ABOUT ME

I was born in El Cajon, California and moved to Bellevue, Washington before starting school. I grew up swimming and competed throughout middle and high school on both my high school and club teams.

I graduated from Bellevue High School in 2024 and now study Computer Engineering and Computer Science at USC, where I research AI for robotics and computer vision through CAIS++.

The summer after my freshman year, I got the chance to intern at Infosys in their emerging technologies division. I worked under Chetana Amancharla - the Senior Technology Architect at Infosys - to research and develop proof of concepts for new AI systems leverging Federated Learning for more efficient and privacy-preserving model training.

While I was there I got the chance to experience so many new places: I travelled to Sri Lanka, the Andaman Islands, and numerous cities within India. I have learned that travelling is not a hinderance but helps me to maintain curiosity and flexibility in my research and development of new technologies.

Last summer, I worked at IBM as a software engineering intern and did some work in cyber security - namely I helped create an automated pipeline for IBM's detect-secrets code base. While I was there I looked into quantum computing as well. Outside of my internship I trained for an Ironman 70.3, meal prepped, read Alexandre Dumas' "The Three Musketeers", and met a ton of new people.