Joseph Skantz
University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.S. Computer Science (Jan. 2026 - May 2027)
Focus: Machine Learning Systems Engineering
B.S. Computer Science (Sep. 2021 - Dec. 2025)
Featured Projects
HPC-Accelerated Music Recommender
ML pipeline (Matrix Factorization). CUDA + cuBLAS training/inference, benchmarked against CPU baselines.
GPT-2 From Scratch
PyTorch GPT-2: hand-built attention and transformer blocks, verified to token-level parity with HuggingFace's reference.
More coming soon...
Recent Coursework
Spring '26
- CS 759 High Performance Computing for Applications in Engineering
- CS 760 Machine Learning
- CS 532 Matrix Methods in Machine Learning
Fall '26
- CS 839 Advanced Topics in Reinforcement Learning
- CS 639 Systems Architecture for Quantum Computers
- CS 771 Learning-Based Methods for Computer Vision
Spring '27
TBD