Experience

Where and how I've been involved.

Current

  1. Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Department

    Teaching Assistant

    May 2026 – Present

    Pittsburgh, PA

    • Taught C systems programming (malloc, caches, concurrency, networking) to grad/undergrad students.
    • Led weekly recitations and code reviews; designed/graded exams and held office hours.

  2. Carnegie Mellon University Safe AI Lab

    Research Assistant

    Feb 2026 – Present

    Pittsburgh, PA

    • Contribute to real-time data collection stack for dexterous robot manipulation.
    • Improved gesture-based state machine and hand capture via Apple Vision Pro landmarks.
    • Collected hand demos involving pouring, cutting, folding, and tool use.

  3. ScottyLabs @ Carnegie Mellon University

    React Web Developer

    Sept 2025 – Present

    Pittsburgh, PA

    • Contribute to star ratings and reviews for CMUEats.com.
    • Developed sorting by location, rating, and hours; used React Query for optimistic updates and caching.

Previous

  1. Stanford University

    Summer Intern

    Aug 2024 – Aug 2024

    Stanford, CA

    • Invited to lectures on robotics, computer vision, biomedical engineering, and entrepreneurship.
    • Led a team of 5 to prototype and pitch a mobile app to promote exercise accuracy using pose estimation.

  2. The University of Texas at Dallas

    Research Intern

    Jun 2023 – Aug 2024

    Dallas, TX

    • Modeled an autonomous driving agent in the CARLA simulator using a variational autoencoder, imitation learning, and soft actor–critic; achieved lane adherence, consistent speeds, and collision avoidance.

  3. The University of Texas at Dallas

    Research Intern

    Jun 2024 – Jul 2024

    Dallas, TX

    • Trained PyTorch MLP, CNN, and LSTM regressors on NASA lithium-ion datasets across varying temperatures to model state-of-health curves (battery life and degradation); determined the LSTM to be the most accurate.

  4. The University of Texas at Dallas

    Summer Research Intern

    Jun 2022 – Aug 2022

    Dallas, TX

    • Researched inductive logic programming in Prolog to generate interpretable rules from machine learning models; strengthened understanding of explainable AI and symbolic reasoning.

  5. Dr. Meng's Coding Camp

    Teaching Assistant

    Jun 2022 – Aug 2024

    Dallas, TX

    • Taught lectures, hosted office hours, and graded homework for students in grades 6 – 10 on data structures, algorithms, and programming using the Raspberry Pi.