Experience
I work across research systems, applied machine learning, and technical mentorship—taking projects from model design through deployment and evaluation.

Experience

  1. Graduate Research

    University of California, Irvine

    Research focuses on:

    • Distributed machine-learning systems for resource-constrained edge environments
    • Task-informed neural compression for split computing
    • Progressive inference for wildfire intelligence and disaster resilience
    • Community-scale digital twins and edge visualization

  2. Research Engineer Intern

    Fixstars Solutions Inc.
    • Implemented a ROS perception pipeline with real-time object-detection models and explainable AI techniques
    • Performed statistical analysis of CAN bus waveform characteristics

  3. Graduate Student Mentor

    Zotbins Undergraduate Research Project
    • Leading team of undergraduate researchers developing IoT-enabled smart waste management system
    • Managing project lifecycle from design through iterative deployments
    • Developing ML-based classification system to improve campus waste diversion
    • Mentoring IoT-SITY REU work on a Unity-based disaster-simulation platform

  4. Teaching Assistant

    University of California, Irvine
    • Hosted lab sections with one-on-one code guidance for ICS 32, ICS 33, and CSE 90
    • Prepared and presented lecture materials for programming and systems-engineering courses

  5. Machine Learning Consultant

    Ecorithms
    • Architected and deployed production-ready semantic segmentation models for aerial imagery
    • Optimized inference pipeline through model compression and deployment strategies

  6. Research Fellow

    San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance - Conservation Lab
    • Developed and deployed real-time computer vision system for wildlife monitoring at scale
    • Engineered multi-threaded pipeline for processing high-volume image streams
    • Automated manual review process through intelligent alert system

Education

  1. PhD in Computer Science

    University of California, Irvine
    Research in Distributed Systems Middleware Group

  2. Master of Computer Science

    California State University San Marcos
    Thesis: Constructing Trail Networks from Public GPS Data using Growing Self-Organizing Maps

  3. Bachelor of Mathematics

    University of California, Santa Barbara
Awards & fellowships
Dean’s Fellowship
University of California, Irvine ∙ January 2024
Competitive full-funding award for outstanding PhD candidates
NSF Advanced Studies Institute Fellowship
National Science Foundation ∙ January 2024
Selected for intensive coastal zone hazards research program at Tohoku University, Japan
Best Paper Award
Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS) ∙ April 2023
For novel machine learning approach to geospatial data in the paper “AI Assisted Trail Map Generation based on Public GPS Data”