Experience

• Undergraduate Researcher @ Stanford AI Lab Scaling model evals. Previously worked on inference optimization (TK) with Chris Re.
• Engineer @ Mercor Human data infra for AI labs. First 5 U.S. employees.
• COO @ Kinetic Built an aggregated NFT marketplace with a world-class team on my gap year. Raised $10M from Jump, Sequoia, Lux and more.
• Investor I'm an angel investor or advisor in companies including Forge (seed), Mercor (seed), Context (seed), Paradigm (pre-seed), Delve (seed), Induced (pre-seed), DeepSilicon (seed), TerraHaptix (pre-seed), Industrials (seed), Etched (series A).

Projects

• Structured Pruning for Domain-Specific LLMs Received Best Project Award from CS229 professors Andrew Ng, Carlos Guestrin, and Moses Charikar.
• Spark Teen Built one of the world's largest entrepreneurship education nonprofits. Made possible by Techstars, We Are Family Foundation, the City of Portland, and REAP.
• Vallum Built semantic data loss prevention tool adopted by enterprises representing 60,000+ employees.
• MatchSC Viral matchmaking platform at USC with 4k+ signups within 24 hours.
• Kepler Text-to-video for education, originally built at HackHarvard. Later became Gatekeep AI.

Honors

• Academic Bryan Cameron Impact Scholar (full-tuition), U.S. Presidential Scholar, Coca-Cola Scholar, National Merit Scholar, National Endowment for the Humanities Scholar
• Fellowships Atlas Fellow, Interact Fellow, We Are Family Foundation GTL, StarkNet Fellow, .406 Ventures Fellow