TA Spotlight: Abbie Cliche

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Abbie Cliche is a TA for CSE 6220: Intro to High-Performance Computing. Keep reading to learn more about Abbie!

What do you do professionally?

I graduated from Georgia Tech with a B.S. in Computer Engineering in 2021 and began my career writing signal processing software for tactical radios. Now I'm an FPGA engineer at a firm specializing in network security.

Why do you TA for OMSCS?

I love teaching and tutoring. I was a TA for Digital Design Lab as an undergraduate, and it was so much fun. I knew I wanted to TA again at the graduate level.

I was eager to TA for CSE 6220: Intro to High-Performance Computing in particular because I wanted the benefits of prolonged exposure to the material and the deeper understanding you gain when you teach something to someone else.

What is your advice for future OMSCS students?

Read documentation! Assignments in OMSCS expose you to a lot of cool tools, libraries, and platforms. The usage examples included in assignment instructions are not good substitutes for reading a tool's official documentation. Understanding the big picture of how something is supposed to work helps a ton when you have to debug and helps you write better code in the first place.

What hobby or activity are you looking forward to getting back to once you're done with OMSCS?

I'm looking forward to getting into archaeology as a hobby. I volunteered on a dig when I was an undergraduate student and had a blast. I'm very slowly working my way through Matthew Johnson's Archaeological Theory: An Introduction, and I have plans to volunteer in a local university's lab once I have more free time. I like that archaeology encompasses everything from running computer simulations to spending an afternoon in the dirt just trying to dig a level hole.

Find Abbie on...

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abbiecliche/