Sulekha Kishore

PhD Student @ MIT | NSF GRFP Fellow

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

About

Experience

  • Graduate Student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Sep 2025 - Present · 10 mos

    Institute for Data, Systems, Society

  • Caltech (Pasadena, California, United States · On-site)
    • Research Assistant, Alvarez Group
      Mar 2023 - Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      • Developed open-source fast probabilistic linkage python package (Fast-ER): improves record linkage speed by over 60x by utilizing GPU computation (Spring 2024) • Identification of demographic groups with high mail ballot rejections in 2022 Washington state election (Spring 2023)

    • CS Teaching Assistant
      Jan 2023 - Apr 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

      • CS 21: Decidability & Tractability (Winter 2023, Winter 2024) • CS 143: Networks: Algorithms & Architecture (Fall 2024)

  • Software Engineer at Starfish Space
    Jun 2023 - Sep 2023 · 4 mos

  • Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, Kasliwal Lab at Caltech
    Jun 2022 - Sep 2022 · 4 mos

    • WINTER Telescope Data Pipeline Software: Development of data processing pipeline for nightly data from WINTER, an infrared telescope at Palomar • Integration into 2 large open-source projects, SkyPortal & Kowalski

  • Research Assistant, Spacecraft Software Development at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Jun 2021 - Sep 2021 · 4 mos