Mukul Rathi
MEng Cambridge CompSci graduate, now Software Engineer at Facebook.
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Tips from my time at Cambridge and Facebook, and early access to technical tutorials on machine learning, compilers and beyond.
Education
2020-2021
University of Cambridge
MEng Computer Science
Awarded Honours with Distinction.
Dissertation: “Machine Unlearning” scored 91/100.
Modules:
- Category Theory
- Technology, Law and Society (topics include: Privacy, Data Protection (GDPR), Internet of Things, Algorithmic accountability)
- Principles of ML Systems (topics include: Federated Learning, Neural Architecture Search, Model Compression)
- Advanced Topics in ML and NLP (Bias in Datasets, Reinforcement Learning, Causal Inference)
- Interaction with ML (looking at intersection of HCI and ML)
2017-2020
University of Cambridge
B.A. (Hons) Computer Science
Awarded a First Class degree.
Third Year Results: Top Dissertation - ‘Types for Data-Race Freedom’. No overall ranks awarded due to COVID, received a high First Class.
Second Year Results: Ranked 3rd out of 102.
First Year Results: Ranked 2nd out of 101, 0.14 marks out of 400 behind the top-ranked student.
2010-2017
Nottingham High School
GCSEs and A Levels
A Levels: 4 A*s in Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Chemistry
GCSEs: 11 A*s and A (top grade) in FSMQ Additional Maths”
Experience
Aug 2021-
Software Engineer
Working in the Messenger Privacy Experiences team.
Jul - Sep 2020
Software Engineer Intern
Worked in the Data Portability Infra team, working on the Data Transfer Project.
Completed assigned intern project and stretch goals by week 5 of 12-week internship. Completed a further 2 projects, the latter of which I independently scoped out myself.
Used Java, Hack, React and Relay.
Jun - Sep 2019
Software Engineer Intern
Worked in the Catalog Experience team. Used ReactJS and Hack as part of a full-stack business-facing project: implemented error logging infrastructure and surfaced errors in a diagnostics UI for pixel-based catalogs.
Jul - Sep 2018
Jazz Networks
Software Engineer Intern
Worked in the Machine Learning team. Used a beta-VAE for unsupervised clustering of process file event data.
Jul - Aug 2016
University of Nottingham
Deep Learning Research Intern
Interned in the Computer Vision Laboratory. Used Fully Convolutional Networks for semantic segmentation. Completed whilst still in school.
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