Shashwat Jaiswal
Research Assistant at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana-Champaign Area United States
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Top SchoolShashwat Jaiswal is a CS PhD student and research assistant at UIUC with six years of experience researching systems and networking topics including disaggregated memory, LEO satellites, ML compilers, and edge systems under Professors Indranil Gupta and Josep Torrellas. He has interned and researched at top labs including Google and Microsoft, contributing to ML, cloud AI, and systems innovation projects, and holds a flawless 4.0 PhD record after graduating top of his class from IIT Bhilai. An active open-source contributor, he improved testing and documentation in the widely used Checkstyle Java project through integration tests and core fixes, demonstrating strong backend and tooling skills. Beyond research, he has led student tech communities and competitive programming chapters, reflecting both technical depth and mentorship experience. Colleagues describe him as a systems thinker who bridges theoretical rigor with practical engineering, often turning complex research ideas into reproducible tools and tests.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Higher Secondary, Science, Higher Secondary, Science at St Francis College LucknowDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, 9.8/10.0, Highest GPA in the graduating class of 2023, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, 9.8/10.0, Highest GPA in the graduating class of 2023 at Indian Institute of Technology, Bhilai
English, Hindi
Github Skills (5)
javas10
java10
test-automation10
testing10
documentation9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
checkstyle/checkstyle
Mar 2020 - Nov 2021
Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard. By default it supports the Google Java Style Guide and Sun Code Conventions, but is highly configurable. It can be invoked with an ANT task and a command line program.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:274 reviews, 364 commits, 364 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Shashwat primarily worked on improving the Checkstyle project, a tool for Java code style enforcement. Their contributions focused on integrating new integration tests for various checks like MissingJavadocMethod and UnnecessaryParentheses. The user also made documentation improvements, updating examples and descriptions in the code and documentation files. Their commits touched upon core aspects of the project, demonstrating a familiarity with testing and documentation.
ant-taskinvokedcode-qualityconventionscheckstyle
shashwatj07/Google-Books
Jun 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:7 reviews, 4 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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