Curriculum vitae
Education
- 2025 – 2026
Imperial College London
London, UKMSc Computing (Security & Reliability).
- 2021 – 2025
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CAB.A., Computer Science. GPA: 3.7/4.0
Experience
- 2025 — San Francisco, CA
Co-Founder and CTO
Clusy Inc.
- 2025 — London, UK
Postgraduate Researcher
Imperial College London
Working on distributed systems for LLM training.
Learn more - 2024 – 2025 Berkeley, CA
Research and Development Lead
CS Education R&D Group, UC Berkeley EECS
Led a team of six in Prof. Dan Garcia’s group building GradeView, a cloud-native six-microservice platform (Flask, React, Node.js, Redis) on GCP, with CI/CD and a custom ETL analytics pipeline, deployed in CS10 across three terms for 750+ students.
- 2023 – 2025 Berkeley, CA
Undergraduate Researcher
ACE Lab, UC Berkeley EECS
Built GCUI and IGAT — open-source PrairieLearn tools for constructing and assessing graphs. GCUI grades submissions in under 100ms and improved grading efficiency 15×; IGAT user studies with 100+ students reached 86% satisfaction. Papers at SIGCSE TS 2025 and CompEd 2025.
- 2024 Los Angeles, CA
Research Assistant (LLM / ML)
University of Southern California
Built style-guide compliance classifiers with logistic regression, BERT, Hugging Face, and OpenAI, raising accuracy from 53% to 88%; applied PEFT and a 100,000+ synthetic dataset; trained and deployed models on HPC clusters.
- 2023 – 2024 New York, NY
Software Engineering Intern
1PR
- 2023 San Francisco, CA
Software Engineering Intern
Anthems Music Sharing
- 2021 – 2022 Berkeley, CA
Undergraduate Research Assistant (ML)
Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley
Analysed interstellar dust from NASA’s Stardust Mission with computer vision and TensorFlow classifiers; refined EDS training data for a convolutional neural network autograder.
Publications
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CheckWork: Enabling Trace-Driven Analysis of Checkpointing Overhead in Distributed ML Training
Proceedings of the 10th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking (APNet 2026), Singapore, 2026
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An Instructor Dashboard to Support Mastery Learning
Proceedings of the 57th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V.2 (SIGCSE TS 2026), pp. 1443–1444, 2026
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A Direct Manipulation User Interface for Constructing Autogradable Graphs
Proceedings of the ACM Global Computing Education Conference V.2 (CompEd 2025), Gaborone, Botswana, pp. 390–391, 2025
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An Interactive Tool for Randomized Autogradable Graph Assessments
Proceedings of the 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V.2 (SIGCSE TS 2025), Pittsburgh, PA, pp. 1471–1472, 2025
Awards
- 2026
IC Trust and OCT awards for outstanding postgraduate publication
- 2025
1st place (55 finalist teams), IDDA Hackathon 2 — team StarLabs, Loanify.ai (Tenity & IDDA)
- 2025
Top 5 of 500+ participants, UK Agentic AI Hackathon — clusy.io (Google, Claude, DEG, Cambridge, Imperial, et al.)
- 2025
Best Technical Execution, Imperial Learning Analytics Hackathon — Imperium (Imperial & NUS)
- 2025
3rd place, Netcraft Security Challenge (Netcoin), London
- 2025
1st place, CulTech 2025 Hackathon — SnapBite (SUP VC, Baku)