Research

For everything, see my Google Scholar. Here are the more recent ones!

• Quantum Time-Space Tradeoffs for Matrix Problems (link)
  • joint work with Paul Beame and Niels Kornerup.
• On the Rational Degree of Boolean Functions and Applications (link)
  • joint work with Vishnu Iyer, Siddhartha Jain, Matt Kovacs-Deak, Vinayak M. Kumar, Luke Schaeffer, and Daochen Wang
  • We spent some time thinking about old questions concerning how hard it is to represent a Boolean function as the ratio of two polynomials.
• Searching for Regularity in Bounded Functions (link)
  • joint work with Siddharth Iyer
  • We spent some time trying to find subspaces for which bounded functions become pseudorandom.
• Junta Distance Approximation with Sub-Exponential Queries (link)
  • joint work with Vishnu Iyer and Avishay Tal
  • Ever wondered how many (input, output) pairs from your function f you have to look at to estimate how close f is to only depending on a few of its inputs? So did we. This work gives an improved algorithm for answering this question for Boolean functions. If you are really interested in questions like this, you can check out my master's thesis, which starts with a survey of the previous work done on junta testing and (almost) all its variants.
  • Here's a talk I gave: link and here is slightly more detailed talk that Avishay gave: link

Teaching

• Berkeley:
  • I spent most of my teaching energy at Berkeley as (head) TA for Berkeley's course on probability and stochastic processes, EECS 126. I typed up some notes for the class, but they are most certainly far from perfect.
• Washington:
  
  • CSE 431: (Spring 2022, Spring 2024) Intro to Theory of Computation.
  • CSE 493Q: (Spring 2023) Intro to Quantum Computation.
  • CSE 312: (Summer 2024) Foundations of Computing II.

Older Projects

Before I became interested in theory, I dabbled in projects on islanding in energy grids, battery life maximization, and regression for biological datasets.

• Islanding and Self-Sufficiency of Block-Scale Microgrids link
• Aminy Ostfeld, Michael Whitmeyer, Alexandra Von Meier
• IEEE Green Technologies Conference (2018)


• EcoBlock: Grid Impacts, Scaling, and Resilience link
• Aminy Ostfeld, Alexandra Von Meier, Michael Whitmeyer, Mohini Bariya
• Full Report


• Reinforcement Learning-based Fast Charging Control Strategy for Li-ion Batteries link
• Saehong Park, Andrea Pozzi, Michael Whitmeyer, Hector Perez, Won Tae Joe, Davide M Raimondo, Scott Moura
• 2020 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)

Miscellaneous

• Discrepancy Minimization, a writeup on recent developments in algorithmic discrepancy minimization. Final Project for CS270 (Combinatorial Algorithms).
• Battery Life Utilizes LSTMs and Attention to predict the useful life of batteries. Final Project for CS182 (Deep Learning).
• Measurement-Based QC A writeup on various techniques for Measurement-Based Quantum Computing as well as few more recent results/implications.

I also started a blog recently, which you can find here. I plan on just talking about theoretical computer science and life there.