Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D. Candidate, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Aug 2022 – May 2027 (Expected)University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Advisor: R. Srikant
M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering
Aug 2017 – May 2019University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Advisor: R. Srikant
B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering
Aug 2014 – May 2017University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Highest Honors Minor in Mathematics James Scholar Honors Program
Work Experience
ML Researcher Intern
Summer 2026NVIDIA · Autonomous Vehicles · Santa Clara, CA
Agentic search for video retrieval
Applied Scientist Intern
May 2024 – Aug 2024Amazon · Product Quality & Perfect Order Experience · Seattle, WA
Ensemble models predicting customer satisfaction from behavioral signals.
AutoGluon Polars AWS Apache Spark
Applied Scientist Intern
May 2023 – Feb 2024Amazon · Search Relevance — Final Stage Ranking · Palo Alto, CA
Listwise-ranking LLM for final-stage product search ranking.
LLM PyTorch Hugging Face AWS
AI Researcher and Team Lead
May 2019 – Aug 2022VUNO Inc. · Advanced Research · South Korea
Led research and built deep learning models for medical imaging (X-ray, CT, MRI, histopathology).
PyTorch Computer Vision Medical Imaging
Cryptography Developer Intern
Jun 2017 – Aug 2017ICTK Holdings · South Korea
Elliptic-curve cryptography library for resource-constrained embedded systems.
C Assembly Cryptography
Technical Skills
Programming Languages
Python C Assembly
Machine Learning & Data Science
PyTorch Hugging Face Pandas Polars Scikit-learn
Research Interests
Generative AI Stochastic Optimization Probability Theory