Incoming Caltech freshman interested in physics-informed machine learning, complex system simulation, and interpretability of AI
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Experiences
Research Intern
Boston University | Mentored by Dr. Eugene Pinsky | Jun. 2025 - Mar. 2026
Evaluated different volatility proxies for ETF forecasting with recurrent neural networks, presented my work at IEEE MIT URTC, and extended related time-series research accepted to ITISE 2026
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Creator | Math and physics education | Jun. 2025 - present
Blogged high-level math and physics content in accessible format. Also built approachable lessons and problem sets around Calculus and Physics C content
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Lab Intern
UT Dallas Applied Logic, Programming Languages, Systems Lab | Jun. 2024 - Aug. 2024
Explored formal logic systems, Prolog, autonomous reasoning classifiers, recursive search problems, and comparative logic-learning methods. Wrote paper analyzing Explainabale (XAI) classifiers vs. traditional ML models
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Co-Founder
TextbooksForTomorrow | June 2023 - present
Nationwide book-collecting non-profit with 7,800+ books collected and 200+ volunteers; host fun book drives and fundraising tournaments
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Foundation
California Institute of Technology
B.S. Applied and Computational Mathematics | incoming Aug. 2026
Planning to focus on scientific machine learning, mathematical modeling, complex systems, and computational physics.
Liberty High School
Salutatorian | 1570 SAT | 5.61 weighted GPA
Coursework includes differential equations, multivariable calculus, AP Calculus BC, AP Statistics, DSA, AP Computer Science A, AP Physics C, and AP Macroeconomics.