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PhD student in Information Systems Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington.

Contact Information

Name Skyler Ruiter
Professional Title PhD Student
Email [email protected]

Professional Summary

PhD student in Intelligent Systems Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington, working on high-performance computing, data compression, and sparse matrix storage.

Experience

  • 2024 - present

    Bloomington, IN

    Graduate Research Assistant
    Indiana University — FZ Compression Project
    • Developed FZGPUModules, a modular heterogeneous framework for customizable graph-composable compression pipelines for analytical workflows
    • Contributed to the IU FZ team compressor development targeting CPU and GPU architectures
  • 2023 - 2023

    Albuquerque, NM

    Research Intern
    Sandia National Laboratories
    • Worked on the E3SM atmospheric model (HOMME — High-Order Method Modeling Environment)
    • Gained experience with large-scale scientific computing and performance optimization
  • 2021 - 2023

    Allendale, MI

    Undergraduate Research Assistant
    Grand Valley State University — Applied Computing Institute
    • Developed IVSparse library: novel sparse matrix formats (VCSC, IVCSC) for highly redundant data
    • Presented at IEEE BigData ‘24, Data Compression Conference ‘24, Grand Rapids Tech Week ‘24

Education

  • 2024 - present

    Bloomington, IN

    PhD
    Indiana University Bloomington
    Intelligent Systems Engineering
    • Advisor: Dr. Fengguang Song
    • FZ Compression Researcher
  • 2020 - 2024

    Allendale, MI

    B.S.
    Grand Valley State University
    Computer Science
    • Research: Sparse matrix compression for single-cell omics data
    • Mentors: Dr. Zachary DeBruine, Dr. Erin Carrier

Publications

Skills

Programming (): C/C++, CUDA, Python, CMake, Bash, Spack, Rust, PyTorch, NCCL, OpenMP, MPI, Kokkos, CUDASTF
Research Areas (): HPC, Data Compression, Sparse Matrices, GPU Computing, Scientific Computing