Forrest Iandola

B.S. in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2012.
Illinois Math and Science Academy, May 2008.
Email: forresti@eecs.berkeley.edu

I am a PhD student in computer science at University of California, Berkeley.

I have also worked at a variety of government and industry R&D institutions including LLNL, Fermilab, SLAC, and NVIDIA. I did my undergraduate thesis at UIUC with Prof. Tarek Abdelzaher. My research interests span real-time systems, parallel computing, and computer vision.

When I'm not studying or researching, I like to follow tech news and to see the latest developments in the world of software startups. I also like to stay current with automotive industry news. Jalopnik, Autoblog, and Top Gear are three of my favorite automotive news sources. I am the co-creator of InsideLine Viewer.

Research and Industry Experience

University of California, Berkeley, CA
Research Assistant, August 2012 to present

Working with Kurt Keutzer on energy efficient parallel algorithms for computer vision and image processing.
Funded by the NDSEG Fellowship.

NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA
CUDA Intern, June 2012 to August 2012

OS-level programming in C to enhance the flexibility and performance of the CUDA programming system.

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA
Research Intern, June 2011 to December 2011

Worked with Joseph Perl on the Geant4 Monte Carlo particle transport simulation toolkit.
Designed computational geometry methods for modeling and simulating radiation cancer therapy systems.

University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
Research Assistant, December 2009 to May 2012

Working with Prof. Tarek Abdelzaher to develop schedulability theorems for real-time and distributed systems.
Worked with Dr. Mahsa Kamali, Prof. Matei Stroila, and Prof. John C. Hart on panorama-making techniques.
Worked with Prof. William D. Gropp and Prof. Wen-Mei Hwu to build the EcoG GPU computing cluster, which is the world's third-greenest supercomputer according to the November 2010 Green500 List.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
Summer Scholar, May 2010 to August 2010

Worked with Matthew O'Brien, Scott McKinley, and Richard Procassini to develop the Mercury parallel Monte Carlo particle transport simulation.
Designed and implemented a Python API for Mercury.

State Farm Research Center, Champaign, IL
Systems Analyst Intern, September 2009 to December 2009

Designed a mobile application that provides immediate automobile insurance quotes.
Created marketing strategies to leverage mobile applications to increase market share in the 18-25 age range.

Northwestern University Articulab, Evanston, IL
Summer Student, May 2008 to August 2008

Worked with Prof. Justine Cassell (now at CMU) in the Articulab on the NUMACK Embodied Conversational Agent project.
Enhanced synchronization of gestures and dialogue for Embodied Conversational Agents in educational software for children with autism.

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL
Computer Science Intern, June 2006 to May 2008

Worked Dr. Michael J. Syphers to construct simulation software for future electron accelerators.
Worked with Dr. Raymond Fliller to revamp controls for electron accelerator lasers and electromagnets with C++ and MATLAB.

Publications

Communication-Minimizing 2D Convolution in GPU Registers
Forrest N. Iandola, David Sheffield, Michael Anderson, Phitchaya Mangpo Phothilimthana, and Kurt Keutzer
Submitted to International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2013. Paper(PDF)

Optimal Load Management System for Aircraft Electric Power Distribution
Mehdi Maasoumy, Pierluigi Nuzzo, Forrest Iandola, Maryam Kamgarpour, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli and Claire Tomlin
Submitted to IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2013.

Optimizing the Structural Robustness of Real-Time Distributed Systems Towards Uncertainties in Execution Time
Forrest N. Iandola, Praveen Jayachandran, and Tarek Abdelzaher
Accepted with revisions, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2012.

Representing Range Compensators in the TOPAS Monte Carlo System
Forrest N. Iandola, Jan Schuemann, Jungwook Shin, Bruce Faddegon, Harald Paganetti, and Joseph Perl
European Workshop on Monte Carlo Treatment Planning, Seville, Spain, 2012. Paper(PDF) Slides(PDF)

On Schedulability and Time Composability of Multisensor Data Aggregation Networks
Fatemeh Saremi, Praveen Jayachandran, Forrest Iandola, Yusuf Sarwar, and Tarek Abdelzaher
International Conference on Information Fusion, Singapore, 2012. Paper(PDF)

MethMorph: Simulating Facial Deformation due to Methamphetamine Usage
Mahsa Kamali, Forrest N. Iandola, Hui Fang, and John C. Hart
International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), Las Vegas, NV, 2011. Paper(PDF)

Linear Clutter Removal from Urban Panoramas
Mahsa Kamali, Ido Omer, Forrest Iandola, Eyal Ofek, and John C. Hart
International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), Las Vegas, NV, 2011. Paper(PDF)

Real-Time Capacity of Networked Data Fusion
Forrest Iandola, Fatemeh Saremi, Tarek Abdelzaher, Praveen Jayachandran, and Aylin Yener
International Conference on Information Fusion, Chicago, IL, 2011. Paper(PDF)

PyMercury: Interactive Python for the Mercury Monte Carlo Particle Transport Code
Forrest N. Iandola, Matthew O'Brien, and Richard Procassini
International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2011. Paper(PDF)

Electron Beam Focusing for the International Linear Collider
Forrest Iandola and Michael Syphers
American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 2008. Paper(PDF)

Selected Technical Coursework

CS 280 Computer Vision
EE 249 Embedded Systems
CS 498 Cluster Computing
CS 498 Mobile Augmented Reality
CS 424 Real-Time and Cyber-Physical Systems
CS 421 Programming Languages and Compilers
CS 420 Parallel Programming
CS 373 Theory of Computation
CS 241 System Programming
CS 232 Computer Architecture II
CS 225 Data Structures

Teaching

ENG 198 Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Teaching Assistant, Fall 2009 and Spring 2010

Worked with a group of faculty including Prof. David E. Goldberg and Prof. Ray Price to develop a new entrepreneurship curriculum for engineering students.

Contact

forresti@eecs.berkeley.edu

815-275-0447 (C)