #  manufacturing cyber-physical security.
      #- Assisted {\bf C++} and {\bf Make} development in {\bf Linux} for a
      #  deployment optimization framework.
  - place: Virginia Tech
    location: Blacksburg, Virginia
    title: Undergraduate Research Assistant
    advisor: Layne Watson
    dates: Jan 2013 -- May 2014
    area: Scientific computing, global/stochastic optimization, and bioinformatics
    details:
      - Algorithm development for global and stochastic optimization using quasi-Newton
        methods for {\bf parameter estimation} in
        {\bf Fortran 95} and {\bf OpenMP}.
      - Bioinformatics research on yeast cell modeling using
        {\bf Fortran 95}, {\bf C++}, and {\bf Matlab}.

  - place: Virginia Tech
    location: Blacksburg, Virginia
    title: Undergraduate Research Assistant
    advisor: Binoy Ravindran
    dates: Nov 2012 -- Mar 2014
    area: Heterogeneous compilers
    details:
      - Compiler research on a heterogeneous system
        on automatic {\bf OpenMP} to {\bf CUDA}
        translation using {\bf C++} and the {\bf ROSE} compiler framework.
      - Polyhedral loop optimization research to restructure
        {\bf OpenCL} kernels for locality using {\bf LLVM} and {\bf Polly}.
      #- '{\bf Scala} and {\bf Bash} development in {\bf Linux}.'

industry:
  - place: Facebook AI
    location: New York, New York
    title: Research Scientist
    dates: May 2019 -- Present
  - place: Intel Labs
    location: Santa Clara, California
    title: Research Intern
    dates: June 2018 -- Sept 2018
  - place: Google DeepMind
    location: London, UK
    title: Research Intern
    dates: May 2017 -- Oct 2017
  - place: Adobe Research
    location: San Jose, California
    title: Data Scientist Intern
    dates: May 2014 -- Aug 2014
    area: Distributed Systems
    details:
      - I built a web analytics processing engine using {\bf Scala},
        {\bf Spark}, {\bf Spray}, {\bf Parquet}, and {\bf HDFS}.
  - place: Snowplow Analytics
    location: London, United Kingdom (Remote)
    title: Software Engineer Intern
    dates: Dec 2013 -- Jan 2014
    details:
    - Open-source {\bf Scala} development with a startup on the
      Snowplow analytics platform.
      My commits are online at
      \url{https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/commits?author=bamos}.
    - Developed a new server using {\bf Spray} and {\bf Actors} to store
      {\bf Thrift} events on {\bf Amazon Kinesis}.
    # - "Helped port Snowplow's Scala enrichment process to Kinesis."
  - place: Qualcomm
    location: San Diego, California
    title: Software Engineer Intern
    dates: May 2013 -- Aug 2013
    details:
    - "I created a specification format language translator for fuzz
      testing with Python."
    # - Developed an XML modification {\bf web application} for
    #   fuzz vector generation.
    #   Implemented with client-side {\bf HTML} and {\bf js},
    #   using {\bf D3} for graphics and {\bf Handlebars} for templating.
    # - Developed an XML-based grammar translator in {\bf C++} with
    #   the {\bf Xerces} XML parser in {\bf Linux}.
    #   Reimplemented in {\bf Python} using the {\bf ElementTree} XML API for
    #   sophisticated analysis and tree transformations.
  - place: Phoenix Integration
    location: Blacksburg, Virginia
    title: Software Engineer Intern
    dates: May 2012 -- Aug 2012
    details:
      - I developed industry software for software integration and
        design process optimization in {\bf VC++}, {\bf VC\#}, and {\bf Java}.
      # - Developed industry software in
      #   {\bf VC++}, {\bf VC\#}, {\bf Java}, and {\bf Tomcat}.
      # - Improved the testing ({\bf JUnit} and {\bf NUnit}) and installation
      #   ({\bf Ant}, {\bf InstallShield}, and {\bf Make}) frameworks.
      # - Integrated a new licensing mode into CenterLink, a grid computing
      #   application, using {\bf FLEXlm} and {\bf Java}.
  - place: Sunapsys
    location: Vinton, Virginia
    title: Network Administrator Intern
    dates: Jan 2011 -- Aug 2011
    details:
      - Internship in high school to replace Windows domain, mail,
        DHCP, and DNS servers with virtual {\bf Linux} servers
        using {\bf KVM} and {\bf virsh}.
      # - Migrated the office's computers to the Linux servers.
      # - Created {\bf Bash} scripts for incremental backups with rsync
      #   and hard links.

