About me
I am a freshman at Harvard College, planning to pursue a joint concentration in CS and Art History / Maths. My long-term goal is to advance explainable systems that possess human-like intelligence.
I have previously:
- Developed multimodal language models to interface with scientific data, under the mentorship of Dr Siddharth Mishra-Sharma and Prof Jesse Thaler at IAIFI, MIT (as part of Research Science Institute).
- Led research on the large-scale graph structure of Wikipedia links, culminating in a first author publication.
- Investigated using autoencoders for low-resource machine translation under Dr Alifierakis at Global Talent Mentoring.
Outside of research, I like making stuff because it’s fun. I started Team Enigma, leading the development of an AI-powered acoustic monitoring device for environmental conservation and prototyping a facial recognition system for registration in my boarding school. In NLP, I’ve experimented with automatic Haiku and traditional Chinese poetry generation, as well as finetuning GPT-2 to write for my school’s newspaper.
I also enjoy doodling with programming languages and built a pseudocode-to-Python transpiler completely from scratch, making it actually possible to run the pseudocode in my school curriculum. I also developed a novel tool to simulate a C++ interpreter on top of an existing GCC installation.
Currently, I’m interested in 1) building models that align astronomical observations across modalities, and 2) from a cognitive science standpoint, building neural networks that can recursively form and operate on abstractions.
At college and beyond, I hope to: 1) build a sound understanding of how and why ML models work in controllable contexts, using tools from physics, cognitive sciences, mechanistic interpretability, or elsewhere; 2) use this knowledge to develop systems with explicit reasoning, better interpretability, and less supervision.
My other interests include learning ancient languages, exploring art, creative writing, photography, and philosophy. I have experimented with constructing my own language. I enjoy climbing, camping, and hiking.
