Ishan Buyyanapragada

rapids @ nvidia · cs @ uiuc

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I'm an undergraduate studying computer science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I work on RAPIDS at NVIDIA.

Currently interested in systems programming, performance engineering, and low-latency execution on Linux.

Experience

Education

Projects

parquet_plugin — C++

A MariaDB 11.x storage engine plugin that exports query results as Apache Iceberg tables with Parquet data files on S3-compatible storage.

the-final-exchange — C++20

A mock trading exchange for discrete-information games: price-time priority matching engine, instrument plugin interface, custom binary wire protocol, and liquidity bots that connect as ordinary protocol clients.

dlp_model — Python

A weakly-supervised algorithm that summarizes the state of research in a field using dynamic topic modeling over published abstracts — built on a climate-change corpus drawn from 2.2M arXiv abstracts.

asr_system — Python

Lecture transcription and summarization for people who have trouble hearing lectures, built on Whisper.

website_chatbot — TypeScript

A RAG chatbot trained on my own writing — an AI version of me for my website.

ragaID — Python

Identifies most Carnatic ragams by scale and name, with example recordings pulled from the YouTube API.

More at github.com/ishanpragada.

ibuyy@illinois.edu