I'm a third-year student studying a Bachelor's of Science degree in Computer Science and Philosophy with a Minor in Mathematics at Northeastern University Khoury College of Computer Sciences. My journey thus far has been all about mastering my technical ability in computer science to maximize my positive, social impact in careful engineering. My academic history has been a messy conglomeration of competitive mathematics, consuming literature on tech, law & media and tinkering around a myriad of projects. My experiences defined my ultimate interest: Technology, democracy and social change. You will find me reading, making or talking about all things related them. Some recent activities that have given me fulfillment is serving as Executive Vice President at the TAMID Group on campus, working as a Software Engineering Intern at UKG, and keeping up with my reading and personal projects.
My early education was founded on the principle that math was everything. Ever since I was young, I participated in competitive math teams, went to Idea Math Camp, and then much later, a six-week intensive summer studies at Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics, where I really began to appreciate the quirks and scope of the field. I took my interests into computer science, where I enjoyed the marriage of theoretical thinking and practical application. In 2020, I was accepted into the MIT PRIMES's Computer Science Research track where I worked with Jules Drean, a graduate student at MIT CSAIL, on a project called Non-Fungible Objects (NFO): Hard-to-Counterfeit Virtual Assets Based On Trusted-Hardware. At Northeastern, I expanded my knowledge about computer science into the world of full stack web development and AI at the TAMID Group on campus and at Samsung AI. I soon became obsessed with computer science as it became the medium for both my quantitative and creative expression. During the same year, I read Superintelligence: Risks, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom and became enraptured by tech, ethics, and society. My activities this summer reflected all my interests: I strengthened my technical literacy at a Software Engineering Internship at Ampion, PBC and worked with Professor Patterson at the Northeastern University to work on his code synthesizer research project combating automation bias, and bringing AI into programming languages.
Title: The Laws of Cyberspace
Author: Lawrence Lessig
Caption: I met him IRL, once
Title: Dune Series
Author: Frank Herbert
Caption: All time favorite book series
Title: Ender's Game
Author: Olson Scott Card
Caption: All time favorite book
Title: The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism
Author: Gideon Lewis-Kraus
Caption: Is Effective Altruism Good?
Title: The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Author: Dinaw Mengestu
Caption: Simply gorgeous writing
Title: Blame!
Author: Tsutomu Nihei
Caption: Illustrator of many of these arbitrary images...
Title: Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Caption: The human spirit!
Title: Oyasumi Punpun
Author: Inio Asano
Caption: Tragedy 100
Title: Kolmogorov Complexity and Our Search for Meaning
Author: Noson S. Yanofsky
Caption: Math and the meaning of life
Title: The Island of Seawomen
Author: Lisa See
Caption: Jeju Island & Japanese Colonization
Title: Stand Out of Our Light
Author: James William
Caption: Attention is Everything
Title: Speculative Everything
Author: Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby
Caption: Purpose of Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming
Title: Sapiens
Author: Yuval Noah Harari
Caption: A Brief History of Humankind
Title: So Human an Animal
Author: René Dubos
Caption: Science of humanity
Professional Experience
Research Engineerer @ Plural Connections Group
Working at Northeastern University under Professor Nabeel Gillani at lab aimed to increase pluralism through education and restructuring social media. Tasked as the principle engineer to create interventions to increase intellectual humility online. Using React, Flask, MongoDB to build web app that mimics the Reddit-platform. Deployed on AWS EC2 Instance using Gunicorn and Nginx. User tested and pending launch to hundreds of research participants.
Software Engineering Intern @ UKG
Worked at Lowell HQ as a Software Engineering Intern on Cloud Observability and Realiability Tooling team. Built autonomations to resolve daily memory alerts and contructed new Grafana Cloud dashboards to help migration from on-prem services to cloud. Leveraged cloud observability tools like Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform, ELK stack, Grafana, InfluxDB, Splunk, Datadog, and Cronjobs in tickets.
Software Engineering Intern @ Ampion
Worked on the Subscriber Experience team to conduct full rehaul and modernization of main website. Optimized SEOs and connected website code to Content Management System (DatoCMS). Performed data analysis on customer issues on Salesforce and website analytics from Google Analytics, presenting findings to team and executive management.
