Kevin Patel

Scottsdale Unified School District

• Cover short and long-term assignments across 8 schools for grades K-12 • Follow lesson plans and maintain classroom routines established by regular teachers • Manage classrooms of 20-35 students across all subject areas • Requested by name as preferred substitute by 15+ teachers in the district • Completed 3 long-term assignments (4-8 weeks each) in math and science

Kumon Learning Center

• Tutored 20+ students weekly in math and reading from grades 1-8 • Assessed student progress and adjusted instruction to individual learning levels • Communicated with parents on student performance and areas for improvement

Camp Pinebrook

• Led daily activities for groups of 15-20 children ages 6-14 • Planned and facilitated outdoor education, sports, and arts programs • Managed camper behavior using positive reinforcement techniques

Arizona State University

Arizona Substitute Teaching Certificate, Fingerprint Clearance Card

• •• Support lead teacher in classroom of 24 students including 5 with IEPs
• •• Deliver small-group reading instruction to groups of 4-6 students 3x daily
• •• Implement behavior management strategies resulting in 40% reduction in classroom disruptions
• •• Prepare instructional materials, grade assignments, and maintain student progress records
• •• Supervise students during lunch, recess, and transitions between classes

• •• Provided 1-on-1 support for 3 students with autism spectrum disorder
• •• Assisted with implementation of individualized education plans (IEPs) across 4 classrooms
• •• Documented daily behavior observations and progress toward IEP goals
• •• Accompanied students to speech therapy, occupational therapy, and counseling sessions

• •• Supervised 25-30 children ages 5-12 in after-school enrichment program
• •• Led arts and crafts, STEM activities, and homework help sessions
• •• Communicated daily with parents regarding student behavior and achievements

Paraprofessional License, State of Ohio

• •• Teach graduate and undergraduate courses in Machine Learning, NLP, and Deep Learning (avg student eval: 4.7/5.0)
• •• Direct research laboratory of 5 PhD students, 2 MS students, and 8 undergraduate researchers
• •• Published 7 papers at premier conferences (NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP, ICML) since appointment, with 300+ citations
• •• Secured $800K NSF CAREER Award for research on efficient language model architectures
• •• Serve on department admissions committee and undergraduate curriculum redesign task force

• •• Developed novel sparse attention mechanism reducing transformer inference cost by 40% without quality degradation
• •• Co-authored paper accepted at NeurIPS 2022 as spotlight presentation (top 5% acceptance rate)
• •• Collaborated with 3 senior research scientists on production deployment of efficient inference techniques
• •• Filed provisional patent for attention pattern pruning algorithm with improvements on 4 benchmark tasks

• •• Conducted doctoral research on efficient transformer architectures under Prof. Christopher Manning
• •• Published 8 papers during PhD including 3 first-author publications at ACL and EMNLP
• •• Taught CS224N (Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning) as head TA for 2 quarters (400+ students)
• •• Secured $200K DARPA grant for research on low-resource language understanding

Dissertation: "Efficient Transformers for Long-Context Understanding." Advisor: Prof. Christopher Manning.

GPA: 4.8/5.0. Tau Beta Pi. Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (3 years). Valedictorian.