About Me

I'm a high school senior at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. I created a coding competition called CerealCodes, which gained over 1,000 participants in a year. I am interested in large language models, speech and audio processing, self-driving cars, tech startups, organizing events and competitions, and solving and writing competitive coding problems. Outside of academics, I enjoy traveling to places like South Korea, Europe, and the Caribbean, watching and playing soccer and football, investing in stocks, spending time with friends at the mall, and doing full-body workouts at the gym.

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Cornell 2023 HSPC

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Nightview of NYC

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Selfie in Front of NYC

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Selfie @ Princeton

Princeton University, New Jersey

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Selfie @ UPenn

University of Pennsylvania

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Washington D.C.

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Internship Photo

Washington D.C.

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Picture with Internship Mentor

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Internship Group Photo

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Train Ride to Philly

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Walking in Philly at Night

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Inside UPenn M&T Building

University of Pennsylvania

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Selfie in Front of M&T Building

University of Pennsylvania

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Selfie in Front of Wharton

University of Pennsylvania

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Selfie inside Wharton

University of Pennsylvania

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Selfie with Friend @ Wharton

University of Pennsylvania

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Grinding PennApps at 4AM

University of Pennsylvania

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Group Picture @ PennApps

University of Pennsylvania

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HOCO SEAP Picture

National Portrait Gallery

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HOCO Group Picture

National Portrait Gallery

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URTC Picture @ MIT

Stata Center

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CSAIL Selfie @ MIT

Stata Center

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Selfie @ Harvard

Harvard University

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John Harvard Statue

Harvard University

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MIT Lecture Hall

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CPI Selfie @ MIT Dome

MIT

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CPI x CerealCodes @ MIT Dome

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Leaving MIT Dome

MIT

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Education

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology

Computer Science, Math, and Economics

2020-2024

Unweighted GPA: 3.85/4.0

Coursework:

  • Advanced Math Techniques
  • Research Statistics 2 AV
  • Multivariable Calculus AV
  • Linear Algebra AV
  • AP Calculus BC
  • Machine Learning AV
  • Computer Vision AV
  • Artificial Intelligence AV
  • Computer Systems Research AV
  • AP Macro/Microeconomics

Activities:

  • Senior Computer Team
  • Intermediate Computer Team
  • Machine Learning Club
  • Varsity Math Team
  • Computer Vision Club
  • Math Modeling Club
  • Physics Team

Experiences

CerealCodes

Founder and President

June 2022 - Present

Responsibilities and Achievements:

  • Founded a competitive programming organization that creates coding competitions and educational resources for students around the world
  • Obtained over 1,000 participants within a year from 2022 to 2023
  • Hosted annual team competitions with 927 participants from 77 countries and 472 teams from 2022-2023
  • Raised over $35,000 value in prizes and raffles from various sponsors including tutoring organizations and startup companies
  • Managed a team of 50+ passionate coders including problemsetters, web developers, and outreach coordinators

Naval Research Laboratory

Deep Learning Intern

June 2023 - August 2023

Responsibilities and Achievements:

  • Created and trained a contrastive image-to-image pretraining model for the UVCGAN model of a physics-based acoustics simulator
  • Managed code changes using GitLab by coordinating a review system to prevent code from breaking
  • Created a systematic way to calculate and output metrics to measure the effectiveness of various models
  • Worked on and tested large language models (LLMs) for document retrieval, writing code, and various other tasks

USACO Guide

Content Manager

February 2021 - Present

Responsibilities and Achievements:

  • Managed a team of 30+ open source contributors and content authors
  • Reviewed code and module explanations on GitHub to improve content quality for the USACO Guide, a website with over 53.2k users and 12.69M pageviews
  • Created the Combinatorics and Digit DP modules and contributed problems and solutions to countless others
  • Interviewed and recruited new content authors and managed weekly Content Author progress forms

Competitive Programming Initiative

Director of Classes

June 2022 - Present

Responsibilities and Achievements:

  • Managed a team of 25+ instructors as the director of USACO Silver classes
  • Led a class of over 100+ students two hours a week
  • Helped raise $5,000+ in funds from live classes and managed financial aid applications
  • Recruited new instructors and advertised classes on various platforms

Projects

CerealCodes

Project 1

CerealCodes is a high quality programming contest designed by BracketCS, an organization of high schoolers passionate about competitive programming and computer science.

EchoVest

Project 2

EchoVest is a sound localization vest paired with features such as sound classification, noise reduction, and etc. for hearing impaired individuals.

Piling Papers

Project 3

Piling Papers was a Digit DP problem I made for the 2023 USACO February Gold Contest, which had 1030 participants.

TheraSpeak

Project 4

TheraSpeak is a 2-part AI system, providing aid for both people who need help with mental health, as well as Hotline Workers who may need aid in some situations.

TripGPT

Project 5

TripGPT is an all-in-one trip advisor that could help overwhelmed tourists plan trips. It takes several inputs from the user and outputs a detailed itinerary.

Sleeping in Class

Project 6

Sleeping in Class was a problem I wrote for the 2022 Februrary USACO Bronze Contest, which had 5129 participants.

Counting Liars

Project 7

Sleeping in Class was a problem I wrote for the 2022 US Open USACO Bronze Contest, which had 2604 participants.

Combinatorics Module

Project 8

I created a combinatorics module on USACO Guide, a website with over 53.2k views.

Digit DP Module

Project 6

I created a Digit DP module on USACO Guide, a website with over 53.2k views, based on Piling Papers.

Sleeping in Class 2

Project 6

Sleeping in Class (Platinum) was a problem I coauthored for the 2022 February USACO Platinum Contest, which had 479 participants.

Circular Barn

Project 6

Circular Barn was a problem I coauthored for the 2022 December USACO Silver Contest, which had 2972 participants.

MetaBiz

Project 6

I created an AI-powered website for users to search queries related to finance and business using an LLM API called Metaphor.

Dietbetes

Project 6

Dietbetes is a web and mobile app that uses linear optimization to cater custom meal plans for inidivduals with diabetes.

Awards

USACO Platinum Division

Achieved Platinum Division in the USA Computing Olympiad in 2022, which ranks me in the top 1% of precollegiate programmers in the United States.

Meta Hackercup Round 2 T-Shirt Winner

Ranked top 1642 out of 27,000 precollegiate and collegiate programmers worldwide, and I earned a T-Shirt for ranking amongst the Top 2,000 participants in Round 2.

MIT IEEE URTC Technical Paper Acceptance

Obtained a guaranteed IEEE paper for my EchoVest project, and I will be presenting at MIT for the conference.

Presidential Volunteer Service Gold Award

Obtained the PVSA Gold Award in 2022 and 2023 for obtaining over 300 volunteer hours.

UMD High School Programming 2023 Contest 1st Place

Was a coder on the winning programming team for a competition at the University of Maryland.

PennApps 2023 Best AI Hack

Created a novel suicide hotline system for UPenn's hackathon and won the Best AI Hack out of 354 collegiate students.

University of Pennsylvania Spring 2023 PClassic 3rd Place

Was a coder on the 3rd place programming team for a high school coding competition at the University of Pennsylvania.

Widener Fall 2022 High School Programming Contest 3rd Place

Was a coder on the 3rd place programming team for a high school coding competition at Widener University.

Cornell High School 2023 Programming Contest 4th Place

Was a coder on the 4th place programming team for a high school coding competition at Cornell University.