Multivariable Calculus Teacher Assistant
Graded weekly quizzes for over 60 students and provided solution manual feedback for Professor Seo.
Leadership Roles
Executive Vice President of TAMID
Standardizing processes for the back-end logistics of TAMID Consulting Club and building out a Recruitment dashboard on Notion using automations.
VP of Operations & Finance of TAMID
Standardizing processes for the back-end logistics of TAMID Consulting Club and building out a Recruitment dashboard on Notion using automations.
Tech Consulting Foundations Instructor of TAMID
Educated a weekly class of 13 students on web development fundamentals: Git/Version Control, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and APIs. Included 3-part homework of varying difficulties.
Research
Research Assistant to Professor Daniel Patterson
Proposing an environment to prevent automation bias for integrated human-AI optimized Python programming leveraging ChatGPT API. Built prototype and deployed it to be used by 50 students in a lab. Submitted paper to The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming journal.
Human Autonomy in Digital Social Networks and Recommender Systems
Independent research project advised by Professor Patterson exploring autonomy, a new framework for defining of autonomy, and applying it to social media platforms that use recommender systems. Created and presented poster at RISE Undergraduate Conference Presentation on April 11th, 2024.
Computer Science Researcher at MIT CSAIL
Invented research paper on secure hardware to ensure digital ownership on virtual objects using crytopgrahy. Specified 3 security mechanisms to unwanted side-channels and logic using cryptographic protocols analysis.
Written Work
Erosion of Autonomy in Algorithmic Recommendation Systems
A dissection of the erosion of autonomy in algorithmic recommendation systems, how they are incompatible, and state an urgency of legal action.
Free Speech is a Triangle Literature Review
A summary of the Jack Balkin piece "Free Speech is a Triangle," where I propose a technological solution of using decentralized social platforms to safeguard users' freedom of speech against what he deemed "new-speech regulation" harms.
Deeper Look into Technical Projects
Social Cues Intervention on Reddit-Like Platform @ Plural Connections Group
Deployed and developed full-stack app on AWS mimicking Reddit to test hypothesis on use of social cues to increase intellectual humility in online discussions on U.S. politics. Used React, Flask, AWS EC2, and MongoDB for web development, and worked closely with Dartmouth NLP Group to develop and fine-tune an intellectual humility classifier on political speech. Worked on k-shot learning and prompt engineering ChatGPT to improve classification and the intervention.
Truth Agent @ Google Gemini Developer Competition
Pioneering browser extention AI system to foster critical thinking skills by measuring real-time online misinformation on the page. Submitted to Google Gemini Developer Competition, pending results.
EduFlex @ NU AI Hackathon
1st Place Winner. Empowering public free online computer science education to lower the barrier of entry for low-income students who don’t have access to prestigious university resources using NLP.
Tripartite Soul AI
Diagnosis your tripartite soul and speak with Plato to make your soul most just. Uses Plato's Republic and his dialogues.
Hexagonal Othello Game
Built the game Othello on a hexagonal board using Java and Java Swing. Used model-view-controller and adapter object-oriented design pattern.
Synth Research
Created prototype which queries python code from ChatGPT to match function specification. Wrote testing system which requeries ChatGPT with error messages with faulty implementations. Deployed Blackjack Game lab for 50 students to use to test the prototype and provide feedback on their experience.
Ampion Web App Reconfiguration
Worked closely with marketing and design teams to implement design of new modern website navigation bar. Improved internal system operations by connecting webpages to DatoCMS, Content Management System. Configured URLs, landing pages, metadata based on best Search Engine Optimization practices.
Non-Fungible Objects (NFO): Hard-to-Counterfeit Virtual Assets Based On Trusted-Hardware
Research that introduces a new technology for virtual assets by securely tying their initialization, development and exchange to our secure hardware. We assert that our version of virtual ownership is stronger than Non-Fungible Tokens' (NFT) version.
High Resolution Image Cropping
Tool to crop images without losing resolution. Used optimized graph traversal techniques and object-oriented design principles to remove seams of the least important pixels on an image, preventing loss of resolution quality of the image when cropping.
Multilingual Speech Generation
Lowers the language barrier by enabling personalized conversation, which can provide speakers of other languages better access to fair education, employment, public services, and medical attention. Achieved 83% speech identification accuracy using a KNN model and through researching zero-shot generation.