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United States

Seattle, WA, US

- Built Python programs to implement and compare three state-of-the-art software test case generation strategies using large language models (LLMs) on Amazon Bedrock

Hawthorne, California, US

- Refactored and deployed a service in the Starlink satellite collision avoidance pipeline which uploads Ephemeris Messages (info about a satellite’s propagated position) to a third party website that calculates future collisions- Gained familiarity with writing gRPC requests/responses, tracking metrics with Prometheus, building and testing with Bazel.

Lexington, MA, US

- Analyzed and improved a machine learning network converting 2D images to 3D images on relevant data; performed resolution and sensitivity experiments on another network classifying vehicles- Helped collimate a 532 nm laser to measure photon efficiency of an Avalanche Photodiode Array (APD)

- Developed an interactive story-telling website from scratch using React, Node.js, and MongoDB, with two teammates- Worked on both front-end and back-end: creating API endpoints, writing get and post requests, designing and implementing user interface, etc.

Los Angeles, CA, US

- As one of two MIT interns, I created an impact framework for the Homeboy Venture and Jobs Fund, which acquires enterprises to employ graduates of the Homeboy reentry program for previously gang-affiliated and incarcerated people- Identified important success metrics and created two surveys to collect indicator data

- Conducted research in enumerative combinatorics with two partners on analyzing extractable tree statistics from the Bernardi polynomial, an adaption of the chromatic quasi symmetric function for unlabeled acyclic digraphs- Won an outstanding poster award as a group of high schoolers at the 2020 Joint Math Meetings conference among ~300 undergraduate groups

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

- One of 50 in the nation; I wrote an 18-page topology research paper studying optimal placement of heat sources on a parallelogram torus to reach equilibrium at the fastest rate, using Fourier series and Mathematica modeling- Invited back as a teaching assistant where I developed new curriculum to teach technical skills like LaTeX, Unix/Linux, and Beamer.

- Wrote a research paper on differential geometry under the mentorship of Prof. Damin Wu of University of Connecticut, in which I gained insight on Carathéodory's Conjecture through studying new surfaces with algebra and mathematical modeling- Paper on arXiv.org with ID 2010.10259, won Global Gold in Math at S. T. Yau High School Science Awards 2020

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

- Joined Deformable Mirror (DeMi) mission to image exoplanets under the guidance of Prof. Kerri Cahoy at MIT- Worked on optics data processing project fitting Zernike coefficients to a set of real data representing mirror surface distortion due to laser beams

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

- Took 20 undergraduate level math courses in representation theory, sheaf cohomology, linear algebra, tropical geometry, etc.

Bachelor Of Science In Computer Science

High School Diploma