Tanner Andrulis

Education

2021-2027 est. Ph.D. Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2023 Certificate in Innovation Leadership. Santa Clara University.
2023 Forklift Certified
2021-2023 M.S. Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 5.0/5.0 GPA
2017-2021 B.S Computer Engineering, Purdue University West Lafayette
- 3.97/4.0 GPA, Graduated Summa Cum Laude
2017-2021 B.S Mathematics, Purdue University
- 3.97/4.0 GPA, Graduated Summa Cum Laude

May-August 2024 research Intern, Nvidia
May-August 2020 Digital Hardware Intern, Qualcomm Technologies, Incorporated
- Worked with the digital design infrastructure team to develop processor-memory interface systems.
- Developed tools to automate digital design processes for processor-memory interface systems.
May-August 2019 Software and Controls Intern, Eaton Corporation
- Developed diagnostic software and automating scripts to improve testing process of semi-truck control software.
- Authored tools for retrieval of memory contents and diagnosis of errors in semi-truck computer memory.

2024 Graduate Teaching Assistant, MIT 6.5930 Hardware Architectures for Deep Learning
2021 Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Purdue ECE 50863-EDX Computer Network Systems
- Led the design of new student programming projects based on cutting-edge computer network research.
- Tested and modified student assignments for online instruction.
- Designed systems to support Internet Systems Lab research. Implemented lightweight methods to enable transmission and sharing of flows over multiple tunnels in software-defined networks.

2024 Samsung Semiconductor Fellowship
2024 ISPASS 2024 Best Paper Award: “CiMLoop: A Flexible, Accurate, and Fast Compute-In-Memory Modeling Tool”
2022 MIT Siebels Scholar Fellowship
2021 MIT Irwin Mark Jacobs and Joan Klein Jacobs Presidential Fellow
2021 Purdue Undergraduate Excellence Award awarded for contributions in creating the ECE-50863 EDX Course
2017 Purdue Fessenden Trott Scholarship
2017 Purdue Presidential Scholarship

2021-Present MIT Rock Climbing Team
2021-Present MIT GSB Organizer
- Social event organizer for the MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
2021-2023 MIT Edgerton House Board Member and Resources Chair
2029-2021 Purdue IEEE Remote Operated Vehicle Team
- Designed control algorithms for autonomous submarine thruster systems. Enabled submarine to do a backflip for the first time in competition.
- Developed computer vision algorithms that enabled autonomous submarine to recognize and react to underwater objects.
2018-2019 Purdue IEEE Aerial Robotics Team
- Lead designer of collision-avoidance algorithms to pilot autonomous planes.

Date	Title	Author
May 7, 2024	CiMLoop: A Flexible, Accurate, and Fast Compute-In-Memory Modeling Tool. ISPASS 2024	Tanner Andrulis, Vivienne Sze, Joel S. Emer
May 7, 2024	Architecture-Level Modeling of Photonic Deep Neural Network Accelerators. ISPASS 2024	Tanner Andrulis, Gohar Irfan Chaudhry, Vinith M. Suriyakumar, Joel S. Emer, Vivienne Sze
Apr 9, 2024	Modeling Analog-Digital-Converter Energy and Area for Compute-In-Memory Accelerator Design	Tanner Andrulis, Ruicong Chen, Hae-Seung Lee, Joel S. Emer, Vivienne Sze
Jul 1, 2023	Efficient, Accurate, and Flexible PIM Inference through Adaptable Low-Resolution Arithmetic! Master’s Thesis 2023	Tanner Andrulis, Vivienne Sze, Joel S. Emer
Jun 27, 2023	Efficient AI Inference With Analog Processing In Memory. CSAIL Alliances Meet 2023	Tanner Andrulis
Jun 17, 2023	RAELLA: Reforming the Arithmetic for Efficient, Low-Resolution, and Low-Loss Analog PIM: No Retraining Required! ISCA 2023	Tanner Andrulis, Vivienne Sze, Joel S. Emer