CV & Resume
Education
Stanford University
B.S. Computer Science – Artificial Intelligence & Systems Track | GPA: 4.0/4.0
Relevant Classes: CS106B, CS103, CS109, CS107, CS111, CS161, MATH 51, MATH 104, CS205L, CS224N, CS229, CS131
Plano West Senior High School
High School Diploma | Grade: 4.85/4.0 | Rank: 4/1300 | ACT: 36/36
Experience
PocketChange Digital
Technical Co-Founder | Stanford, CA | November 2023 – Present
- Leading a startup focused on simplifying gift card liquidation, trading, and storage.
- Secured over $50K in initial funding, received YC W25 and Techstars NYC final round interviews (top 1% of 10,000+ applicants).
- Signed LOIs with 3+ CEOs, including McDonald’s, Dunkin, and PDQ.
- Developed a full-stack app for gift card trading using Dart, JavaScript, Python Django, Firebase, RESTful APIs, AWS, Docker, and Redis.
Stanford Hoover Institute
Technical Research Assistant | Stanford, CA | September 2024 – Present
- Developed LLM models to classify Russian media propaganda using log probability analysis and transformer-based models.
- Collaborating with Dr. Sergey Sanovich on a research paper focused on AI-driven disinformation detection and policy implications.
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Software Research Intern | Stanford, CA | May 2024 – September 2024
- Conducted advanced statistical analyses using R, Stata, and Python on 5,000+ survey entries.
- Fine-tuned LLMs for Supreme Court decision prediction, processing over 1,500 files and classifying cases by specific justices.
- Presented academic research to 10+ professors, contributing to two publications with Dr. Malhotra.
Microsoft Azure Product Consultant
Consultant | Stanford, CA | January 2024 – April 2024
- Conducted in-depth market research and competitive analysis for Azure, interviewing over 30 individuals and gathering 50+ survey responses.
- Collaborated with 5 Microsoft product managers to develop and test cloud solutions, providing 14 actionable suggestions to the Azure product team.
TriTech Software
Software Engineer Intern | Allen, TX | June 2023 – September 2023
- Developed RESTful APIs using Kotlin, Spring Boot, and PostgreSQL to manage user options in an Agile environment.
- Collaborated on cloud integrations using GCP, GitLab, and Jenkins.
Leadership Experience
Stanford Economic Review
Research and Technical Lead | Stanford, CA | May 2024 – Present
- Led a team of over 25 students to review and analyze economic research papers and publish opinion pieces.
- Developed and managed a platform for economic discourse, inspiring hundreds of readers through impactful content.
- Link to the Stanford Economic Review website.
- Example article: “Can Benjamin Keep His Throne as the King of Currency?”.
Be The Light Youth Association
Executive Director of Expansion | USA | August 2020 – July 2023
- Raised over $175,000 to support children in need of educational assistance and trauma healing.
- Organized tournaments and developed public speaking skills for local middle school students.
- Visit Be The Light Youth Association.
New Age Learning
Co-Founder and Instructor | USA | May 2020 – January 2024
- Offered speech and debate coaching to underprivileged students, leading to state and national victories.
- Raised $15,000 for Asian American education awareness.
- Visit New Age Learning.
The Extemper’s Bible
Managing Director | USA | May 2022 – June 2023
- Launched America’s largest Extemporaneous Speaking platform with 200,000+ visitors.
- Provided free resources and lessons for students entering debate competitions.
- Visit The Extemper’s Bible.
Academic Projects
LegalEval Large Language Model: Understanding Legal Texts
Client: Semantic Evaluation ACL | January 2024
- Created a custom PyTorch data loader, improving LLaMA2 model accuracy by 15%.
- Implemented model parallelism with Hugging Face Accelerate and DeepSpeed ZeRO 3, reducing training time by 30% on A100 GPUs.
- Executed legal text classification tasks for SemEval 2023 LegalEval, achieving top 10% performance.
ACM Convolutional Neural Network Bird Classifier
Client: Google BIG-Bench | November 2023
- Developed a PyTorch-based bird classification model with 87% accuracy on 3,113 images.
- Reduced overfitting by 20% through data augmentation techniques and GAN image generation.
Honors and Awards
- Publishing a Book: “Majority Opinions: How an Out-of-Step Supreme Court Can Affect the Rule of Law” with Dr. Neil Malhotra (2024).
- Publishing a Paper: “The Politics of Small Business Owners” with Dr. Neil Malhotra (2024).
- 2-Time National Finalist in International Extemporaneous Speaking (NSDA) (2022 & 2023).
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (2024).
- 2023 National 4th Place in International Extemporaneous Speaking – NSDA.
- 2023 National 2nd Place in Extemp TOC – Northwestern University.
- 2023 Global Academic WorldQuest Champion – World Affairs Council.
- 2023 Texas State 2nd Place Runner Up in International Extemporaneous Speaking – Texas Forensics Association (TFA).
- 2023 National 3rd Place in Extemporaneous Speaking at the Barkley Forum – Emory University.
- 2023 National Round Robin 5th Place – Montgomery Bell Academy (MBA) Round Robin.
- 3x American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME) Qualifier – Top 2.5% of high school math students (2020, 2021, 2022).
- 2022 National Champion in United States Extemporaneous Speaking at the Longhorn Classic – University of Texas in Austin.
- 2022 National 6th Place in International Extemporaneous Speaking – NSDA.
- 2022 NIETOC National Champion in Extemporaneous Speaking – NIETOC.
- 2022 Global Academic WorldQuest Competition 2nd Place Runner Up – World Affairs Council.
- 2022 National Runner Up in Extemporaneous Speaking at the Barkley Forum – Emory University.
Activities and Societies
- Stanford Marketing Group (SMG)
- Stanford Economic Review
- Hoover Institute Undergraduate Fellow
- Christian Union
- Stanford Veritas
- Stanford Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Stanford Pre-Business Association (SPBA)
- ASES
- Summer Research College (2024)
Skills
Languages: Fluent in Mandarin Chinese Soft Skills: Leadership, Public Speaking, Organization
Technical Skills:
Java, Python, Kotlin, C++, C, React, Node.js, AWS, GCP, PyTorch, TensorFlow, SQL, Dart, JavaScript, Angular, NumPy, Deep Learning, NLP, PCA, K-Means, SVD, Least Squares, Linux, LLMs, Machine Learning, Git, Databases