about
I'm a computer science undergraduate at Stanford. Before software became the center of what I was doing, I spent several years moving through very different kinds of research — craniofacial morphology, cultural anthropology, computational chemistry — alongside a lot of writing.
That path wasn't especially planned. I was interested in people, in what gets measured about them, and in what gets lost when complicated information is reduced to something easier to represent. Those questions eventually pulled me toward computer science.
Now I spend most of my time building and evaluating systems for finding, organizing, and interpreting information — from search infrastructure to automated sleep scoring. I'm especially interested in systems that appear to work until you look closely at where and how they fail.
Outside of code, I've spent years writing, doing research connected to Sri Lanka, teaching, and working on WHO WE ARE. I also competed in karate for a decade and still occasionally write poetry.
outside of code
WHO WE ARE is a storytelling nonprofit I founded to amplify first-person narratives from historically underrepresented communities. I founded it while I was in high school; it has since published 50+ first-person narratives from contributors in 7+ countries, across writing, audio, and video storytelling, and was featured in The Sunday Times.
It's the longest-running thing I've made, and the one that most shaped what I pay attention to now.
a few things i'm proud of
- World Shotokan Karate-do Association Championship — Gold Medalist
- Scholastic Art & Writing Awards — 2× Silver Key
- Science Olympiad — State Champion
- First-author publication — International Journal of Morphology