I am a fifth-year Ph.D student in the Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland.

My work is on efficient algorithms for machine learning and information retrieval. I am currently working on embedding models for raw sequencing data.

I am advised by Ramani Duraiswami and Tom Goldstein

Research & Publications

Ryan Synk, Monte Hoover, John Kirchenbauer, Neel Jain, Alex Stein, Manli Shu, Josue Melendez Sanchez, Ramani Duraiswami, Tom Goldstein, Exploiting Sparsity for Long Context Inference: Million Token Contexts on Commodity GPUs, 2025, https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06766

Pieter Ghysels, Ryan Synk, High performance sparse multifrontal solvers on modern GPUs,Parallel Computing,Volume 110,2022,

Resume

You can find my CV here