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Hey, nice to meet you.
Thanks for taking the time to visit my website. Scroll down to see some projects I've been working on!

Participant, HackMIT
Built an iOS app to serve as a platform for discovering and sharing music. Designed & wrote the front-end and back-end for the app.
- Complete iOS Social Media Platform
- Discover & share new music
- Integrated into Spotifys API

Software Engineer, Amazon Alexa Prize
Developed an open domain chatbot for the UC Davis Amazon Alexa Prize Team. Responsible for developing the chatbot’s ability to discuss “Fashion” trends/topics as well as “self-disclosing” facts and opinions about itself.
- Large scale software engineering with ~12,000 daily users
- Achieved the highest user-rated module for the chatbot
- Contributed robust, unit and integration tested code
A.I. Research, UCD/UCLA/Columbia
Researching Dialog Systems, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision under Professor Zhou Yu (UC Davis & Columbia University) and Professor Kai-Wei Chang (UCLA).
- Published paper in EMNLP 2019
- Paper in review for EMNLP 2020
- Submitting paper on A.I. Safety & Ethics to ICLR 2021

Director, HackDavis
Organized HackDavis 2020, a student-run hackathon with over 700+ students from across America.
- Developed a web app to streamline 1900 student applications
- Developed an iOS app used by over 400 participants
- Lead a workshop on Web Development to over 100 participants
Instructor, Udemy
Designed & created a complete course on how to master iOS app development.
- Reached students in 10 different countries
- Highly rated, 4.73/5
- Over 1,000 minutes taught

Feel free to reach out!
I'm currently looking for 2021 summer internships & full-time jobs as a software engineer. I would love to learn more about your company. Thanks for visiting my website!
