Ruslana

I am a fifth-year Masters student at Carnegie Mellon University, where my research in computer graphics is advised by Ioannis Gkioulekas. My M.S. degree (expected graduation in 2026 Spring) is funded by the Apple New Silicon Initiative scholarship. I received my B.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, where my major concentration was focused in computer architecture and software systems. My primary research interests are in differentiable rendering and GPU acceleration. Previously, I have interned twice in Apple's Silicon Engineering Group (FPGA Platform Engineering, GPU Shader Core Design Verification).

Projects


RetroCore: cycle-accurate FPGA Gameboy emulator
Ruslana Fogler, Bharathi Sridhar and Katherine Parry
Undergraduate capstone, Spring 2025
1st place capstone, David Tuma Best Undergraduate Lab Project
Path tracer with photon mapping in C++
Ruslana Fogler
Physics-Based Rendering (15468) course-long project, Spring 2025
GPU modern warp scheduler research literature review
Ruslana Fogler
Non-von Neumann Processors (15749) final project, Fall 2024
3D structured light with binary, gray, and XOR codes
Ruslana Fogler
Computational Photography (15463) final project, Fall 2024
RISClownin: custom RISC-V CPU
Ruslana Fogler, Bharathi Sridhar and Ankita Chatterjee
Intro to Computer Architecture (18447) course-long project, Spring 2024
GPU streamed audio convolution
Ruslana Fogler and Melinda Chen
Parallel Computer Architecture and Programming (15418) final project, Spring 2024
USB engine emulator
Ruslana Fogler
Logic Verification & Design (18341) final project, Fall 2023
FPGA UART sender/receiver with clock re-synchronization
Ruslana Fogler
Intro to Digital Logic & Hardware Systems (18240) lab project, Spring 2023

Teaching


Physics Based Rendering (15468)
Teaching Assistant
CMU, Spring 2026 (incoming semester)
Digital Signal Processing (18491)
Teaching Assistant
CMU, Spring 2024
Intro to Electrical & Computer Engineering (18100)
Teaching Assistant
CMU, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023

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