02 · timeline
how i got here
life, research, and everything in between, newest first. filled dots are still going. download resume ↓
2026
sep 2026life
dying of college applications
sep 2026life
started my independent-learning archive
physics, usaco, amc, usapho, ai/ml, statistics, linear algebra. documenting the things i'm teaching myself instead of letting that work disappear.
summer 2026life
started deliberately studying beyond school
linear algebra, differential equations, ml, and statistics, then physics c and competition study. the shift from “classes determine what i learn” to “i determine what i learn.”
jun 2026 — nowresearch
jepa group + social media & ai group · mit critical data
fused two cardiac foundation models (echo + ecg) on mimic-iv and debugged a 512+-frame mamba × jepa model.
more- co-authored “loud or silent? a reusable framework for per-modality failure analysis in multimodal clinical ai.”
- drafted preprints on social-media redesign and ai flourishing.
apr/may 2026 — nowbuilding
co-founder & ceo · velvt
vector-embedding productivity platform. 50+ waitlist; accepted to microsoft for startups (~$200k azure credits + 1:1 mentor) and nvidia inception.
apr 2026 — nowresearch
project lead & researcher · salt lab, uiuc ischool
nlp/hci + multimodal ai. took over the project after a phd researcher handoff; preprint in progress for qss or jasist.
more- analyzed 369k citation passages and found a 40-point swing in how they get labeled.
- testing how that labeling swing changes ai model rankings.
feb — fall 2026research
lead researcher, 6-person eeg/bci team · nyas junior academy
spring '26 and fall '26 cohorts. ml pipeline classifying eeg motor imagery for prosthetic and fes control, mentored by a dartmouth phd.
more- submitted to ieee bigdata hs, with a preprint.
2026life
multiforecast crossed 1,000 users
my open-source premier league monte carlo engine. it's past 1.5k people and 25k+ views now.
2025
dec 2025 — nowleadership
executive & technical director · minorities in stem
40+ chapters, 300+ volunteers, microsoft csr + first robotics partner. 300k+ students reached, 400+ placed in project-based learning, $3k+ raised.
more- ran 5+ stem workshops and hackathons.
- northstar: a free opportunity-mapping tool that matches students without a college counselor to verified stem programs, scholarships, and competitions.
nov 2025 — sep 2026research
google-sponsored research assistant · u michigan-flint
kotlin static analysis research with a google swe, prof. hua ming, and a graduate team. submitted to ieee saner 2027 on sep 26, 2026.
more- built two kotlin static analyses for divide-by-zero and index errors.
- annotated 1k+ benchmarking cases, and scraped and ran experiments on 100+ repositories.
fall 2025life
another varsity soccer season
jul 2025life
visited family in changning, hunan after 6 years
may 2025 — nowleadership
president · mu alpha theta
leading 50+ members through guest speakers and lessons on the parts of math that don't show up in class.
2024
summer 2024teaching
paid camp counselor & stem instructor · wula summer camp
taught math and scratch to 30+ students; the only student staff member selected to lead the technical curriculum.
apr 2024life
got chickens
eight of them. i helped build the coop.
2023
sep 2023 — jun 2024teaching
volunteer teaching assistant · local chinese school
helped chinese grandparents learn english: vocabulary, pronunciation, and a lot of patient conversation practice.
2023 — 2027school
started high school · hopewell valley central
mu alpha theta president, student council president, and sui president there.
2020
2020 — 2021life
touched scratch
found it cool; 350k+ views, 1.7k+ followers, 10 months of memories.
2009
sep 30, 2009 · 12:29 amlife
born.