M.S. Computer Science (Thesis), Specialization: Artificial Intelligence

B.S. Computer Science, Specialization: Intelligent Systems

Honors: Regents' Scholar; ICS Honors Program; Campuswide Honors Collegium

A.S. Computer Science

A.A. Mathematics

A.A. Economics

Honors: Honors Program; Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society

A.S. Mathematics

Honors: Summa Cum Laude

University of California, San Diego · Rose STL Lab, in collaboration with the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance

• Led biomechanical AI research, producing 2 first-author papers alongside 2 co-authored publications in top ML conferences such as ICLR, AAAI, and L4DC.
• Developed and maintained the lab's scalable data preprocessing pipeline, retargeting 3D motion points to high-fidelity musculoskeletal models across 50,000+ motion-text pairs.
• Designed distributed training and inference pipelines on Kubernetes clusters, optimizing data loading, model sharding, and batch inference to reduce end-to-end experiment runtime by 63%.

Western Digital · San Jose, California

• Led a 12-week internship project to enhance test reliability performance by designing a comprehensive research plan focused on algorithmic improvements.
• Developed a novel algorithm that reduces training time for reliability assessments by over 88%, utilizing weighted sorting to prioritize underutilized memory blocks.
• Integrated the new algorithm and associated tests into test suites, reducing HDD firmware testing time by over 10%.

Western Digital · Irvine, California

• Conducted weekly triage cases to resolve customer-reported performance degradation issues.
• Developed unit tests for newly implemented fixes, collaborating with various teams to uphold company standards.
• Performed code reviews focused on functionality and test accuracy, along with providing detailed feedback to ensure changes meet required standards.

Western Digital · Irvine, California

• Contributed to the Performance and Power team, developing an internship project to optimize the firmware's power consumption for enterprise HDDs.
• Improved the head seek algorithm for read and write workloads, resulting in a 7% reduction in power consumption across standardized tests.
• Presented my project and results to firmware leaders within Western Digital to promote the integration of my project into production.