A bit about me

I love turning ideas into delightful systems, especially through data, algorithms, and models.

Snapshot

CS + Financial Engineering @ WashU RA @ WashU Medicine Head TA @ WashU Incoming MLE Intern @ TikTok Prev MLE Intern @ Meituan Research • LLMs

Now

  • Building production-ish ML + systems with a bias for speed & clarity.
  • Interests: LLM orchestration, RAG, agentic systems.

Outside work

  • Songwriting • creative writing
  • Backpacking (Death Valley is a favorite)
  • Always learning, always shipping

Tech Stack

Hover any tag to see my comfort level; the ring and label live-update.

Programming

~90%
Python Java C/C++ JavaScript HTML/CSS R MATLAB Bash

ML / Data

~86%
PyTorch TensorFlow Scikit-learn Hugging Face OpenCV NumPy Pandas Matplotlib

Systems & Cloud

~82%
Docker Kubernetes AWS Azure MongoDB SQL GitLab CI/CD Linux

Journey — Spotlight Timeline

Milestones grow as you scroll.

May 2026

TikTok

Incoming Machine Learning Engineer Intern
September 2025

WashU School of Medicine

Undergraduate Research Assistant
June 2025

Meituan

Machine Learning Engineer Intern
April 2025

WashU McKelvey School of Engineering

Head Teaching Assistant
December 2024

WashU Computational Imaging Group

Undergraduate Researcher
January 2024

WashU McKelvey School of Engineering

Teaching Assistant; Academic Mentor
August 2023

Washington University in St. Louis

B.S. in Computer Science; Second Major in Financial Engineering
August 2020

The Athenian School

High School Student

Teaching

I lead, mentor, and build course infra. Ping me about projects or research!


Head TA

CSE 247 — Data Structures & Algorithms

[Spring 2024 - Spring 2026] Lead all studio sections, run grading, host office hours, support course infra for 300+ students per semester.

TA

CSE 514 - Data Mining

[Fall 2025] Managed grading and hosted office hours, guided students on data analysis and machine learning methods.

Grading TA

ESE 417 - Intro to Machine Learning

[Fall 2025] Manage grading for written and programming assignments.

Prev Assistant Instructor

ESE 326 - Probability and Statistics for Engineers

[Spring 2025] Hosted office hours and subsections.

Prev TA

CSE 247R - Seminar: Data Structures and Algorithms

[Spring 2025 - Fall 2024] Lectured the main sections.

Honors & Awards

A few highlights that shaped my craft.

S.-T. Yau Science Awards (CS)

Gold Prize (Top 1%)

Mathematical Contest in Modeling

Honorable Mention

Physics Unlimited Premier Competition

11th in North America

Howard Nemerov Scholarship

4-Year Scholarship @ WashU

Dean’s List

All semesters @ WashU

Let’s build something

Please don’t get overly creative with the spelling of my first name.

Contact Info

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Source: OpenAI, “Your Year with ChatGPT”, 2025.
Song cover

Paused “Tori no Uta”

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