experiences in more detail!
education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S. in Computer Science and Economics
IEEE/ACM, Faculty Student Relations Chair, Publicity Chair (September 2023 - present)
Asian Christian Fellowship, Fellowship and Worship Team Leader (September 2023 - present)
MIT Cross Products Christian Acapella Group (September 2025 - present)
Pi Beta Phi (September 2023 - present)
MIT Addir (interfaith discussion group) (August 2025 - present)
xFair (Career Fair) and TechX, DevOps & Logistics (2023-2024)
Society of Women Engineers (2023-2024)
August 2023 - present
La Canada High School
National English Honor Society, Co-Founder and Co-President (August 2021 - May 2023)
Ink and the Iris Literary Magazine, Co-President and Co-Editor-in-Chief (March 2020 - May 2023)
Science Olympiad, Vice President and Treasurer (August 2019 - May 2023)
Marching Band, Tuba and keyboard player (August 2019 - May 2023)
August 2019 - June 2023
technical
Amazon Web Services (AWS), SageMaker Unified Studio (SMUS) Team
Software Development Engineering Intern - engineered data observability platform using Strands AI and PySpark, owned end-to-end CI/CD pipeline in production
May - August 2025
MIT Media Lab, Personal Robots Group
AI Research Intern / UROP - designed dataset and experimental pipelines, created React/Firebase tooling for AI empathy manipulation research
September 2025 - present
MIT Sloan School of Management, "Language, Bias, and Time"
Undergraduate Researcher (UROP) - engineered NLP analysis on large-scale Korean text datasets
September 2023 - present
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Software Engineering Intern (AI Research) - developed Prometheus LLM evaluation and grading algorithms/ pipelines
June - August 2024
Macmillan Publishers
Platform Development Micro-Intern (Computer Vision) - deployed Voyager to find best match book covers
January 2024
MIT Media Lab, Scratch Foundation
Undergraduate Researcher (UROP) - trained and incorporated state-of-the-art GPT models into blocks and built-in chatbot
September - December 2023
creative
National Youth Poet Laureate Runner-up
West Regional Youth Poet Laureate; performed for NPR, Kennedy Center in Washington DC, White House, etc.
January 2022 - January 2023
Los Angeles Youth Poet Laureate
Winner; performed for The Broad Museum, LA Public Library, LA Times Festival of Books, etc.
June 2021 - June 2022
Lumiere Review
Founder and Editor-in-Chief curating literary pieces and managing web and media presence
April 2020 - present
Polyphony Lit
Editor-in-Chief, Blog Managing Editor, and Teaching Assistant managing staff of 300+ high school editors
July 2019 - August 2023
I-CREATE YOUTH
Founder and Executive Director hosting coding and writing workshops, fellowship programs, digital exhibitions, etc.
June 2020 - July 2023
Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program
Poetry Mentee under Mario Chard curating award-winning portfolio
June - August 2021
Iowa Young Writers' Studio
Student under Jane Huffman curating portfolio and attending workshops
June 2021
Kenyon Review Young Writers' Workshop
Student under Amy Wright curating portfolio and attending workshops
June - July 2021
Braille Institute
Volunteer Workshop Teacher for classes on audiopoetry, HTML/CSS, songwriting, etc.
June 2020 - July 2022
Disability Rights Legal Center
Technology Volunteer managing database of past volunteer records and transcribing voice messages
January - May 2021
