Experience
Professional journey and technical expertise
Professional Experience
Applied AI Engineering Intern
HARMAN International (a Samsung company)
Northridge, CA
- • Rearchitected a production fuzzy-matching system, improving accuracy 30% while achieving a 5x speedup.
- • Owned two internal tools from ideation through production deployment.
- • Building Python AI services for enterprise workflows with cloud APIs and LLM integrations.
- • Developing RAG components for document processing, embeddings, search, grounding, and evaluation.
PythonCloud APIsLLM integrationsRAG
AI Research Engineer
UCLA StarAI Lab
Los Angeles, CA
- • Built and open-sourced Tractable Circuit Zoo, covering 30 representation languages and 2,700 research claims.
- • Partnering with PhD researchers to design features from real user feedback.
- • Engineered validation algorithms that eliminate 90% of manual entry and 99% of human-generated errors.
- • Streamlined testing and release processes, saving 50+ hours of manual work.
TypeScriptSvelteKitAWSGitHub ActionsLaTeX
Software Engineering Intern
UCLA Garrick Institute for Risk Sciences
Los Angeles, CA
- • Built an ETL pipeline from Diablo Canyon proprietary risk data into HCLA for an independent safety assessment.
- • Validated 5,000+ Diablo Canyon risk events to assess extending plant operations.
- • Collaborated with 5 engineers on a cross-functional, 100,000+ line production codebase.
C++PythonDjangoSeleniumReactGitLabDocker
Education
University of California, Los Angeles
Computer Engineering B.S., Applied Mathematics B.S.
Los Angeles, CA
GPA: 3.97
Honor Societies & Leadership
- • National Merit Scholar (L3Harris corporate scholarship)
- • Dean's Honors List (five quarters)
Relevant Coursework
Software ConstructionComputer OrganizationAlgorithms & ComplexityArtificial IntelligenceComputing TheoryOperating Systems Principles (In Progress)Systems and SignalsDigital Signal Processing (In Progress)Linear Programming (Graduate-Level)Convex Optimization (Graduate-Level)Applied Numerical MethodsLinear AlgebraComplex Analysis (Honors)Probability Theory I/IINeural Networks & Deep Learning II
Technical Skills
Programming Languages
C/C++PythonJavaScript/TypeScriptJavaSQLBashMATLAB
AI/ML & LLM
OpenAI APIGemini APITensorFlowscikit-learnNumPyPandasAgentic AI
Web Technologies
ReactAngularSvelteNode.jsExpressDjangoSpring Boot
Data & Analytics
MatplotlibPostgreSQLMongoDBExcelData Pipelines
Tools & Platforms
GitGitHub ActionsDockerAWSDistributed SystemsLinuxVSCodeJupyterSelenium
Key Achievements
3.97
Current GPA
100+
Hours Saved Through Automation
2nd
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