Education

Ph.D. Candidate, Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Aug 2022 - May 2027 (Expected)

Advisor: R. Srikant

M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Aug 2017 - May 2019

B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Aug 2014 - May 2017

Highest Honors Minor in Mathematics James Scholor Honors Program

Work Experience

Applied Scientist Intern

Amazon

Product Quality & Perfect Order Experience | Seattle, WA | May 2024 - Aug 2024

Predicting Customer Satisfaction

Understanding customer satisfaction is difficult because feedback is scarce. I developed an ensemble of machine learning models to predict customer satisfaction based on behavioral signals, which can be used to enhance downstream systems including product ranking and behavior modeling.

Ensemble Models AutoGluon Polars AWS Apache Spark

Applied Scientist Intern

Amazon

Search Relevance - Final Stage Ranking | Palo Alto, CA | May 2023 - Feb 2024

Ranking Products with LLMs

Learning to rank products is a complex task that requires understanding user intent and product relevance. I developed a listwise-ranking LLM that demonstrated superior performance over a production baseline in key ranking metrics, significantly improving search relevance.

LLM PyTorch HuggingFace Semantic Search Ranking AWS

AI Researcher and Team Lead

VUNO Inc.

Advanced Research | South Korea | May 2019 - Aug 2022

Deep Learning for Radiology

Medical imaging presents unique challenges such as limited labeled data, class imbalance, label noise, and device-specific variability. I contributed to the development and analysis of deep learning models across diverse modalities including chest X-ray, CT, MRI, and histopathology.

Deep Learning Medical Imaging Computer Vision

Promoted to Research Lead

Initiated long-term research directions across teams, collaborated closely to drive publications, and mentored junior researchers.

Leadership Mentorship

Published Research in AI & Medical Venues

Authored first-author papers at machine learning conferences (NeurIPS, AAAI) and contributed to multiple publications in leading medical imaging venues like MICCAI.

ML Research NeurIPS AAAI

Cryptography Developer Intern

ICTK Holdings

| South Korea | June 2017 - Aug 2017

Cryptography in Embedded Systems

Developed a low-latency, minimal-memory Elliptic Curve Cryptography library from scratch, optimized for resource-constrained systems.

C Assembly Cryptography Performance Optimization

Technical Skills

Programming Languages

Python C Assembly

Machine Learning & Data Science

PyTorch Hugging Face Pandas Polars Scikit-learn

Research Interests

Diffusion Processes Stochastic Optimization Probability Theory