Ambareesh Shyam Sundar
I am a fourth-year undergraduate student at Georgia Tech studying Computer Science and Mathematics. I am broadly interested in designing high-performance computing systems, especially from the perspective of hardware-software codesign. I am also interested in applications of these systems to scientific computing, machine learning, and robotics. Currently, I am a teaching assistant for Georgia Tech's CS 4803/6222: Systems for Machine Learning.
In summer 2026, I was a Data Security Intern at 1Password, where I worked on refactoring and improving the open-source Rust library passkey-rs. In summer 2024, I worked as a Software Engineering Intern at the Georgia Tech Open Source Program Office and collaborated with mentors from IBM to contribute to PyTorch.
From 2024 to 2026, I worked as a student researcher at the Georgia Tech Mathematical Neuroscience Lab, where I helped design and implement computationally efficient machine learning models for computer vision using insights from animal biology.
Writing
- "Above and Below: Matroids and Generalizations via Greedy Algorithms", expository paper (2025). [pdf]
- "Gröbner Bases", expository paper (2025). [pdf]
- "Sphere Packing and the Geometry of Numbers", expository paper (2025). [pdf]
- "A Self-Contained Introduction to Khovanov Homology", expository paper (2025). [pdf]
Projects
- Foxtail, a Unix-like 32-bit x86 operating system written in C. [Github]
- How the Turntables, an original rhythm game that won 12th place in the Juniper Dev Game Jam. [Itch]
- Open Aim Trainer, a lightweight open source FPS aim trainer with scriptable and customizable scenarios. [Github]
- Dungeon Deja Vu, a platformer created for the Bevy Jam 5 with a unique cyclic twist. [Github] [Itch]
- Coda, a scripting language for music synthesis. [Github]
- Chaotic Hash Functions, benchmarking the effectiveness of hash functions implemented using chaotic discrete maps. [Github]