Here is some of the professional experience I have worked on in the past! Feel free to also check out my LinkedIn for more up to date information on where I am working.
University of California, Los Angeles
B.S. in Computer Science
September 2021 - present
Los Angeles, California
Coursework: Introduction to Programming in C++, Data Structures & Algorithms, Software Construction, Computer Organization, Operating Systems, Computer Security, Secure Computing Systems, Deep Learning & Neural Networks, Computer Network Fundamentals.
Software Engineer Intern
CrowdStrike
June 2023 - present
Irvine, California
Currently working on the Cloud Ingestion Team. More information about this soon.
AI Intern
LatticeWork, Inc.
August 2022 - May 2023
San Jose, California
Assisted with various AI related projects. More information about this soon.
Cyber CTF Director
ACM at UCLA
February 2022 - February 2023
Los Angeles, California
Currently managing Psi Beta Rho, UCLA's competitive Capture The Flag (CTF) cybersecurity team. Facilitated weekly practices involving learning industry standard cybersecurity tools such as common Linux programs, Python scripting, reverse engineering tools, and forensics tools. Organized guest speakers and collaborations with other colleges to provide exposure to vast cybersecurity experiences. Managed team members and other students while competing at external CTFs.
Cyber Officer
ACM at UCLA
February 2022 - present
Los Angeles, California
Currently helping grow cybersecurity learning at UCLA! Helping organize Cyber Academy, a weekly workshop series promoting cybersecurity fundamentals such as file analysis, cross site scripting, & steganography to about 20-30 computer science students. Facilitated organization's DevOps through weekly deployment of challenges to an AWS EC2 server for events using Git and CI/CD tools. Maintained the Cyber website platform written in Rust and improved documentation for maintenance and deployment. Developed challenges for workshops involving C and common Linux tools.
Residential Teaching Assistant
New Jersey Governor's School of Engineering & Technology
June - July 2022
New Brunswick, New Jersey
Taught the top 71 engineering high school students in NJ through workshops relating to engineering research, Git/GitHub, machine learning, and LaTeX/Overleaf. Facilitated research as a project liaison for two research groups who investigated using properties of structure-borne sounds and machine learning models in MATLAB to identify hand structure as a biometric mobile authentication system and developing crowd-sourced engagement features for higher education through a web application written in React.js. Developed web scraping scripts using Python and regex to archive 8+ years worth of research paper PDFs and metadata to assist with a site migration for the Governor's School research journal.
Cyber Intern
ACM at UCLA
November 2021 - February 2022
Los Angeles, California
Helped organize Cyber Academy, a weekly workshop series promoting cybersecurity fundamentals and focusing on forensics for Winter Quarter 2022. Contributed to the weekly cyber newsletter focusing on current trends & tips for cybersecurity. Developed challenges for workshops and CTF After Dark covering cybersecurity tools such as Linux and other forensics tools.
Founder, CEO, & Student Tutor
Liu U: Tutoring Services
September 2017 - December 2021
Morristown, New Jersey
Founded Liu U: Tutoring Services, a company dedicated to connecting tutee-clients to tutors in our student-to-student learning model that specializes in math and science tutoring as well as SAT preparation. Worked as a student-tutor and developed tailored educational plans for clients. Learned entrepreneurial skills of organizing, logistics, customer service, and marketing.
Mock Trial Camp Director & Counselor
Liu U: Tutoring Services
August 2020
Morristown, New Jersey
Ran a virtual week-long summer camp teaching local & international students about the US justice system, public speaking, & mock trial. Developed camp curriculum and gave presentations to attendees. Responsible with organizing, advertising, and recruiting counselors.
Data Science Intern
Renaissance Learning
July - August 2020
New York, New York
Spent 8 week at the Learning Science Internship program. Worked under a data scientist on an independent research project to analyze the impact of unemployment benefits within the United States. Learned data science applications of Python, Git, and Jupyter Notebook and about data sourcing and cleaning.
Student Researcher
New Jersey Governor's School of Engineering & Technology
June - July 2020
New Brunswick, New Jersey
Accepted as a Scholar among the top 72 of NJ high school students with a less than 1% acceptance rate. Published research paper, Integrating Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision into an Interactive Learning Platform, to 2020 GSET Research journal. Developed an educational video conferencing platform with Python that had machine learning features. Research was presented at both the 2020 NJ GSET Symposium and the 2020 MIT IEEE URTC.