Recent UC San Diego Computer Science graduate. I spent two and a half years as a Research Intern at the Qualcomm Institute (CALIT2), building quantum-secured video communications, quantum search algorithms, and machine learning classification pipelines.
Outside the lab, I co-founded San Diego CTF and the Quantum Computing Student Association at UCSD, served as President of ACM Cyber through COVID lockdown, and built a MERN-stack platform serving 2,400 monthly users for RIT Esports.
I care about making technical ideas usable and understandable — whether that means translating research-level specifications into working software, or writing documentation that lets people solve problems without asking for help.
- Built a frame-level encryption pipeline for live video with sub-millisecond latency overhead, enabling real-time AES-128-GCM encryption (FFmpeg, WebRTC Insertable Streams).
- Simulated a noisy quantum channel (Poisson photon source, fiber attenuation, detector modeling) to validate protocol correctness — used to verify eavesdrop detection via error rate anomalies.
- Presented algorithmic research to IBM's VP of Quantum during campus visit.
- Co-founded to fill a gap in undergraduate quantum computing education at UCSD. Restructured processes and formalized handoffs before graduating — org survived complete leadership turnover and is now nationally chartered as QCSA.
- As President, maintained org engagement through full COVID lockdown when most student orgs lost momentum.
- Centralized documentation for the 500-member org in Notion with role-based least-privilege access controls.
- Built and deployed a MERN-stack platform via Docker serving 2,400 monthly active visitors across 6 varsity esports teams with 99.9% uptime.
- Co-founded San Diego's largest annual cybersecurity competition — hundreds of competitors across 20+ countries, running for two annual iterations.
- Built the Discord bot submission interface (Discord.JS) used by all competitors across both years — zero onboarding friction.
- Sole IT resource for transitioning the center to remote operations during COVID-19, keeping ~25 client families and ~15 active students connected.