California Institute of Technology

Research and STEM Activities

Selected as Taylor Lawrence SURF Research Fellow, in which he leveraged deep learning models for artifact detection and transient identification on the NASA Roman Telescope; was mentored by Dr. Ashish Mahabal and Roberta Paladini as part of RAPID (Roman Alerts Promptly from Image Differencing) team... Served as a Particle Physics and ML Researcher in the Nobel Prize-winning ATLAS experiment under Dr. Shih-Chieh Hsu at the University of Washington, where he created a boosted decision tree model to identify semi-visible dark matter particle jets from proton collision data... Founded Codeigy, a nonprofit providing free of cost programming bootcamps around the world reaching 300+ students and 12 countries.

Prior to Caltech

Academic Honors: Accelerated IB Diploma Recipient... 3-time USAWP Outstanding Academic All-American... USA Computing Olympiad Gold... 6x Science Olympiad State Qualifier.

Athletic Honors: Played five years for Northwest Water Polo Club... 2nd Place in Platinum Division at Texas 2021 Junior Olympics... 3-time PNW Zone Champions... Captain and 4-year Varsity Starter of Interlake HS Water Polo... Led HS team to first ever WA State Championship qualification.

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