cs student at santa clara university ('28). i work on machine learning systems,
autonomous agents, and high-performance computing. currently a campus strategist
at perplexity.
prompt placement dominates retention: a harness
audit of gui-agent screenshot history. four retention rules tie, and the thing that
actually moved accuracy was where the prompt was rendered. eccv.
dm me for the pdf.
projects
toolforge: self-extending agent system that generates,
validates, and stores its own tools. crewai pipeline over a snowflake vector registry,
sandboxed execution with ast import filtering. 2nd place, snowflake hackathon.
rustforge: autoresearch loop that runs 50 parallel llm
agents per round to rewrite slow python into rust via pyo3 on modal. 446-548x speedup on a
1m-element baseline, verified by property fuzzing. honorable mention, openai × modal.
cineflow: vision transformer fine-tuned on 10k clips to
pick video cut points, 23% better f1 than a c3d baseline. served on aws lambda at
sub-250ms on 1080p. 1st place, adobe hackathon.
work
perplexity: campus strategist, aug 2025 to present. referral campaigns and
peer-to-peer demos; $5,000+ in referral revenue. partnered with acm at scu and ai collaborate.
canyon view technology: technology intern, summer 2023. lua implementation of
the haversine equation for gps rover navigation, plus the test pass and documentation.
