About Me
This is the personal website of Ismail Ahmed. I am a recent honors graduate from UC Santa Cruz with a Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science (CS), and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Economics from UC Santa Cruz, who is passionate about applying the latest technology to address critical problems and create real-world impact within professional organizations.
Education
Master of Science in Computer Science & Engineering
September 2024 - June 2025 · UC Santa Cruz
Thesis: Locker 2.0 - Oblivious Computation for the ectd Key-Value Datastore.
Commercial Real Estate Fundamentals Levels 1-3 Certificate
September 2024 - October 2024 · Project Destined
Thesis: Developed the ability to research the commercial real estate market in various markets in the USA and analyzed real-life commercial real estate deals with various financial modeling techniques.
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Engineering
September 2020 - August 2024 · UC Santa Cruz
Bachelor of Arts in Economics
September 2020 - August 2024 · UC Santa Cruz
Experiences
Undergraduate Research Intern
June 2022 - August 2022 · Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Institute
- Coauthored a ~12x faster cutting-edge research paper on hardware security.
- Identified the Memory Attack on potential hardware security vulnerabilities.
- Received specialized training for Hardware Security, Computer Networking, Data Science, Machine Learning, and Cryptocurrency.
Projects
Master Capstone Project - Locker 2.0 Oblivious Computation
UC Santa Cruz - Created the first ever secure oblivious computation client-server protocol for the Etcd key-value cloud distributed data storage solution for Kubernetes.
Intel Sunny Cove CPU Optimization
UC Santa Cruz - Improved the Intel Sunny Cove CPU’s performance by ~4-7% by using the SWQUE fetching method for the instruction cache in the Scarab CPU simulator in 3 weeks. It was a 2-person group project with Ismail Ahmed and Joseph Perrello.
American Neighborhood Scene
UC Santa Cruz - Written an online graphics scene of an American suburban neighborhood using Three.JS as a library in 3 weeks.
Task Manager Website
UC Santa Cruz - Written a full-stack corporate task manager website using Vue.js, Axios, Py4Web, and Bulma as libraries in 1 month. It was a 4-person group project with Ismail Ahmed, Sanjana Patil, Shanaya Malik, and Miguel Sanchez Reyes.
RSA Encryptor
UC Santa Cruz - Written a command-line RSA encryptor for files using GDB and Valgrind for debugging in 2 weeks.
NBA Simulator
Personal Project - Written a command-line basketball simulator using real NBA statistics using NumPy, Pandas, and Matplotlib in 4 weeks.
Motion Detection
UC Santa Cruz - Written a command-line motion-detection tool using Matplotlib, Numpy, PIL, and Requests as libraries in 1 week.
Relevant Specialist Skills
C (GDB & Valgrind)
C++ (STL, GDB, and Valgrind)
Python (NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Scikit-Learn, Python Image Library/PIL, Requests, and Py4Web)
Go (Hugo)
HTML
CSS (Boostrap & Bulma)
JavaScript (ECMAScript14, React, Vue, Express, Node, Vite, Axios, and Three.JS)
SQL (PostgresSQL & PyDAL)
R (PostgresSQL & PyDAL)
Stata (PostgresSQL & PyDAL)
Kubernetes (Etcd)
Docker (Kubernetes)
Assembly (MIPS & RISC-V)
Verilog (SystemVerilog)
OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL)
Regular Expressions (Regex)
Scikit-Learn
Numpy
Pandas
Matplotlib