Darren Ni
Aspiring Software Engineer
ABOUT
Hi! I'm Darren, an aspiring software engineer! I'm a first-generation student at Emory University pursuing a degree in Computer Science with experience in NLP and Generative Code Applications. This past summer I worked at Google to help improve the foundational code models behind Gemini and CodeGemma and developed an agent.
SKILLS & EXPERTISE
Programming
Backend: Java, Python, C
Frontend: HTML, CSS, JS
Technologies: Git, Bash, CUDA, SQL PyTorch, Tensorflow
Natural Language Processing
Large Language Models,
Dialogue Systems,
Information Retrieval,
Conversational Agents
Prompt Engineering
Mathematics
Discrete Mathematics,
Probability and Statistics,
Linear Systems and Optimization,
Graph Theory
Numerical Analysis
Code AI
Code Completion Models
Code Generation Models
Code Agents
Code Semantics
Gemini, One Recipe Models
Projects
Code Semantic Agent
Lead development of the Code Semantic Agent project at Google, a graph-based agentic framework that enables downstream code agents to efficiently navigate, interact, and understand large complex codebases with Gemini.
CodeSEA leverages Code Syntax Trees and stack-graphs algorithms to create a mapping of programmatic entities ad their relationships. CodeSEA also curates new and diverse SFT datasets specifically tailored for long-context coding tasks. These datasets will serve as a crucial resource for 1) bootstrapping the CSEA's agentic behavior to improve Gemini's code semantic understanding and 2) improve the performance of existing Google AI code products like Colab, Project IDX, and Android Studio.
This project was acheived in close collaboration with senior researchers, engineers, and product managers from Google AI Development Assistance (AIDA), Labs, Gemini, DeepMind (GDM), and UX.
EDUCATION
2021 - 2024
Emory University
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Atlanta, GA.
2021 - 2022
Oxford College of Emory University
Associate of Arts
Oxford, GA.
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
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2023 International Collegiate Programming Contest Southeast USA Region Medalist
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2022, 2023 NJCAA Cross Country National Championship Qualifier
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2020 National Academic Quiz Bowl (NAQT) Small School National Championship 3rd place team
