Staff
Instructors
Rod Albuyeh
Hi there, my name is Rod. I was born and raised in the Bay Area and have spent my entire academic and professional life in various parts of California, including Mountain View, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and now San Diego. I obtained my PhD in 2016 from USC, where I studied political belief systems. After completing my doctoral degree, I worked in machine learning and architecture roles at both large companies such as Intuit and ResMed, as well as smaller FinTech startups such as Figure and Oportun. Currently, I run a machine learning consultancy and assist companies with scaling, automating, and productionizing their workloads. Additionally, I have a passion for teaching and am returning to UCSD after a brief stint during the pandemic. Outside of data science, I am an avid (and sometimes competitive) mixed martial artist, musician, tinkerer, and dad. I also have a cat named Foosball and a dog named Lola.
I am excited about the content we will be covering in this course because it is foundational to systems you will be using in your career, whether you are working in “lift and churn” business applications or the next LLM. The tools you learn here will serve you for the long haul.
Course Staff
Sai Sree Harsha
ssreeharsha@ucsd.edu • TA
I am Sai, a first year CSE Master’s student. My academic interests lie primarily in machine learning and data analytics. I have previously interned as a machine learning applied scientist at Amazon and as a software engineer at Oracle. In my free time, I enjoy cooking, running and listening to music.
Golokesh Patra
gpatra@ucsd.edu • TA
My name is Golokesh Patra, a first-year Data Science Master’s student. With over 4 years of work experience as a Senior Data Engineer at HP Inc and Thoughtworks, I have gained valuable insights into data analytics. I have also served as a teaching assistant for the same course during the Winter Quarter of this academic year, which has further honed my skills in this domain. My academic interests primarily lie in Machine Learning and Scalable Data Analytics.
Trevor Tuttle
tjtuttle@ucsd.edu • TA
I am Trevor Tuttle, a first year Data Science Master’s student. I first took this course two years ago with Professor Albuyeh, and have since been a teaching assistant for both fall and winter quarters this academic year. I enjoy hiking, video games, and most of all learning! My academic interests lie in machine learning systems, scalability, and optimization.