Ruslana

I am an incoming CS PhD student to EPFL, supported by an EDIC First-Year Fellowship. I recently completed my B.S. (2025) and M.S. (2026) in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, where I had the privilege of being taught by and working with Ioannis Gkioulekas. My current research interests lie in differentiable rendering and GPU hardware acceleration, though I have strong interest in computational photography intersections. Previously, I interned twice within Apple’s Silicon Engineering Group, on the FPGA Platform Engineering and GPU Shader Core Design Verification teams.

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
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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