Julia Gonik

Software Engineer at Jane Street

New York, New York, United States

About

I studied Computer Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a minor in Mathematics. Some of my interests include machine learning, infrastructure, and systems engineering.

Experience

  • Software Engineer at Jane Street
    Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Software Engineer at Citi
    Feb 2023 - Jun 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Software Engineer at Meta
    Sep 2022 - Nov 2022 · 3 mos

  • Undergraduate Reinforcement Learning Researcher at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
    Sep 2020 - Sep 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

    - Implemented a reinforcement learning (RL) environment for cooperative multi-car team racing using OpenAI Gym - Experimented with various RL algorithms for training cooperative agents - Utilized custom reward structures to encourage the emergence of novel behaviors - Contributed to a research paper discussing emergent team strategies learned by the agents

  • Machine Learning Research Intern at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
    Jun 2020 - Aug 2020 · 3 mos

    - Researched novel methods of utilizing Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for cybersecurity data generation - Implemented new GAN architectures in PyTorch in order to facilitate cybersecurity data generation - Assessed the fidelity of generated cybersecurity data using heuristics gathered from real systems - Contributed to a research paper discussing the findings of the project