Internship Experience
Associate Software Engineer
WiseTech Global
- Engineered solutions for 18 work items in the Business Intelligence team, including 3 critical defect patches
- Led technical design and implementation of improvements to internal processes in SQL Server change data capture, facilitating a 30x efficiency gain in enterprise data warehouse procedures
- Constructed denormalized tables to facilitate queries of aggregated data tailored to customer needs, including SQL scripts for operational data extraction, transformation and loading into an enterprise data warehouse
Sydney, Australia
May 2024 → August 2024
Academic Experience
Research Assistant
University of Virginia, LESS Lab
- Develop techniques and tools for building and verifying complex, safety-critical software systems
- Lead research and development of SAT solvers utilizing multi-armed bandit algorithms to increase efficiency in a critical decision-making heuristic, with a particular focus on C and C++ optimization
- Collaborate to engineer graph neural networks and LLMs analyzing SAT formula structure, and design and implement novel techniques that efficiently leverage these models' predictions to accelerate SAT solver performance by 1.15x
Charlottesville, VA
August 2024 → Present
Head Teaching Assistant
University of Virginia, Computer Science
- Coordinate between professor, 30+ TA's, and 600+ students to lead delivery of Intro to Programming content
- Direct at least 1 lab per week, reinforcing learning with live Python coding demonstrations for 70+ students
- Prepare and present interactive lectures for 100+ students teaching essential concepts, UX/UI and game design
Charlottesville, VA
March 2024 → Present
Teaching Assistant
University of Virginia, Computer Science
- Enhanced students’ learning in Computer Systems and Organization II, and Discrete Mathematics, through 3 weekly hours of class, office hours and lab, guiding to individual understanding
- Crafted and reviewed exam questions synthesizing multiple topics to test limits of students’ knowledge
Charlottesville, VA
August 2024 → May 2025
Lead Research Assistant
University of Virginia, Marcus Project
- Utilized OpenAI API to implement conversation-based chatbot in a React app for PHQ-9 depression screening
- Conducted UX and UI research investigating the effects of culturally tailoring the chatbot's design for marginalized populations in order to enhance patient outcomes
Charlottesville, VA
September 2023 → May 2024
Leadership Experience
Chief Operations and Outreach Officer
Community Honor Fund
- Empowered Charlottesville citizens with low-interest loans (totaling up to $1,000) and financial counseling
- Led team of 8 in client acquisition and onboarding, community outreach, and local partnership development
- Developed and maintained WordPress website with custom CSS styling to promote organization’s mission
Charlottesville, VA
March 2023 → January 2025
Executive Member
National Alliance on Mental Illness at UVA
- Prepared the Dorm Talks program by coordinating with trained facilitators, resident advisors and university administration in order to provide first-year students with a safe space to speak openly about their mental health
- Delivered presentations and activities on topical mental health issues and appropriate self-help strategies to students
Charlottesville, VA
March 2023 → August 2024