Alexander (Alex) Kranias

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Hi, I'm Alex. I'm a CS student at Georgia Tech.

I'm interested in AI, systems, and computer architecture.

In my free time, I enjoy cameras, rowing, and the outdoors.

Currently I'm

Aug 2024 - Dec 2024 Working at AMD as an AI Inference Software Engineer Intern (Fall 2024) on the Triton Kernels team. Developing efficient GPU kernels for transformers — FlashAttention-2, Rotary Embeddings, Sliding Window Attention, and more.

Previously I

September 2024 Won "Best Hardware Hack" at HackMIT 2024. Built telepathy: a non-invasive, fully private silent speech interface between people and machines.
May 2024 - Aug 2024 Developed ROS2 C++ simulation packages of vehicle ad-hoc networks for autonomous mobile industrial robots at Vermeer.
July 2023 - July 2024 Co-founded Sideline: a sports tech startup bringing multimodal vector search and AI scouting to coaching and recruitment. We demoed our product to 17 NCAA colleges, received over 5 million views online, and pitched to the NBA VP of Strategy.
Jan 2024 - May 2024 Researched novel cache replacement algorithms to mitigate row hammer attacks with Anurag Kar advised by Professor Hyseoon Kim in Georgia Tech's HPArch Lab.
February 2024 Won 1st Place at Treehacks 2024 for the Entertainment & Interaction Track. Built 3dReal: an iOS app creating NeRFs from networks of mobile phones.
Aug 2023 - Dec 2023 Assisted with Professor Hyseoon Kim's OMSCS GPU HW/SW course. Learned a bunch about GPU architecture, CUDA/OpenCL, warp scheduling, and wrote the course's Tiled Matrix Multiplication kernel assignment.
September 2023 Won 1st Place at HackMIT 2023 for the Terra Award. Created Bite: a computer vision enabled watch that tracks your daily nutritonal intake for you.
Oct 2022 - Sept 2023 Created tools and benchmarks for LLMs at DuckAI: DuckTrack and ARB.
May 2023 - July 2023 Built an LLM-powered web app that deploys personalized fine-tuned GPT models for financial advisors and investment bankers at Raymond James Financial.
Sept 2019 - Dec 2021 Co-founded Rentathon: a person-to-person rental marketplace for household items.