Resume

Experience

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Software Engineering Intern
Apple Inc.
Peak Power Management, Battery Software
May 2026 – August 2026 (In Progress)
Cupertino, CA
  • Internship in progress.
Software Engineering Intern
Apple Inc.
Books & Notes, iOS Quality Engineering
May 2025 – August 2025
Cupertino, CA
  • Led pre-submission testing for the Books/Notes iOS 26 redesign, including seed and Root build sign-offs.
  • Filed 28 critical P1 bugs; in the first two months ranked second of eight FTE engineers.
  • Prototyped an agentic workflow via Radar, GitHub, and Device MCPs to autonomously verify fixes on-device.
  • Created documentation covering 30+ Book Store elements, streamlining bug reporting and testing.
Research Assistant – LLM Agents
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Professor Lingming Zhang
January 2026 – Present
Champaign, IL
  • Open-sourced Spec-Bench extension for agent swarms (Llama-70B + 1B); wrote canonical C++ baseline, agent hit 5.66× speedup. Stratified prompt subset cut eval wall time from 3h to 3min with 0.7% bias.
  • Designed three context management configurations; persistent sessions ran 3–4× cheaper than resetting loops on long evaluation runs.
  • Built algorithmic analysis pipeline auditing 739 agent programs via three plot families (score progression, parent-selection, code-diversity); revealed extreme greediness in 9/10 problems and surfaced data-quality issues for the paper.
Research Assistant – AI & Computer Vision
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Professor Saurabh Gupta
June 2024 – August 2024
Champaign, IL
  • Built forearm GoPro mount for eye-in-hand fine-grained manipulation data collection.
  • Tuned HaMeR transformer model for 3D hand reconstruction on wrist-mounted camera; ablations dropped the RCNN framing stage and threshold tuning improved detection.
  • Presented findings at the UIUC Research Symposium; research contributed to a paper accepted to CVPR 2025.
Software Engineering Intern
U.S. Department of Energy, Argonne National Laboratory
May 2023 – August 2023
Lemont, IL
  • Built interactive Svelte front-end for electric vehicle charging metrics in the AFLEET carbon emissions database.
  • Wrote SQL queries to construct electrical-rate lookup tables powering the AFLEET charging calculator.
  • Identified and reported a critical flaw to the United States Utility Rate Database team.
Software Engineering & Finance Intern
LanzaJet Inc.
June 2022 – September 2024
Deerfield, IL
  • Built Python tool to generate jet-fuel and commodity-market statistics with Matplotlib, sourcing data from XML-based SOAP API, JSON-based REST API, and web scraping via Beautiful Soup.
  • Automated extraction of commodity metadata for financial modeling; serialized parameters to JSON and crafted a Python pipeline to retrieve them and analyze data with Pandas.
  • Led cross-functional team to design and build refinery Sample Lab Test Inventory system in MS Power Apps; secure forms feed Dataverse database, which drives AVEVA PI Vision dashboards or exports to Excel.

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
BS/MCS 5-Year Program
AI & Data Focus
Grainger College of Engineering
Champaign, IL
2024 – May 2027 (Master’s expected)
GPA: 3.96 / 4.00
Pursuing a combined 5-year BS/MCS in Computer Science with a focus on AI & Data at the Grainger College of Engineering.
Relevant Coursework
Deep Learning · Artificial Intelligence · Applied ML · Text Information Systems · Database Systems · Algorithms
Oakton College
Computer Science
Des Plaines, IL
Undergraduate
2022 - 2024
Achieved a 4.0 GPA while at Oakton College taking engineering and computer science classes.

Awards & Achievements

UIUC Honors & Leadership
Academic & Research Recognition
  • AI Research Presenter (2024) – Presented Computer Vision project at Illinois Summer Research Symposium (ISRS)
Tau Beta Pi – UIUC Engineering Honor Society
  • Member (2024–2026) – National engineering honor society
  • Committee Lead – Pi Mile Run 5K (2025) – Organized 50+ runner charity race, led 20-person team
  • Outstanding Member Award (2025) – 2× recipient, recognized for exceptional leadership and initiative ($500 award)
Academic Achievement
  • Dean’s List (2024–2026) – Top 20% of engineering class
Scholarships & Academic Awards
  • Engineering Visionary Scholarship (2025–2026) – Merit award supporting outstanding Illinois engineers and future innovators
  • NVIDIA - John Nickolls Memorial Scholarship (2025–2026) – Pioneer of GPU computing and inventor of CUDA, awarded to top UIUC computer science students.
  • Ruth and Harold Hayward Scholarship (2025–2026) – Merit award for academic excellence and community impact
  • Academic Merit Scholarship – UIUC (2024–2026) – Competitive scholarship awarded to top students in engineering
  • Full Academic Merit Scholarship – Oakton College (2022–2024) – Covered full tuition based on GPA and leadership
Early Recognition
  • President’s Scholar (2022–2024) – 4-time recipient; top honors student at Oakton College
  • Congressman Brad Schneider STEM Scholar (2019–2020) – Selected for prestigious program recognizing top STEM students in Illinois’ 10th District

Languages

Python
Swift
C++
Java
JavaScript
SQL

AI / ML

PyTorch
TensorFlow
MLX
LoRA
LLM Fine-Tuning
FAISS
HuggingFace
RAG
Prompt Engineering
Agentic Systems

Tools & Frameworks

Flask
Svelte
SwiftUI
Docker
Git
Pandas
NumPy
Matplotlib
Beautiful Soup
Tableau

Platforms

AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud
Snowflake
OpenClaw
macOS / iOS
Linux