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PhD, Computer Science

• Advisors: James Demmel and Aydın Buluç
• Funding: DOE CSGF (2021-2025)

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science & Mathematics

• Cumulative GPA: 3.9/4.3

Sparse Linear Algebra Intern

• Focus: rewrote large parts of cuSPARSELt, a library for structured sparse-dense matrix multiplication in machine learning, for new Blackwell GPUs.
• Also investigated custom semiring support with JIT linking for sparse matrix-vector multiplication.

Graduate Student Researcher

• Focus: randomized algorithms for sparse matrix and tensor factorization.
• Research is a blend of theoretical and applied work, with an emphasis on high-peformance implementation.

Visiting Student Researcher

• Focus: randomized Krylov method preconditioning.
• Wrote CUDA kernels for randomized butterfly transformations and incomplete LDL factorization, both used as preconditioners.

Software Engineering Intern

• Wrote protocols to relay market data from exchanges to traders.
• Made improvements to Iron, an in-house fork of the Mercurial VCS.

Caltech SURF Intern

• Focus: Continuous analogues of tensor decomposition and Gaussian process modeling, mentored by Rose Yu.

Ph11 Scholar

• Focus: GPU-based MRI simulations of diffusing water molecule spins in strong magnetic fields.
• Work published in a Journal of the German Chemical Society (code on Github).

• Berkeley Teaching Effectiveness Award

• Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor

• DoE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship

• Honorable Mention, NSF GRFP
• Thomas A. Tisch Prize for Undergraduate Teaching

• Caltech Hacktech Best Educational Hack (Presentr)

• Ph11 Scholar. Funded research position awarded for solving "hurdle" problems at Caltech.

• National Merit Scholar. Applied funds to study at Caltech.

• 2025: ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
• 2025: ACM SPAA Junior PC Member
• 2025: GrAPL IPDPS Workshop
• 2024: Neural Information Processing Systems
• 2024: Supercomputing 2024 Artifact Evaluation
• 2023: NLA with Applications, Wiley
• 2021: IEEE Signal Processing Letters

• General EECS Graduate Visit Day Co-organizer

• Reviewer, Berkeley SURF Research Applications
• Graduate Visit Day Area Co-Organizer, Scientific Computing

• Served on the student panel adjudicating cases of academic dishonesty.

• Read our final report here.

• 2023, 2022: Alameda County Science Fair
• 2022: USA Young Physicists Tournament
• 2020: Blair Middle School Science Fair

• Panelist for Berkeley L&S Graduate School Workshop

• CRS Science Ambassador: Gave virtual science presentations to students at Washington Elementary, Richmond

• Virtual Be a Scientist Mentor: Coached BUSD students through science projects weekly

• Caltech RISE Tutor: Tutored high school students from Pasadena Unified School district.