About Me

Hi there! 👋

I’m a computer science master’s student at the University of Minnesota, advised by Favonia. My current research is in programming languages and formal methods, specifically cubical type theory and synthetic homotopy theory.

I’ve also worked as a researcher for SIFT, specializing in compilers and binary analysis. Previously I worked as a software engineer at Swoop Search and AWS.

Before that, I was a CTF hobbyist. I created EasyCTF, a cybersecurity competition for high schoolers. I also briefly played with the CTF team Project Sekai.

Academic life

I’m currently doing a thesis project for my master’s program, involving the mechanization of spectral sequences using cubical Agda. See some of my blog posts to follow along with my research!

Research projects

• cubeviz. A visualizer for cubical type theory that can assist with constructing hcomps.
• type theory repo. The main repository for my Agda code for my research project.

Conferences and summer schools

History of conferences and academic events I’ve attended.

• ICFP 2024, PLMW workshop. Milan, Italy.
• MURI 2024. Pittsburgh, PA.
• Unimath 2024. Minneapolis, MN.
• OPLSS 2024. Boston, MA.
• Midwest PL Summit 2023. Ann Arbor, MI.

Undergraduate teaching

In undergrad, I worked briefly as a teaching assistant.

• CSCI 2041, Advanced Programming Principles with Prof. Eric van Wyk.

University Involvement

I also love to participate in computing related student groups at the University of Minnesota. Here’s some of the groups that I’m involved with:

• GopherHack. I’m one of the founding officers at the GopherHack organization, hoping to grow a CTF community at the University. I prepare material for club activities.
• PL Seminar. A group focused on reading and discussing programming languages related papers.
• UMN Kernel Object. A group dedicated to studying operating system development, created in the aftermath of the UMN Linux kernel controversy.
• ACM. I was webmaster in undergrad and wrote the current ACM website, as well as helping out with other events such as CTF.

Previously, I was also involved with:

• SASE. I was webmaster and was involved in organizing student group events as well.

Open-source Projects

Some of the projects I’ve been working on in my free time include:

• Wisesplit. A tool for easily splitting the bill with friends.
• Garbage. A CLI interface to the trash can API.
• Leanshot. A Linux screen capture tool.

More can be found on my public Forgejo instance.

I’ve also started making an increased effort at using and supporting FOSS, and other software that’re not predatory towards users. As a part of this effort, I’m also self-hosting and rewriting some of the services and software that I use regularly.

Hobbies

Outside of computer science, I love cooking, music, and games. In particular, I’m a huge fan of rhythm games.

Occasionally, I also like to take some time and immerse myself in some random hobby. Here are some things that I have taken interest in before:

• Chess
• Lock picking
• Bouldering
• Craft beer

If you’re in the Minneapolis or Twin Cities area, let’s chat!