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Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Mountain View, California, United States

Mountain View, California, United States

Developed a terrain server which was utilized company-wide. Optimized server and usage or GeoTIFF files to be deployed to and used from the cloud. Iterated the design of the server to boost performance by reducing memory usage from over 100% to 11% and cold startup time from over 50 seconds to just 10 seconds.Seamlessly integrated terrain server to flight-route planning tool by graphing elevations and altitudes along a trajectory. Worked cross-functionally to ensure that tool met requirements.Rearchitected legacy tool to fit company needs by producing a first-person fly-through of routes. Deployed to Google Cloud Products via Terraform.

San Diego, California, United States

Researched methods to use machine learning models and pipelines to convert multi-modal input (audio, text, etc.) into 3D facial expressions and body gestures.

United States

Work with Professor Niema Moshiri on various web application projectsCreated a web app to visualize Covid-19 genome sequences (https://niema.net/SamBamViz/) and a python notebook to visualize global Covid-19 data for easy use by epidemiologists and biologistsUsed data compression work on open-source python package known as Empress (https://pypi.org/project/empress/) to allow for large visualizations of 2 million+ nodesImplement new plugins for Qiita (https://qiita.ucsd.edu/), a tool to help biologists manipulate and analyze genome sequences with 11k+ users and ~600k jobs ran, to allow Qiita users to work with Covid-19 genome sequencesLead a team to write a simplistic and easy-to-use config generation tool for one of Professor Moshiri's framework for viral transmission and evolution simulation (https://github.com/CatFish47/FAVITES-Lite)

Kyoto, Japan

Experimented with the collaboration of multiple large language models (LLMs) to compare how well they can perform a task in comparison to a singular LLM.Wrote a preliminary paper report on my findings for the experiment on interacting LLMsAssisted on another intern's project to utilize LLMs to translate human-readable cocktail recipes into machine code with the ultimate goal of having a robot read the code and recreate the recipe based off of its instructions.

Designing and developing a website for ACF community teams and members to share their games and creations.

United States

Instructing beginner students on tech entrepreneurship, from ideation to coding. Assisting the team in creating a chess game from scratch using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. The chess game is environmentally oriented with features to help users become more aware of environmental changes in an effort to combat the growing concerns of global warming and pollution. The ultimate goal is to compete and present at entrepreneurship competitions and possibly continue with the launch of the startup as a non-profit organization: Eco Hero

PhantaSpace is a startup that layers the metaverse on top of the real world, introducing ways for artists and brands to make NFT galleries and games in mixed realityLearned the basics of web3, NFTs, and cryptocurrencies from nothing over the course of a few weeksEquipped website with frontend code and smart contracts to create a custom NFT marketplace for users to easily view, trade, and sell their NFTs all on one siteCoded the frontend with React, used Solidity to write the smart contracts and Hardhat to test the contracts

The Summer Program for Incoming Students (SPIS) is a summer program for freshmen interested in getting a head start in computer science at UCSD.Mentored and led a group of 4 students in their learning, assignments, and projectsAs the one charge of the discord bot that automated help tickets and announcements, I refactored and maintained the Discord.py bot to handle any needs that aroseHelped all students when necessary in their final projects that involved game development, AI, and web development

United States

Programmed a collaborative code editor and a PDF editor for Qoom, a startup company creating a web application allowing for easy frontend and backend coding.

United States

Developed web application that parsed internet headers and displayed results on an interactive and easily-accessible user interface. Included many much-needed features and customization for debugging and testing purposes. Presented results to senior leadership.

Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

At a summer camp with a total of 300 kids and 32 counselors spread across 4 weeks, I was one of a few counselors in charge of leading not only the kids through activities and classes but also the counselors through their own activities with their own small groups of students. Even before the camp started, I was in charge of creating some of the material for the summer camp in regards to coding and public speaking.

California, United States

A budding entrepreneur team with the goal of solving procrastination via a web application and Google extension. It would give reminders to stay on track and focus on work whenever it detected that the user was getting off topic. I worked on the development of the app's core features. We competed successfully at multiple business competitions, earning us first place at the Model Entrepreneur Competition hosted by Columbia Business School in 2019 and a place as a Global Finalist at LaunchX's global summit hosted at MIT.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science, 3.95

Activities and Societies: UCSD Scholars Society Japanese Student Association Association for Computing Machinery UC San Diego

High School Diploma, 4.4

Activities and Societies: Game Design Club president, Gunn Speech and Debate