Experience
Industry
- Meta Reality Labs
May - Aug 2022
XR Hologram Creation, Software Engineering Intern
- Delivered a novel view synthesis pipeline (Pytorch) ported to both the product stack & Detectron2Go framework. Configured model to train on real RGB-D data.
- Facebook Reality Labs
May - Aug 2021
XR Augmented Calling, Software Engineering Intern
- Built a Babylon.js-based, 3D visualization website for skinned meshes and point clouds in React, integrating both data streaming from an internal database and local file uploads.
- Oracle
May - Aug 2020
Omni-Channel Platform, Software Engineering Intern
Created and deployed microservice to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, implementing a conditional chat feature in Oracle's B2B chat product (Docker, Kafka, Kubernetes, NGINX).
Leadership
- CS184: Computer Graphics & Imaging
Jan 2022 - Present
Head Teaching Assistant
- Organized operations and logistics for a course of 10 TAs and 350+ upper division & graduate students. Developed projects and discussion content, taught a discussion section, held office hours.
- Mobile Developers of Berkeley
Sept 2019 - Dec 2021
VP Education, VP Development
- Organized semester-long iOS and React Native bootcamps, oversaw their 8 mentors, led content development.
- Led new member recruitment (marketing, application / interview deliberations, etc) for 300+ applicants.
- ProgramHers
Nov 2017 - Aug 2020
Co-founder, President
- Founded a 501(c)(3) nonprofit focused on empowering underrepresented students to pursue technology and computing. Reached 150+ students at 3 locations.
- Summer 2020: Organized, taught, & developed curriculum for a free, virtual 4-week web development course (HTML, CSS, JS) centered around social justice and community building. Reached 50+ students globally!
Relevant Coursework:
- Adv. Computer Graphics Algorithms & Techniques (Graduate)
- Immersive Computing & VR (Graduate)
- Computer Graphics & Imaging
- Machine Learning, Computer Vision & Computational Photography
- Computer Architecture
- Optimization Models in Engineering
- Efficient Algorithms
- Signals & Systems
- Probability
- Discrete Math
- Social Justice in EECS
- Teaching Techniques in Computer Science
- 3D Modeling & Animation
Research
- UC Berkeley Center for Innovation in Vision & Optics
Jan 2023 - Present
Undergraduate Researcher
- Developing experiments for Oz Vision
- PIs: Prof. Ren Ng, Prof. Austin Roorda
- UC San Francisco Center for Intelligent Imaging
March 2021 - Dec 2022
Undergraduate Researcher
- Used vision transformers (ViT) to develop a content-based image retrieval framework for chest CTs & X-rays.
- Presented at RSNA 2022, first author paper in pre-print
- PI: Dr. Jae Ho Sohn
- UC Berkeley EECS, Sequin Lab
Sept 2019 - Dec 2019
Undergraduate Researcher
- Developed new geometry modules in C++ for NOME (Non-Orientable Manifold Editor), a CAD program that adds efficiency to the 3D design of 2-mainfold free-form surfaces
- PI: Prof. Carlo Sequin
- UC Santa Barbara Media Arts & Technology
June 2017 - Aug 2017
Research Intern
- Developed a vibrational interface between a piano and the body, a tool geared towards helping those with hearing impairments "feel" music that is being played. Used MAX software, music theory, and biological resonance principles.
- PI: Prof. Alexis Crawshaw
Volunteering & Campus Involvement
- Student Advocate's Office
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
Academic Caseworker
- Advise and advocate on behalf of client facing university disputes related to academics - everything from formal grade appeals, to medical withdrawals, to problems with professors
- San Quentin Prison: Uncuffed Project
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
- Built tech to improve the operational efficiency of employees working on San Quentin's Uncuffed podcast.
- [Stanford] CS106A: Programming Methodologies
March 2020 - May 2020
[Code in Place] Teaching Assistant
- Led weekly discussion sections for Stanford's Code in Place offering of "Programming Methodologies."
- [Berkeley] EECS 16A: Information Devices & Systems I
Jan 2023 - Present
Discussion Tutor
- Aid teaching assistant in teaching weekly discussion sections.
Honors & Awards
- UC Berkeley Regents’ and Chancellor’s Research Fellowship (2022)
- UC Berkeley Leadership Award (2019, 2020)
- Adobe Career Academy
- Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society
- UC Berkeley Regents' and Chancellor's Scholar (2019-2023)
- Society of Women Engineers' Paula Loring Simon Scholarship (2019)
- Alice Tweed Tuohy Honors Scholar (2019-2023)
- Harriet Miller Youth Leadership Award (2019)
- NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing Central California Winner (2018, 2019)