🎓 PhD Student at Indiana University Bloomington
- Pursuing a PhD in Intelligent Systems Engineering
- Minor: Computer Science
- Undergraduate: BS Computer Science at Grand Valley State University, MI
- Completed 2024
🗺️ Bloomington, Indiana (From West Michigan)
📧 Email: srutier@iu.edu
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I am a PhD student in Intelligent Systems Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington, where I work on the NSF-funded FZ Compression Project in Dr. Fengguang Song's research group. My research focuses on high-performance computing, data compression, and sparse matrix storage — with a particular interest in building flexible tools that let domain scientists and researchers construct bespoke compression pipelines for their applications and analytical workflows.
I received my B.S. in Computer Science from Grand Valley State University, where I began research on sparse matrix compression for single-cell omics data under Dr. Zachary DeBruine and Dr. Erin Carrier. I also completed a research internship at Sandia National Laboratories, working on the E3SM atmospheric model (HOMME). These experiences shaped my interest in the intersection of performance, memory efficiency, and scientific computing.
My current projects include FZGPUModules, a modular heterogeneous computing framework for customizable graph-composable compression pipelines, and IVSparse, a C++ sparse matrix library optimized for highly redundant sparse data such as genomic data.
Outside of research I enjoy games, caving, hiking, cooking, and mixology.