About Me

Work Experience:

Amazon | Boston, MA

Software Development Engineer Intern
June 2024 – August 2024

• Worked in the Artificial General Intelligence team.
• Built a DES in SimPy to model behavior in Alexa’s nodes under varying packet loads, with experiment reproducibility.
• Engineered C++ automation tooling to interface with internals, feeding packets of variable sizes to measure latency.
• Processed and statistically analyzed 100k+ CSV/JSON logs with Python to capture patterns and generate insights.
• Fitted empirical models (85% accuracy) to latency data with Matplotlib, informing scalability to large-scale workloads.

Art of Problem Solving | Waltham, MA

Math Teaching Assistant
July 2022 – June 2026

• Assisted 300+ elementary, middle, and high school students at AoPS Academy Lexington.
• Helped instructors in the 2022 (prealgebra and geometry) and 2025 (high school math contests and algebra 1) summer camps.
• Assisted students in Zoom office hours throughout the school year, averaging 10 students per session.

Math League, LLC | Remote

Curriculum Specialist, Intern
July 2021 – Present

• As an Intern since July 2021 and Curriculum Specialist after three years, wrote 300+ math problems for competitions aimed at elementary, middle, and high school students.
• Lead writer for the Number Sense Challenge, a speed-based challenge for elementary school students.
• In 2022-2023, was the lead instructor for the middle school AfterMath program, which goes over problems from the middle school contests.

Teaching:

Georgia Institute of Technology:

• CS 3510: Design and Analysis of Algorithms (Graduate Teaching Assistant: Fall 2025, Spring 2026; Undergraduate Teaching Assistant: Fall 2024, Spring 2025)
• CS 2050: Introduction to Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science (Undergraduate Teaching Assistant: Summer 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024)
• MATH 2551: Multivariable Calculus (Lecture Assistant: Spring 2023)

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign:

• CS 124: Introduction to Computer Science I (Course Assistant: Spring 2022)

Research:

Georgia Tech School of Mathematics | Atlanta, GA

Research Assistant
Fall 2023 – Present

• Advised by Dr. Ernie Croot.
• Explored the Kirchhoff Matrix-Tree Theorem and researched domino tiling enumerations on a grid to attempt to strengthen existing bounds.
• Researched maximal induced forests in multi-dimensional grid graphs; found and proved bounds with a construction giving a tight upper bound for two-dimensional graphs, but discovered these results were already found in Caragiannis et al. (2002).
• Found an upper bound of $3n^2/4$ for the size of maximal induced 4-cycle-free subgraphs in two-dimensional grid graphs. Proved upper and lower bounds on the number of such subsets with $(3/4 - \varepsilon)n^2$ vertices by considering local $2 \times 2$ subgrids and identifying a necessary constructive condition.
• Our work resulted in the paper 4-cycle-free induced subgraphs of grid graphs; presented at MAA-SE 2026.

Quad Packing Research Group | Remote

Research Assistant
Spring 2025 – Present

• Advised by Dr. Timothy Goldberg (Lenoir-Rhyne University) and Dr. Lauren Rose (Bard College).
• Select participants from the 2024 Polymath Jr REU plus other researchers met at JMM 2025.
• Proved an exact expression for the flat ($r$-dimensional affine subspaces of a vector space $V$) number, showing that each term $M(n)$ can be written as the sums and products of certain combinations of powers of 2 in the binary representation of $n$.
• Proved quad packing is equivalent to flat packing via an injective mapping, resolving a conjecture in a 2023 MIT Primes paper.
• Our work resulted in the paper Quad-packing in the game EvenQuads; presented at MAA-SE 2026, contributed to JMM 2026.

Williams College | Remote

Participant (2024), Graduate Research Mentor (2025)
Summer 2024, 2025

• Worked in the Games and Finite Geometry team of the Polymath Jr REU, advised by Dr. Timothy Goldberg (Lenoir-Rhyne University) and Dr. Lauren Rose (Bard College).
• Researched the quad number $q(n)$ in the card game Quads; wrote C++ code to brute-force results for $n \in [4,16]$ and $d=\lceil \log_2 n \rceil$.
• Mentored $20$ undergraduates, introducing them to the research problem and the game itself through resources and weekly meetings.
• Proved upper bound expression for $q(n)$ and attainability for $n$ a power of two; presented at JMM 2025 and MAA-SE 2025.

Georgia Tech School of Modern Languages | Atlanta, GA

Research Assistant
Summer 2024

• Advised by Kyoko Masuda.
• Researched frequency of female versus male pronouns in the manga Sazae-san and drew conclusions based on different age groups.
• Submitted collaborative research paper in Japanese to the SGSJ in 2024; presented at SGSJ 2024.

Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering | Atlanta, GA

Research Assistant
Fall 2023

• Worked in the Retrofuturistic Hardware team under Dr. Aaron Lanterman.
• Translated docs of the Japanese NEC PC-FX game console to English, storing 12 files of 15k+ lines in Github Pages.
• Researched the PC-FX’s address map, register list, and I/O access space and the specs of its sound processing device.
• Analyzed the C Compiler of the GMAKER Starter Kit (processing flow/registers), allowing user-made software to run.
• Wrote graphical software in C with the kit to run on the PC-FX to showcase its usability to a team of 3 and a professor.

Conferences/Seminars:

• March 2026 - MAA Southeastern Sectional Meeting, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL
• Session: Contributed Papers Session #6
• Talk: Burnside's lemma and applications in competition problems
• March 2026 - MAA Southeastern Sectional Meeting, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL
• Session: Recreational Math Session #2
• Talk: Quad-packing in the game EvenQuads
• March 2026 - MAA Southeastern Sectional Meeting, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL
• Session: Contributed Papers Session #1
• Talk: 4-cycle-free induced subgraphs of grid graphs
• March 2025 - MAA Southeastern Sectional Meeting, High Point University, High Point, NC
• Session: Undergraduate Paper Session II-4
• Talk: Quad Packing
• January 2025 - Joint Mathematics Meetings, Seattle Convention Center, Seattle, WA
• Session: AMS Special Session on Polymath Jr REU Student Research Session, I
• Talk: Quad Packing
• July 2024 - The Society for Gender Studies in Japanese Conference, Tokyo International University, Toshima, Tokyo, Japan
• Talk: Gender Expressions Used by Female Characters in "Sazae-san" (「サザエさん」の女性登場人物が用いるジェンダー表現の考察)