I'm an incoming (accidental) CS PhD student at UCLA advised by Eunice Jun at the C&DL. I work at the intersection of HCI and AI, developing models and software that empowers people to think, learn, and create.

I recently CTO'd at Excavaite, an agentic Intellectual Property mining and protection platform.

Previously, I worked at Meta on CodeGen, and at Confluent on core Kafka Metadata. Earlier, I trained CV models for grape and leaf-mineral analysis at Agrofocal, and explored diffusion for autonomous-vehicle perception and sythetic data augmentation in the UCLA VAIL Lab.