Builder and researcher @ UCI
I love building things — there's something about watching an idea take shape and then seeing it flourish that feels like nurturing something alive.🌱
I study CS & math at UC Irvine, where I research perception and biometrics. Three published papers so far — identifying people from brainwaves, detecting brain injuries, improving fetal heart monitoring. I've interned at Meta through the MLH Fellowship and at Crusoe. I'm drawn to problems where the bottleneck isn't motivation or talent, but rather access.✦
You'll usually find me on a trail or writing about things I'm still figuring out.🌿
email · linkedin · github · google scholar
Things I've built:
Highlights
2024 — Notive: Won 1st place at UCI's AI Innovation Challenge. An AI note-taking app that captures lectures and generates study materials — making quality education tools accessible to all students.
Next.jsReactTypeScriptOpenAI
Press: UCI News · ICS · Watch finals pitch
Next.jsReactTypeScriptOpenAI
Press: UCI News · ICS · Watch finals pitch
2022 — EEG Biometric Identification: Published in MDPI Sensors. A low-cost authentication system using brainwaves — proving secure identity doesn't require expensive hardware.
PythonPyTorchTensorFlowXGBoostscikit-learnMNElibrosapyprepTensorPACNumPySciPypandas
Read paper · Code
PythonPyTorchTensorFlowXGBoostscikit-learnMNElibrosapyprepTensorPACNumPySciPypandas
Read paper · Code
2025 — Question Video Explainer: A 5-agent pipeline that turns questions into animated explainer videos with voiceover. Planning → code generation → self-correction → rendering → evaluation.
PythonOpenAIOpenRouterManimmanim-voiceovergTTSFFmpegLaTeXOpenCVNumPy
Code · Watch demo
PythonOpenAIOpenRouterManimmanim-voiceovergTTSFFmpegLaTeXOpenCVNumPy
Code · Watch demo
Hackathon builds
2024 — LAILA: Built at Cal Hacks 11.0. An AI that turns natural language into automated web actions — giving everyone the power of automation.
PythonGeminiPerplexityDeepgramTwilioKafkaSingleStoreSQLAlchemySeleniumPhoenix
Code · Devpost
PythonGeminiPerplexityDeepgramTwilioKafkaSingleStoreSQLAlchemySeleniumPhoenix
Code · Devpost
2024 — Geoflare: Won Best Use of Publicly Available Data Set at IrvineHacks 2024. Real-time wildfire response using computer vision — helping communities access critical risk data faster.
PythonPyTorchYOLOFastAPIFirebaseGeminiGoogle MapsKaggleGoogle Cloud
Code · Devpost · Live demo
PythonPyTorchYOLOFastAPIFirebaseGeminiGoogle MapsKaggleGoogle Cloud
Code · Devpost · Live demo