Sophomore @ WashU — joint Business + Computer Science.
I am passionate about data analytics and technology. I believe that their intersection advances society through solving global issues, optimizing individuals' lifestyles, and providing meaningful insights.
A data platform for prediction markets. It pulls in 22M+ trades across 400K+ markets and stores them so I can test trading ideas against real history instead of guessing.
My first idea for an edge didn't hold up when I tested it, so I moved on. The next one did — a pricing gap worth about 5.8¢ per $1 contract, which held up across 21K simulated trades. One of the 900+ automated tests caught a data bug before it could skew results.
A small language model, built and trained from scratch in PyTorch on 1.35B tokens — no pre-built model, just the underlying pieces (attention, tokenizing, training loop) put together by hand.
I then pulled 96K+ research papers and fine-tuned the model on them, improving its accuracy on that material by 32.6% — at the cost of being a bit worse at everyday language, which felt worth being honest about.
Allowing AI to hear music. AI's frequent text patterns, such as adding suspense or drastic juxtapositions, makes it seem like AI would interpret music with some form of false "emotion."
Rather than describing the music, this script transforms mp3s and m4as into frames of representation of the sound waves.
~$10K in builds for classmates, ~$2K profit — plus the Linux server that runs Polyedge.
A fellowship where I talked to users and researched how to make AI tools easier to use.
Placed in the top 5% presenting to judges from Olin Business School.
BUCS joint program (2% acceptance rate) · 3.7 GPA · Dean's List ×2 · $30K merit scholarship · 2nd place, WashU Startup Pitch Competition ($1,250).
Analyzed CDC public-health data with Dr. Yusen Zhai to study how social factors influence mental-health outcomes.
Taught Java fundamentals, debugging, and OOP to 20+ students as an interim educator; led labs and reviewed assignments.
Open to internships, research, and interesting side projects.