Kylan Race

About Kylan Race

Kylan Race is a Software Engineering professional with proven experience as both a specialist and a developer than can efficiently function in the full End-to-End Software Development space. Most recently while at Intel, Kylan\'s expertise and flexibility came into play in various Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning & AI segments. He co-led the design & development of the full stack Homomorphic Encryption framework, led team as the performance \"gatekeeper\" for public releases, and worked to improve software across his team especially from a scalability & optimization standpoint. Kylan has frequently displayed the ability to pinpoint and solve customer issues both through direct interaction and preemptive feature planning/development, and looks to utilize that expertise to improve software quality and increase profitability.

Experience

1. Research Scientist & Ai Software Solutions Engineer

   Intel Labs

   Feb 2023 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Role>Works with internal engineering teams and external partners, customers, and ISVs to deliver optimized AI & HPC solutions. Researches technical trends and utilizes deep domain and market segment expertise to prototype solutions and develop AI software including open source libraries and models. Optimizes performance of AI models through deep knowledge and expertise of AI frameworks, algorithms, models, and related hardware. Researches, develops, and adjusts new or existing AI models, code, parameters, and/or quantization to address issues and modify operations to enhance performance. Partners with AI algorithm and framework engineers as needed to optimize end-to-end AI models to Intel hardware features. Serves as a trusted technical advisor and provides technical enabling.Projects>Intel HERACLES: Homomorphic Encryption Revolutionary Accelerator with Correctness for Learning-oriented End-to-End Solutions- Brought in to develop full-stack software ecosystem around Intel HERACLES accelerator- Owned and Led the End-to-end pipeline meant to connect various components into a full SW Trace, Compile, Functional Test, and Performance Analysis flow (C++/Python/Bash)- Carried out detailed competitive performance analysis of various workloads and aided in the implementation and optimization of pipeline operations (Vtune/Perf/Emon/etc.)

Education

• Louisiana State University

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

• Howard University

  Computer Science

• Rice University

  Master's degree, Computer Science

Skills

• Css
• Php
• Python
• C++
• Visual Basic
• Java
• Microsoft Office
• Photoshop
• Sql
• Mysql
• Html
• C
• Javascript
• Objective-C
• Fortran 95