Seth Ockerman
Graduate Research Assistant
United States
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Top SchoolSeth Ockerman is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at UW–Madison with six years of experience researching and optimizing AI and ML workloads for high-performance computing. Funded by the NSF GRFP and advised by Professor Shivaram Venkataraman, he focuses on characterizing and scaling AI workloads and designing vector database and optimization solutions for HPC environments. His work spans collaborations with Argonne, Berkeley Lab, and UC Berkeley, where he implemented parallel Bayesian optimization improvements that sped time-to-solution and improved parameter selection. Seth has a strong teaching background in big data systems, a track record accelerating bioimage analysis by orders of magnitude, and maintains practical software instincts from game and web development projects. Notably, he blends systems-level performance tuning with applied ML research, producing both published results and open-source tools like BioPII.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonComputer Science, Computer Science at Grand Valley State UniversityHigh School Diploma, College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program, High School Diploma, College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program at Dexter High School
Github Skills (41)
machine-learning-models10
temporal10
gnn10
signal-processing10
spatial-analysis10
temporal-data10
spatial-data10
geometric10
graph-embedding10
density-estimation10
pytorch-geometric10
signal9
transformers9
pytorch9
large-language-models9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
OckermanSethGVSU/Social-Media-Mask-Dataset
Jan 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
OckermanSethGVSU/OnlineCodingPraticeProblemsSolutions
May 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:153 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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