Hi, I'm Bala.

Portrait of Bala Vinaithirthan

About

At Applied Intuition, I work on autonomy models and the challenges of bringing hardware and software to production.

At Stanford, I studied Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.

Projects and Work

OOPSLA 2026

FILTR: Compiling Bioinformatics Recurrences

Co-authored a domain-specific language and compiler that separates recurrence definitions from scheduling and pruning, generating efficient C++ implementations of bioinformatics algorithms.

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2024

Tenzir: High-Performance Data Systems

Built C++ streaming operators for Apache Arrow Feather and Parquet data and worked on projection-pushdown optimizations for composable security-data pipelines.

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CHI 2024

Moon Story: AR and LLMs for Education

Contributed to research on an augmented-reality science-learning experience that combines interactive storytelling with large language models, published at CHI 2024.

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2023 publication

UCSF: Proteomics Research

At UCSF's Burlingame Lab, I co-authored research improving the isolation and mass spectrometry identification of newly synthesized proteins.

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Davidson Fellowship

Cancer Drug Response Modeling

Researched machine-learning approaches to predicting cancer-drug response using molecular and gene-expression data; recognized with a Davidson Fellowship.

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