Research Assistant

Brown University AI Lab

Building a literature search engine for geneticists to efficiently retrieve the latest information on genetic mutations and diseases from various scientific publications. Created web and PDF scrapers using Python and iterated with professors at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University to effectively index data using Lucene.

May 2020 - Present

Tech Fellow

TreeHacks

Building web platform to facilitate team formation and ideation for >3000 participants in the first virtual iteration of Stanford’s premier hackathon. I work closely with the co-directors of program to revamp the current technical infrastructure as the event goes virtual for the first time due to the challenges of COVID-19.

June 2020 - Present

Section Leader

Stanford University

Teaching students fundamental concepts from sorting to bitmap image processing. Run weekly classes where I teach problem solving strategies and programming best practices. Hold office hours to debug student code in Python and C++ for over 600 students in Stanford University’s largest computer science course

March 2020 - Present

Volunteer Section Leader

Code In Place

Prepared and taught a weekly discussion section of 12 students to supplement professors’ lectures in a 5-week introductory online Python programming course based on material from the first half of Stanford’s introductory programming course, CS106A.

March 2020 - June 2020

Research Assistant

NanoBio Lab

Fabricated >50 smart-diaper sensor systems to increase hospital productivity. Collaborated with senior research scientists, nurses, and patients to calibrate sensor readings.

Summer 2018

Co-Founder

MIT Launch

Co-founded a company at MIT Launch, a startup incubator for high school students. Created PoliSpectrum, a website which automatically aggregates online news from multiple political sources and condenses articles into short paragraphs using extractive text summarisation. Served as full-stack developer and pitched product to multiple VCs in the Boston area.

June 2017 - June 2018