i like kant, dogs, and algorithms.
weighted gpa: 4.56/4.80
some cool classes, conjugated:
27+ tournaments, one tournament of champions bid, and a top-50 national ranking. wanna see my round?
people also paid me to coach it, at harker’s middle school and summer camp.
i write problems for other people to struggle with: 20+ for the girls programming league and harker programming invitational. i also run usaco prep sessions.
workshops on chocolate, calligraphy, and french film. articles for sans limite on baudrillard and the may 1968 protests. two years of peer tutoring.
co-wrote a 40-page paper on the unintended effects of u.s. nuclear nonproliferation policy in iran, israel, and turkey, then got picked to present it at middlebury college, alongside students from india, pakistan, japan, and norway.
i help run discussions on politics in the harker community: foreign policy, abortion, gun control, and, recursively, civil discourse itself.
two years of computational physics on granular materials, i.e. why piles of rough little particles behave the way they do. so far: millions of simulations, a 15,000+ line cuda/c++ and python codebase, and eight weeks on-site in new haven.
1,152 essays is a lot of essays. i built ai-assisted workflows to help the team assess submissions to the amartya sen and nelson mandela essay prizes.
i pitched policy to local officials and got two resolutions passed: one for homeless housing funding, one for philosophy in schools (totally unbiased). also voter data, canvassing, and phonebanking in san josé and at uc merced.
12 weeks researching candidates, endorsements, ballot measures, and voter guides for the 2026 midterms, so voters didn’t have to.
i researched wildfire prevention and ai safety and turned it into plain-english resources for constituents in california’s 16th district.
robotics and programming for 1,000+ students in under-resourced communities, with 20+ volunteers and $10,000+ raised. we’ve taught at boys & girls clubs, san josé family supportive housing, four schools in india, and (over zoom) an 80-hour python course in vietnam.
i ask philosophers questions on camera, then edit out my ums. 14+ interviews and 30,000+ views, with guests like thomas pogge, joseph carens, and joshua knobe.
who decides the principles ai should follow? we figured students should get a vote. so: youth surveys, an international student community, a youth-authored “constitution for ai,” and a partnership with the aspen institute’s philosopher’s salon.
36 tournaments, six championships, five trips to worlds, and one division final (top 28). i wrote a 10,000+ line c++ autonomous navigation stack (pid, odometry, pure pursuit), open-sourced it, and mentored a middle-school team all the way to worlds.
40+ tours given, plaques researched (congress springs, mary brown), and one dorothea johnston exhibit revamped. ask me about saratoga. please.
a 2026 us open invitee, top 75 in the country. favorite data structure: whichever one passes the time limit.
can we fairly punish people if determinism is true? i wrote about it, and the john locke institute gave it a high commendation (top 3% internationally).
ten years of kyoshin-ryu: two regional kata golds, a u.s. open semifinal, and 70+ hours teaching kids to bow before they punch.
yes, that’s a real title. 15+ concerts with my youth orchestra, second prize in baroque at the san francisco international innovative music competition, and six younger musicians mentored.
mostly light, flowers, and birds that hold still long enough.
mostly fluff, occasionally airborne.
three years of grammar, literature, and conversation through sanskrit as a foreign language. now i’m a teaching assistant, which means the declension questions come to me.
