About Me

Intro

I am a 2024–2025 A3D3 Postbaccalaureate Fellow, working with Prof. Miaoyuan Liu at Purdue. We are using hls4ml to implement efficient transformers on FPGAs, for applications in the Level-1 Trigger of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider operated by CERN.

I am applying to Ph.D. programs for fall 2025 entry; I am broadly interested in the ethical, societal, and economic implications of artificial intelligence, and specifically interested in areas such as algorithmic fairness, privacy, and AI policy.

Previously, I was a software engineer at Seeq, which makes data analytics software for process manufacturing companies. I received my Bachelor of Science in physics and theater arts from MIT.

Fun Facts

  • Prior to college, my only acting role was the lead, Luzena Wilson, in my fourth grade school musical Gold Dust or Bust.
  • I was in the top 0.05% of Julien Baker listeners on Spotify in 2023.
  • Despite my hometown being Cupertino, California, I have never owned an Apple product.
  • I make a really good vegan garlic eggplant (魚香茄子).
  • I don't have a driver's license.

I Like

  • Making music (singing, guitar, violin, keyboard, and ukulele)
  • Writing songs
  • Learning languages (Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese Hokkien, Spanish, and toki pona)
  • Cooking Taiwanese and Chinese cuisine
  • Acting
  • Practicing wushu
  • Playing board games
  • Intentional communities
  • Autumn
  • Cats
  • Decaf Earl Grey tea
  • 0.28 mm pens

I Do Not Like

I Dream Of

  • Creating a more sustainable and equitable world.
  • Human rights for all people.
  • A future in which artists are respected and remunerated fairly.
  • Maintaining childlike wonder.
  • Being able to recite the Tao Te Ching (道德經) in its entirety, in Mandarin.