WhenFS Goes Viral August 2024
My experimental FUSE filesystem hit #1 on Y Combinator's Hacker News and briefly went viral in Japan. View the GitHub project.

Began Volunteering With Microsoft TEALS September 2023
TEALS builds sustainable computer science programs in high schools, with a focus on serving students excluded because of race, gender or geography.

Attained Extra Class Amateur Radio License March 2022
The top civilian US license class, granting privileges on all US amateur bands.

Kernel Machine Learning Technical Report Posted November 2021
"KML: Using Machine Learning to Improve Storage Systems" was posted on arXiv. View the GitHub project.

Joined the D. E. Shaw Group August 2021
Joined the D. E. Shaw Group's infrastructure team as a systems engineer. Learn more about the D. E. Shaw Group.

First Paper Co-Authorship July 2021
"A Machine Learning Framework to Improve Storage System Performance" was published in Proceedings of the 13th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems.

Graduated from Stony Brook University May 2021
Undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, with specialization in privacy and security.

Advanced to NYBPC Finals April 2021
Cognito, an IoT device designed to prevent cognitive impairment resulting from poor air quality, advanced to the New York Business Plan Competition finals and won a grant to pursue further research.

TA, Computational Geometry Fall 2020
One of the most interesting and practical classes offered in the AMS/CSE curriculum.

Joined the File Systems and Storage Lab at Stony Brook University Summer 2020
The FSL group performs research in operating systems with focus on file systems, storage, security, and networking.

Summer Internship at the D. E. Shaw Group Summer 2020
Pandemic edition. Joined as an SRE and infrastructure engineering intern.

TA, Systems Fundamentals II Spring 2020
Spent many days (and a few nights) tutoring students and writing automated test cases for assignments.

Winter Internship at the D. E. Shaw Group Winter 2019
Proud to be the department's first "winter-n". Joined as a web engineering intern.

Stony Brook Computing Society 2019
As secretary of SBCS, I organized a hackathon and spoke for the (binary) trees in the SBCS Lorax boat.

Summer Internship at the D. E. Shaw Group Summer 2019
The first of many. Joined as a systems administration intern.

Stony Brook iGEM Awarded Gold Fall 2018
After a grueling summer of genetically engineering cyanobacteria, Stony Brook iGEM was nominated for best energy project and won a gold medal at the international iGEM Jamboree. Learn more about our project, the "Sucrose Factory".

Music Keys Awarded "Most Creative" Hackathon Project Summer 2018
My team played Pokémon with nothing but a violin in what became a hit SBUHacks demo. In the process, we somehow became the face of the Stony Brook Computer Science Department's "What is Computer Science?" lecture.

Awarded URECA and Explorations in STEM Scholarships Summer 2018
I was fortunate enough to receive funding and housing for my summer research with iGEM from two summer research programs! Learn more about URECA and Explorations in STEM.

Joined RARE as an Unpaid Laborer 2017
Though I was only a lowly high school student, I spent a lot of time working at the Rensselaer Astrobiology Research and Education center (then known as the New York Center for Astrobiology at Rensselaer). A lot of fun was had trying to synthesize RNA polymers in creative settings.