About Me
I’m a rising senior at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora, Illinois, and plan to dual major in Computer Science and Math. I’ve loved computer science ever since I was 11, making games on Scratch. Since then, I’ve been taking my education into my own hands, completing the Computer programming and Pixar in a Box courses on Khan Academy during middle school. I’ve loved math for even longer, being placed in classes equal to those being taken by students several grades above my own. To learn more, I applied to IMSA and got in. Since then, I’ve been satiating my hunger for knowledge by taking difficult classes, doing Math and Computer Science extracurriculars, and building projects to make my daily life easier.
Despite spending so much time on it, I do enjoy things outside of my intended majors. I’m the captain of my school’s Quiz Bowl team and a member of the IMSA Society of Musical Performers. I also direct and film movies for IMSA’s annual Clash of the Halls competition, and consistently place in the top two. In my free time, I enjoy playing Ultimate Frisbee, Super Smash Brothers, Table Tennis, and Magic the Gathering.
Education
I got accepted to IMSA in the spring of my eighth grade, and, as IMSA is a three year school, I skipped my freshman year and joined IMSA as a sophomore that fall. While there, I took several difficult computer science and math classes, such as Computational Science, Computer Science Seminar: Linux and Cybersecurity, Number Theory, Abstract Algebra, Multivariable Calculus, Differential Equations, and Linear Algebra.
Experience
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Student Inquiry and Research
September 2023 - April 2024
I worked with Dr. Ashwin Mohan, a member of the IMSA Computer Science faculty, to develop a diffusion model that could copy the font from an input character and transfer it to other characters.
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IMSAlympians Computer Science Facilitator
August 2023 - Present
As the Computer Science Facilitator for IMSAlympians, I ran study sessions to teach competitive programming skills to IMSA students in preparation for the United States of America Computing Olympiad.
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IMSA Peer Tutor
August 2023 - Present
I tutored IMSA students after school for at least three hours a week in various subjects, including Precalculus, Calculus, Computer Science, Chemistry, Physics, and French. Within Computer Science, I mainly tutored HTML, CSS, Python, and Java.
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AbbVie Summer Intern
June 2024 - August 2024
I worked as a summer intern for the Business Technology Solutions branch of AbbVie. There, I learned several Python libraries, including Streamlit and PostgreSQL, while working on the admin page for a LLM they had been training.
Knowledge
Web Development is definitely the sector of Computer Science I have the most experience in, and I’ve worked with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node.js, Express.js, RESTful APIs, and MongoDB. I’ve also done some work in Machine Learning, and know Python, NumPy, and PyTorch. I also used Streamlit and PostgreSQL during my time as an AbbVie Summer Intern. For various other classes and projects, I’ve used Selenium, Java, and C#.
Projects
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Comprehensive Notes on Linear Algebra
(NOTE: STILL IN PROGRESS) Introduces vectors and vector spaces first, which lead to linear transformations as a foundation for understanding matrices. After that, they look into solving systems of linear equations in the context of transformations, matrix factorizations, determinants, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, projections, and Singular Value Decomposition.
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YT Music/Spotify Lyrics Fetcher
Uses the Genius API to look up the song that is currently playing on Youtube Music or Spotify and fetch its lyrics. Those lyrics are then displayed in the Chrome Side Panel alongside Previous/Next Song and Pause/Play Buttons.