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I am a 2024 graduate of UC San Diego, where I am a member of the 2020 cohort of the Chancellor's Scholarship Program and the Dell Scholars Program for my great involvement in community service and excellent academic performance in high school. I am also a proud AVID alumnus of Poway High School. As a first generation low income student, the AVID program has helped me greatly to achieve my dream of attending college. To give back to my community, I became an AVID Tutor to assist AVID students on their road to college readiness. The mission of AVID greatly mirrors my passion in expanding access to higher education and its opportunities for underserved and underrepresented students.My passion for mathematics have developed throughout my life. In my curriculum, I have taken many rigorous undergraduate courses from calculus, linear algebra, proof-writing, topology, real analysis, abstract algebra, and complex analysis. As my interests lie in applied mathematics, I also took courses in mathematical statistics and optimization to improve my readiness in applied research. Currently, my area of interest in mathematics is computational mathematics and mathematical modelling.I have completed undergraduate research projects to show my passion for research. In 2023, I worked with Professor Alexis Akira Toda to study economic bubbles and their formation with a computational approach with the support of the McNair Program. From September 2023 to August 2024, I participated in UCEAP's Engineering and Science Program, a research-based study abroad program, at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. I developed a model of the movements of the masticatory muscles with optimal transport theory with Professor Hiroshi Suito of WPI-AIMR with the support of the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, Japan Student Services Organization, and the UCSD Emeriti Association International Study Scholarship. My goal is to obtain a PhD in applied mathematics and become an industry researcher.