teaching:
  - semester: S2017
    name: Graduate AI
    short: CMU 15-780
    position: TA
  - semester: S2016
    name: Distributed Systems
    short: CMU 15-440/640
    position: TA
  - semester: S2013
    name: Software Design and Data Structures
    short: VT CS 2114
    position: TA

selected_publications:
  name: "B. Amos"
  file: selected.bib

all_publications:
  name: "B. Amos"
  categories:
    - heading: Preprints and Tech Reports
      prefix: P
      file: tech-reports.bib
    - heading: Conference Proceedings
      prefix: C
      file: conference.bib
    - heading: Journal Articles
      prefix: J
      file: journal.bib
    - heading: Workshop, Symposium, and Short Papers
      prefix: W
      file: short.bib
    - heading: Magazine Articles
      prefix: M
      file: magazine.bib
    # - heading: Posters
    #   prefix: S
    #   file: posters.bib


coursework:
  - semester: S2017
    name: Statistical Machine Learning (10-702, Au)
    instructor: L. Wasserman
  - semester: S2017
    name: Deep Reinforcement Learning (10-703, Au)
    instructor: R. Salakhutdinov and A. Fragkiadaki
  - semester: F2016
    name: Intermediate Statistics (10-705, Au)
    instructor: L. Wasserman
  - semester: F2016
    name: Topics in Deep Learning (10-807)
    instructor: R. Salakhutdinov
  - semester: F2015
    name: Convex Optimization (10-725)
    instructor: R. J. Tibshirani
  - semester: F2015
    name: Algorithms in the Real World (15-853)
    instructor: G. Blelloch and A. Gupta
  - semester: S2015
    name: Semantics of Programming Languages (15-812)
    instructor: A. Platzer
  - semester: S2015
    name: Optimizing Compilers for Modern Architecture (15-745)
    instructor: T. Mowry
  - semester: F2014
    name: Advanced Operating and Distributed Systems (15-712)
    instructor: D. Andersen
  - semester: F2014
    name: Mobile and Pervasive Computing (15-812)
    instructor: M. Satyanarayanan and D. Siewiorek

skills:
  - title: Languages
    details: C, C++, Fortran, Haskell, Java,
      Lua, Make, {\it Mathematica}, Python, R, Scala
  - title: Frameworks
    details: NumPy, Pandas, PyTorch, SciPy, TensorFlow, Torch7
  - title: Systems
    details: Linux, OSX

