About⌗

Hi! My name is Kandasamy Chokkalingam. I’m currently a MSCS student at CMU, and I previously got my B.S. in CS and a B.S. in Applied Math from UMD. I’m interested in software development, Linux, and programming languages.

In my free time, I enjoy biking and listening to good music. I happen to spend a lot of timing customizing my setup, breaking things and then finding ways to fix them. Recently, I’ve also picked up woodworking, and I’ve made a few bowls and spoons!

Experience⌗

Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Software Engineering Lab @ Maryland (SEAM)

August 2023 - May 2024 :: ksam

+internship +research +LLMs +software-engineering

Currently, I’m working as a research assistant with SEAM, where I’m researching the applications of design-thinking to decision-making problems, with NLP and LLM based techniques.

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Software Development Intern @ Verisign

May 2023 - August 2023 :: ksam

+internship +javascript +performance-testing +software-development

In the summer of 2023, I interned at Verisign, where I developed a comprehensive performance testing platform.

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SWE Internship @ Thomson Reuters

June 2022 - May 2023 :: ksam

+internship +java +javascript +software-development

Over the summer of 2022 and throughout the next school year, I worked as a Software Engineering Intern at Thomson Reuters on their tax research product, Checkpoint.

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