George Tsoukalas

George Tsoukalas

Math & CS Student at Rutgers University

About me!

Hi! I am a first year PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin. I am advised by Dr. Swarat Chaudhuri, and am interested in neurosymbolic techniques for automated theorem proving.

Projects

I work on personal projects regularly. In the past, I have:

  • Developed several indie games, including one which had over 20 million plays, and over 100,000 daily average users consistently.
  • CNNs for Jigsaw Puzzle Solving
  • Simulated Annealing for N-Queen problem variant
  • Implementation of minimax for an Othello Engine
  • a couple others, which can be found here

I am currently working on improving the second and fourth projects listed here. I am also fielding interest for the following project: build a land rover with metal detecting functionality - we will do some signal processing to categorize the detected buried object. I am looking for people with engineering background to start this project with me. Email if interested!

Research

While in undergrad, I conducted research with the Rutgers Automated Reasoning Lab, being advised by He Zhu. I worked on using differentiable programming for invariant synthesis for program verification. I have also participated in two NSF REUs. The first was remote, but through the College of William & Mary under the advisement of Charles R. Johnson, and working with Greyson Wesley and Zach Zhao. We studied some topics regarding eigenvalue assignment of certain graphs, and, among other things, proved several results for $k-$NIM trees, including characterization and enumeration. A paper was submitted for publication following our work that summer, and can be viewed here. The second was in person at San Diego State University, under the advisement of Chris O’Neill. We studied symmetric numerical semigroups, and more particularly properties of unimaximal faces of the Kunz Cone. We gave a characterization of the facets of these unimaximal faces and constructed some extremal examples of numerical semigroups on these faces.

Hobbies

As a hobby, I like to do metal detecting. I’ve tried my hand at other treasure-finding activites, like half dollar hunting, with less success. I also like to sing and was part of the Rutgers Casual Harmony Acapella Group.