A Little About Me

Research Engineer at Harvey AI

Drummer, Guitarist, Martial Artist, and Amateur Gymnast

Previous Involvements

UC Berkeley M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). I was advised by Professor Kannan Ramchandran and am affiliated with the BAIR and BASICS labs.

UC Berkeley triple major B.A./B.S in Computer Science, Business Administration, and Statistics with a minor in Data Science

Algorithm Developer Intern at Hudson River Trading | Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

  • High Frequency Trading and ETF Arbitrage Desks

Software Engineer at an anonymous Avalanche-based DeFi Startup, with over $1 billion TVL at peak | Jun 2022 - Aug 2022

Head of Professional Development of Traders at Berkeley | Jan 2021 - May 2024

  • Currently leading new member integration and education
  • Previously President, where I ran the club as a whole and overhauled our Intro to Quant Finance Course, with over 150 students per semester
  • Previously Head of External, where I interfaced with sponsors to help run the Berkeley Trading Competition
  • Previously Development Lead, where I led and mentored 5 developers in designing a CLI-based market-making game

Founder and President of Poker at Berkeley | Aug 2023 - May 2024

Founder and President of Web Development at Berkeley | Mar 2020 - May 2024

  • Founded UC Berkeley’s first web-development focused organization, and was president for 3 semesters
  • Taught development and design to over 2000 students through education initiatives
  • Worked with over 30 startups and nonprofits as clients
  • Created a community of over 70 developers, creatives, and entreprenuers

Course Staff for Stat 135: Concepts of Statistics and IEOR 241: Risk Modeling | Feb 2022 - May 2023

Quantitative Trading Intern at IMC Trading | Jun 2022 - Aug 2022

  • Equity Options - Focus Desk

Quant Consultant at Blockchain at Berkeley | Feb 2022 - May 2022

  • Worked with osmosis.zone on a solution to decrease impermanent loss for liquidity providers

Teaching Assistant at the UC Berkeley EECS Department for CS 198-112, Introduction to Algorithmic Thinking and CS 198-099, Introduction to Full-Stack Development | Jun 2022 - Aug 2022

  • Founded and Ran Intro to Full-Stack Development, growing it to over 200 students per semester
  • Helped create content and run the Leetcode 101 course, preparing students for software engineering interviews

Quantitative Strategies intern at Goldman Sachs in the New York City Office | Jun 2022 - Aug 2022

  • Implemented new risk controls and sped up NSFI risk calculations by ~95%

Member of the board of directors for Carepath, a nonprofit connecting parents of children with mental disorders | Feb 2022 - May 2022

Product manager at Launchparty, a startup aiming to empower student entrepreneurship | Feb 2022 - May 2022

Frontend lead for Resource 19, a platform aiding hospitals in the fight against COVID-19 | Feb 2022 - May 2022

  • Mentioned in an article by VMWare CEO Pat Gelsinger
  • Mentioned in an article by the UC Berkeley EECS department
  • Confirmed the donation of 95,000+ masks and 6,000+ face shields, and 70+ PPE design uploads

Founder and President of Cloud at California | Feb 2022 - May 2022

Software Engineer at Hyperspec AI and the Netic Corporation | Feb 2022 - May 2022

Research Assistant and Software Developer for the Northwestern University high-energy physics department under the Geraci research group | Feb 2022 - May 2022

  • Aided in work towards the discovery of dark matter as part of the ARIADNE project

Sales at Blue Raven Solar | Feb 2022 - May 2022

Technical Skills

AI/ML Researcher, Software Engineer, Web Developer, Data Scientist, and Problem-Solver.

Specializations: AI/ML, Data Science, Web and Mobile Development

General Programming: Python, Java, C, JavaScript

Frontend Development: HTML/CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, React Native, Next.js

Backend Development: Python, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, REST APIs

DevOps: AWS, Git, Systems Architecting

Design: Figma

Relevant Coursework

Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

CS 298: LLM Safety and Interpretability

CS 285: Reinforcement Learning

CS 281A: Statistical Learning Theory

CS 182: Neural Networks

CS 189: Machine Learning

CS 188: Artificial Intelligence

CS 170: Algorithms

CS 191: Quantum Computing

CS 194: Decentralized Finance

CS 198: Algorithmic Thinking

Data 100: Principles and Techniques of Data Science

EECS 127: Optimization Models

EECS 70: Discrete Mathematics and Probability Theory

CS 61C: Computer Architecture

CS 61B: Data Structures

CS 61A: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

EECS 16A: Designing Information Devices and Systems I

EECS 16B: Designing Information Devices and Systems II

Data 8: Foundations of Data Science

Statistics, Math, and Physics

Math 191: Putnam Seminar

Stat 155: Game Theory

Stat 153: Timeseries

Stat 151A: Linear Models

Stat 150: Stochastic Processes

Data 140: Probability for Data Science

Stat 135: Concepts of Statistics

STAT 198: Introduction to Quantitative Finance

Physics 137A: Quantum Mechanics

MATH 54: Linear Algebra and Differential Equations

Business Administration

UGBA 196: Leading With Impact

UGBA 180: Real Estate

UGBA 107: Business Ethics

UGBA 106: Marketing

UGBA 105: Leadership

UGBA 104: Business Analytics

UGBA 103: Finance

UGBA 102B: Managerial Accounting

UGBA 102A: Financial Accounting

UGBA 101B: Macroeconomics

UGBA 101A: Microeconomics

UGBA 100: Business Communication

UGBA 10: Data and Decisions

UGBA 10: Principles of Business

Econ 1: Introduction to Economics

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