About

I'm a Master's student in Applied Data Science at San José State, graduating December 2026, and a Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Applied Data Science, where I train and evaluate manipulation policies on a physical robot arm. I also work as an Instructional Student Assistant for machine learning.

Before grad school I spent a year and a half as a software engineer at Sapaad, building multi-tenant data pipelines that supported analytics for more than 75 customer dashboards at over five million rows a day. Before that I was a computer vision intern at Toothlens, working on an orthodontic assessment prototype that detected teeth positioning from smartphone photos. My undergraduate degree is a B.S. in Artificial Intelligence from Illinois Tech.

The thread through all of it is that I like problems where you have to build the measurement apparatus before you can tell whether the thing works. Training a policy is the easy half. The harder half is an evaluation harness that survives being interrupted, resets the scene on its own, logs every failure, and tells you honestly that you're at 92% and not at 100%. Right now I'm extending that work into Franka arms, sim-to-real transfer, and vision-language-action models for manipulation.