About

Balaji Muthazhagan is a Master of Science in Computer Science student at UC San Diego with a specialization in Machine Learning and Systems. He is expected to graduate in December 2022 and is currently seeking full-time opportunities starting in January 2023. With 2 years of professional experience in Software Engineering, Balaji has built and architected complex, distributed, and data-heavy systems. His current role as a Graduate Student Researcher at UC San Diego involves working on research related to loss surfaces and mode connecting volumes in the parameter space of neural networks. Balaji has also worked as a Graduate Student Researcher at UC San Diego, where he developed sleep-based continual learning algorithms and integrated them with ContinualAi's avalanche. He has also worked as a Software Engineer Intern at Pinterest, where he engineered a performant graph validation engine for Pinterest ads serving, which could potentially drive millions of dollars in infra cost gains. Balaji's educational background includes a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from PSG College of Technology, where he was a Gold Medalist and Best Outgoing Student, and a 12th-grade Science degree from Sri Kumaran Children's Home. He also holds a Master of Science in Computer Science degree from the University of California. Balaji's technical skills include Research Scientist, Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Software Engineering, and infra. With 2.52 years of relevant experience, he is a highly skilled and motivated individual who is passionate about using his expertise to solve complex problems in the field of Computer Science.