Resume

Passionate about profiling, benchmarking, and optimizing multi-tier data movement, with a focus on designing high-performance, scalable storage systems for scientific computing and next-generation AI workloads.Looking for a full-time position starting from August 2026.

General Information

Full Name Kevin Assogba
Affiliation Rochester Institute of Technology

Education

  • August 2026
    PhD in Computing & Information Sciences
    Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, US
    • Summary
      • Actively conducting research on results (numerical) and performance reproducibility in HPC applications. I am also interested in deep learning runtime performance modeling and optimization.
    • Advisors
      • M. Mustafa Rafique
      • Bogdan Nicolae

Experience

  • Summer 2025
    Systems Software Engineer Intern
    Micron Technology Inc, Austin, TX, US
    • Conducted an in-depth study of agentic AI systems (including design, implementation, benchmarking, and performance analysis) to assess their impact on HBM and DDR bandwidth and capacity, introducing their potential for market expansion.
  • 2022 - 2025
    Visiting Ph.D. Student
    Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois, US
    • Led two research projects on I/O performance optimization in HPC and deep learning, applying checkpointing, advanced data structures, and GPU-aware scheduling to enhance reproducibility, reduce makespan, and improve resource utilization.
  • 2021 - Present
    Graduate Research Assistant
    Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, US
    • Developed performance profiling and data movement optimization solutions to support cloud-native and serverless deep learning workloads, focusing on modeling, scheduling, and accelerating data movement across multi-tier memory systems.

Honors and Awards

  • 2024
    • Graduate Alumni Scholarship, RIT Computer Science Department
  • 2023
    • Best Paper Finalist at HiPC conference
    • ACM & IEEE Travel Grants for conference participation
  • 2021
    • Doctoral Student Excellence Award, RIT
  • 2018
    • Fulbright Foreign Student Program

Community Service and Volunteering

  • Peer Review.
    • IEEE Access
    • Knowledge-Based Systems
    • Euro-Par'2022
  • Volunteering.
    • Student Volunteer at Cluster'23
    • Student Volunteer at SC'22 & SC'23
    • Lead Student Volunteer at SC'24 SC'25