About

I’m an undergraduate student interested in building thoughtful, reliable systems at the intersection of design, data, and engineering. My background in statistics, economics, and cognitive science shapes how I approach problems analytically and pragmatically, with real-world constraints in mind. tside of work, I spend a lot of time on my home server, data experiments, and personal electronics projects.

Experience

Aug 2025 – Present Research Assistant @ Marghetis Lab
  • Initiated a new research project investigating cognition and team synergy through rally racing on-boarding videos, focusing on driver–co-driver communication dynamics.
  • Developing methods for annotating multimodal data (language, gesture, timing) using R and qualitative coding, laying groundwork for scalable analysis of rally interactions.
  • Expanding role toward designing experimental protocols, managing data pipelines, and collaborating with lab members to translate findings into broader theories of collective cognition.
R Qualitative Coding Data Annotation
May 2024 – Aug 2025 SURI Research Fellow @ UROC / UCM EBM Dept.
  • Structured a unified panel dataset from 82,000+ historical employee records across three industrial firms, enabling robust time-series analysis of labor market trends and occupational dynamics.
  • Standardized 4,700+ job titles into 82 occupation categories using a hybrid approach of string-matching and manual recoding in Stata, improving data quality for statistical modeling.
  • Applied Cox Proportional Hazards models and Duncan Dissimilarity Index to analyze the relationship between ethnicity, wage, and job tenure, developing relevant econometric and data interpretation skills.
Stata Python Econometrics
May 2024 – May 2025 Founding President @ SASE UCM
  • Built a 10–officer executive board and recruited 70+ members, laying the foundation for UC Merced's SASE chapter and creating a productive community for Asian students in science and engineering.
  • Raised $12,000+ through sponsorship outreach, fundraising, and budget proposals, funding career workshops, technical projects, internal chapter operations, and member travel to professional conferences.
  • Launched the inaugural SASE Research Symposium and SASEhacks @ UCM, partnering with 8+ industry specialists to deliver panels, project mentorship, and professional networking opportunities.
Leadership Fundraising Event Planning
Jan 2024 – Present Business Center Lead Intern @ UCM OSI
  • Review and facilitate 1,000+ procurement, travel, and expenditure requests for 300+ student organizations using SAP Concur and Modern Campus, maintaining integrity in financial processing.
  • Approve $350,000 in annual student organization expenditures using Excel and Tableau to identify budget trends and generate actionable reports for Office of Student Involvement professional staff.
  • Developed a Python-based file management system that automated the categorization of expenditure files by semester and organization, streamlining archival workflows and reducing manual processing time by 80%.
Python Excel Tableau