Jacob Elafandi

Graduate Student Instructor

University of California, Berkeley•  January 2023 - Present

• Served as teaching assistant for Calculus and Mathematical Methods of Optimization courses • Transitioned smoothly from in-person to online instruction at onset of pandemic

Graduate Student Researcher

University of California, Berkeley•  May 2023 - August 2023

• Developed numerical discretization of fourth-order Landau-de Gennes Q-tensor model for liquid crystals

Graduate Student Research Assistant

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory•  May 2020 - December 2022

• Worked in the Computational Systems Group at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center • Assisted in scheduling and optimizing project flow on the Cori supercomputer • Designed algorithm that bundled smaller jobs to run efficiently during gaps between large jobs, significantly reducing queue times for smaller jobs while maintaining overall throughput

Software Engineering Intern

Cray Inc. (now Hewlett Packard Enterprise)•  May 2018 - August 2019

• Transferred kernel interfaces from obsolete virtual file systems through editing underlying object structure • Modified build scripts and C source code to enable tracking of all allocated memory • Wrote a file system layer to intercept and handle system calls • Added extensible functionality to this file system layer, including: ability to print results to terminal or log file; configuration through files at start time and run time; individual configuration of system calls, including whether to print, percent chance of throwing an error, and percent chance of delaying execution

Research Assistant

University of Minnesota•  September 2018 - May 2019

• Enabled reassembly of bone fragments through creating edge detection algorithm to find lines of breakage

Calculus Tutor

University of Minnesota•  September 2016 - May 2019

• Led weekly review sessions for Honors Calculus 2, 3, and 4 students to improve course performance and material comprehension