Projects

Here are a few things I've enjoyed working on in a current or past life.

Mechanistic Interpretability Research

  • Uncovered complete circuit for spatial reasoning in vision-language transformers through activation patching as an undergraduate student researcher in the Torralba Lab.
  • Designed novel, automated tools and visualizers for cost-efficient mechanistic interpretability used by researchers.

HybridMerge

  • Designed novel KV cache compression combining local merges based on cosine similarity with Sinkhorn-Knopp on an optimal transport framing, beating SOTA on long-context benchmarks under extreme compression ratios.
  • Reduced computational complexity by up to $20\times$ and proved first output error bounds for merge-based KV caches.

2D Material-Based Transistors

  • Developed a gold-mediated exfoliation process to transfer MoS₂ monolayers onto Si/SiO₂ substrates.
  • Used precision lithography to pattern transistors with 100 µm gate lengths and 10 µm channel widths, overcoming sub-10 µm alignment tolerances. Multiple prototypes manufactured with reliable gating behavior and IV curve.

Fault-Tolerant Distributed Key-Value Store

  • Designed and engineered a highly-available, sharded key/value service from scratch with many shard groups for scalability, reconfiguration to handle changes in load, and with a fault-tolerant controller.
  • Ensured improved throughput from Raft and 100% linearizability during crashes, partitions, and dropped RPCs.

F=math

fequalsmath.org
  • Founded math competition non-profit; led 12 volunteers and impacted over 300 students, donating over $5000.
  • Organized 5-day in-person summer camp, wrote 100+ hours of curriculum, organized 70-problem math tournament, managed 10 classes and 200+-member Discord, leveraged social media and partnered with 5+ organizations.

blog.api

  • Developed a dashboard and frontend blog UI supporting post creation with links and images using Contentful.
  • Created REST APIs for the backend to manage edition and deletion of posts, comments, and images in real time, live tracking of views, search features for posts, and email subscriptions. Garnered more than 20,000 views.

TuneTutors

  • Designed rhythm games and a song mnemonic generator using Suno to assist students with learning disabilities.
  • Constructed game client that matched an educational song with adaptive, interactive lyrics using React.JS.
  • Built an authentication pipeline and machine learning framework to generate unique games for individual users.