honors:
  - title: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
    year: 2016 -- 2019
  - title: "Eight undergraduate scholarships"
    year: 2011 -- 2014
  # - title: Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
    # year: Inducted May 2014
  # - title: 1st Place Undergraduate Senior Capstone Award, Virginia Tech Computer Science
  #   year: 2014
  # - title: David Heilman Research Award, Virginia Tech Computer Science
  #   year: 2014
    # descr: Awarded to the Computer Science student with the most
    #   outstanding research experience.
  # - title: Senior Scholar Award, Virginia Tech Computer Science
  #   year: 2014
    # descr: Awarded to the senior in Computer Science with the most
    #        outstanding academic record.
  # - title: ACC Meeting of the Minds Undergraduate Research Conference, 2014
   # url: http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2014/03/030514-uged-accmom.html
  # - title: Honorable Mention, CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award
  #   year: 2014
    # descr: 1 of 15 North American males awarded honorable mention for
    #        exemplary computer science research.
    # url: http://cra.org/awards/undergrad-view/2014_outstanding_undergraduate_award_recipients/
  #- title: Qualstar Award, Qualcomm, 2013
  #- title: Pi Mu Epsilon Honor Society, Inducted 2013
  # - title: Awarded eight undergraduate merit scholarships
  #   year: 2011 -- 2014
  # - title: Benjamin F. Bock Merit Scholarship, Virginia Tech Engineering
    # year: 2013 -- 2014
  # - title: Sophomore Scholar Award, Virginia Tech Computer Science, 2013
  #descr: Awarded to the sophomore in Computer Science with the most
  #         outstanding academic record.
  #- title: University Honors, Virginia Tech, 2012 -- 2014
  # - title: Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence Scholarship,
      # Virginia Tech
    # year: 2012 -- 2014
    # descr: Merit-based scholarship providing a cyber-security
    #        research fellowship.
  #- title: Dean's List with Distinction, Virginia Tech, 2011 -- 2014
  # - title: Engineering Merit Scholarship,
           # Roanoke County Public Schools Education Foundation
    # year: 2011
    # descr: Merit-based scholarship presented annually to one student
    #        in the graduating Engineering class.
  # - title: "Papa John's Merit Scholarship"
    # year: 2011
  # - title: Gay B. Shober Memorial Merit Scholarship,
        # Roanoke County Federal Credit Union
    # year: 2011
  # - title: Pamplin Leader Merit Scholarship, Virginia Tech
    # year: 2011
    # descr: Merit-based scholarship presented to one student from
    #        each public high school in Virginia.
    # url: http://ww2.roanoke.com/community/virginia/education/wb/292050
  # - title: I. Luck Gravett Memorial Merit Scholarship,
        # Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
    # year: 2011
  # - title: Salem -- Roanoke County Chamber of Commerce Merit Scholarship
    # year: 2011
    # url: http://s-rcchamber.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/August-2011-NL.pdf
  #- title: 1st Place Regional CAD/Engineering Drawing,
  #         Virginia TSA, Blue Ridge Region, 2011
  #- title: District Band Trumpeter, VBODA District VI, 2009 -- 2011
  #- title: Virginia Aerospace Science and Technology Scholar,
  #         National Space Grant Foundation, 2010
  #  descr: Selected as an attendee of a summer academy at NASA
  #         Langley Research Center.
  #- title: Head Junior Marshall, Northside High School, 2010
  #- title: 3rd Place District Foreign Extemporaneous Speaker,
  #         VHSL Forensics, 2009

# projects:
#   website:
#     name: Personal Blog and Website
#     url: http://bamos.github.io
#     details:
#       - Hosted on GitHub Pages. Uses {\bf Markdown} for posts and {\bf Jekyll}
#           for static HTML generation.
#       - '{\bf 42 posts} across the following tags,
#         listed by highest frequency.'
#       - Python, Bash, Linux, LaTeX, Fortran, Android, Scala, News,
#         JavaScript, Zsh, C++, OpenMP, Lua, Make, Mathematica, mpv
#   github:
#     name: GitHub Portfolio
#     url: http://github.com/bamos
#     details:
#       - Hosts code samples, original source code, and patches for
#         open source projects.
#       - 25 original repositories, 5 forked repositories.

# activities:
#   - Honors Residential College, Virginia Tech, 2013 -- 2014
#   - Hokies Pep Band, Virginia Tech, 2012 -- 2013
#   - Computer Science Community Service, Virginia Tech, 2012
#   - Symphony Band, Virginia Tech, 2011 -- 2012
#   - Linux and Unix Users Group, Virginia Tech, 2011 -- 2012
#   - Galileo Living -- Learning Community, Virginia Tech, 2011 -- 2012
# - Trumpet Section Leader, Maring Band, Northside High School, 2010 -- 2011
# - Math Club, Northside High School, 2010 -- 2011
# - National Honor Society, Northside High School, 2009 -- 2011
# - Academic Team, Northside High School, 2009 -- 2011
# - Chess Team, Northside High School, 2009 -- 2011
# - Tennis Team, Northside High School, 2008 -- 2011
# - Technology Student Association, Northside High School, 2008 -- 2011
# - Maring Band, Northside High School, 2007 -- 2011
# - Robotics Team, Virginia Western Community College, 2009 -- 2010
# - Guitar Club, Northside High School, 2009 -- 2010
# - Forensics Team, Northside High School, 2008 -- 2010
# - Spanish Club, Northside High School, 2008 -- 2010
# - Engineering Club, Burton Center for Arts and Technology, 2007 -- 2008
# - Soccer Team, Northside High School, 2007 -- 2008