Worked under Dr. Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite on multilingual natural language processing for education, focusing on idiomatic expressions.

World Science Scholars (WSS), an esteemed program of the World Science Festival, selects around 40 high school students with extraordinary mathematical talent across the globe, who are identified as exceptionally gifted and passionate students with the potential to grow and make a real difference in this world. The program provides them with an unparalleled opportunity to apply their abilities to unexplored disciplines. Guided by world-renowned experts, scholars examine ways that advanced mathematics skills can be applied to solve complex challenges in a wide range of scientific fields.

Intern at the Center for Control, Dynamical Systems, and Computation. Continued distributed optimization and communication deficiencies research from RMP.

Researcher at the Center for Control, Dynamical Systems, and Computation (CCDC) at UCSBAccepted as part of 75 student cohort (~3% acceptance rate) for the 6-week Research Mentorship Program directed by Dr. Lina Kim. Researched federated machine learning networks and communication deficiencies. Wrote a research paper and presented at the RMP Research Symposium on 8/4/23

501c(3) nonprofit organization, focusing on lowering the correlation between students’ test scores/grades and their financial situation

Conducted independent research under MIT graduate student. Engineered multimodal prompting pipeline for image captioning and visual question answering on objects in images. Published paper in the Curieux Academic Journal. Used the pipeline to develop an app to help the visually impaired observe their household surroundings, with voice assistance accessibility. Published this open-source project on Github.

Team leader, led a group of four students to design a more inclusive, less biased Spotify music recommendation prototype using the ANNOY algorithm, presented findings to a panel of qualified industry experts and judges, including those from Spotify.