UC Davis  ·  Double Major: CS + Statistics  ·  ML Track  ·  SF Bay Area

Building at
the frontier
of ML.

Research engineer in the making. I write CUDA kernels, train models, win hackathons, and ship products people actually use.

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9,817+
HF Downloads
1M+
Views Driven
3×
Hackathon Wins
PyTorch CUDA Computer Vision Reinforcement Learning Next.js ICIEM 2026 HuggingFace UC Davis Open Source Hackathon Champion GPU Systems SF Bay Area PyTorch CUDA Computer Vision Reinforcement Learning Next.js ICIEM 2026 HuggingFace UC Davis Open Source Hackathon Champion GPU Systems SF Bay Area
Research
Ongoing
DARE Lab
UC Davis  ·  Prof. Junshan Zhang, Dechen Gao
Developing AerialNavBench, an open aerial autonomy benchmark and evaluation platform for embodied aerial agents. Inspired by NavBench and CarDreamer, the project studies and compares agent architectures including world-model-based approaches for drone navigation in realistic disaster-response scenarios.
Prior
RUBINET Lab
UC Davis
NLP research for automated mental health condition detection. Built experience in literature reviews, methodology implementation, and reproducing AI research results. Also contributed GPU optimization work and computer vision research that led to the ICIEM 2026 paper. Extended the AttnRes paper from Moonshot AI to a VLM architecture with reproduced performance gains.
Publications
ICIEM 2026
Computer Vision Research Paper
Conference proceedings  ·  Scopus-indexed journal  ·  ISBN-numbered book
Accepted
Experience
2024 – Present
Data Pigeon
Co-Founder
EV charging AI platform integrated with a network of 1,000+ commercial chargers. Built smart routing, demand prediction, and real-time analytics infrastructure. Went through ElevX accelerator at UC Davis. Won 2nd place and $5,000 at Sacramento Kings Capitalize.
ML Python Startup
2024
MyEdMaster
ML Engineering
Built ML models integrated into a clinician-facing reporting workflow, generating automated summaries from model predictions for review.
ML Python
2024 – Present
UC Davis IET
Software Engineering Contributor
Engineering contributor on the HR platform serving 1,300+ UC Davis faculty. Working on an existing production system at real scale.
SWE Production
2023 – 2024
FinTech Industrial
Data Engineering
Built data pipelines and designed schemas for financial data processing. High school-era engineering work.
ETL SQL
Programs & Affiliations
Daytona Startup Grid
Startup program
ElevX
UC Davis accelerator
PLASMA
UC Davis
Projects
HuggingFace OSS Contribution
Open source contributor to huggingface/course. Rewrote course pages in MDX and Jupyter notebook formats, coordinated directly with a senior HuggingFace ML advocacy engineer. PR currently in review.
In review
Open Source NLP
HuggingFace Dataset
Published open source dataset on HuggingFace Hub with strong community traction.
9,817+ downloads
Open Source Dataset
NovaNotes
AI-powered study companion with real user traction. Built and deployed on Vercel.
3,500+ users · 14,000+ views nova-notes-nine.vercel.app ↗
LLM React Vercel
Rizitanz
Treated TikTok content virality as a data optimization problem. Ran systematic experiments across variables including game content, narration speed, and presenter format to build a repeatable playbook.
1,000,000+ views · 10,000+ watch hours
Analytics ML
Athena AI
Intelligent academic assistant built on a RAG pipeline with multi-source retrieval. CalHacks AI Track Finalist.
CalHacks AI Track Finalist
RAG LLMs Python
Minecraft Plugins
Custom Minecraft plugins and Discord bots built and sold commercially via Fiverr. Genuine early engineering with real market validation.
17,000+ downloads
Java Commerce
Awards
1st Place
Snowflake Hackathon
Data infrastructure challenge
1st Place
Google Maps Hackathon
Location intelligence track
1st Place
AgentHacks
Autonomous agent systems
2nd Place · $5,000
Sacramento Kings Capitalize
Sports tech competition
Finalist
CalHacks AI Track
UC Berkeley
Publication
ICIEM 2026
Scopus-indexed conference proceedings
$53,000 Merit Scholarship
UC Davis Provost Award
Granted to high-achieving incoming students from outside California
Education
University of California, Davis
Double Major: B.S. Computer Science + B.S. Statistics (ML Track)
Minor in Technology Management
Sophomore  ·  SF Bay Area
3.65
GPA
Stack

Built for
raw compute.

From GPU kernels to full-stack apps. I operate close to the metal and at the application layer simultaneously.

CUDA / C++
GPU
PyTorch
DL
Python
Research
React / Next.js
Web
HuggingFace
OSS
RL Systems
Drones
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Contact

Let's build
something
real.

Open to research roles, internships, and conversations about frontier ML. Based in SF Bay Area outside of Davis.

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Blog.

Writing on ML research, engineering, building things, and occasionally life.

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