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Board Member and Advocacy Chair, Santa Clara Unified Council of PTAs

Representing 30+ high schools in the board of the Parent-Teacher-Student Association for promoting student interests to school, local and state administrators and lawmakers, and coordinating actions among parents, students and school chapters.
Achievements:

1. Lobbied the district to replace single-use plastic in school cafeterias
2. Hosted and moderated candidate forum for SCUSD Board of Trustees election
3. Worked to bring mental health resources to all students in SCUSD schools

Only student on the board.

Environmental Awareness and Sustainability Initiatives Steering Committee Member and Task Force Lead, Santa Clara Unified School District

I helped integrate environmental curriculum into the syllabus and create a structure that connected students, parents, and other stakeholders across 30+ schools in the district. As the only high school student in a leadership position, I worked directly with the superintendent to monitor impact of new environmental policies on the school grounds.

President and Founder, CESA

I started and lead Computing for Environmental and Social Advocacy (CESA), an Allen-school affiliated student organization focusing on computer science-based solutions to social and environmental issues.

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Project Lead, AIEA Lab

At the Artificial Intelligence Explainability and Accountability(AIEA) Lab, UC Santa Cruz, I lead a team of 5-6 fellow researchers in the area of large language model robustness. (See the ‘Publications’ tab for more)

Student Senator, University of Washington

As a designated student Senator at the University of Washington, I represent a constituency of around 1000 students in the university’s student governing body. I work with other senators to craft and vote on legislation that makes the campus more safe, sustainable, and a fun place to learn. I am part of the following committees: General Affairs, Campus Affairs, Oversight, and Governance.

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Choitee

Created a web app and Android app using Javascript and PHP that provides mental health guidance to teenagers, helps patients communicate with trusted people, and connects them with medical professionals. I created this to help my peers after recovering from my own suicide attempt.

Skills: Javascript Android PHP

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GoThere

Created an iOS app using Swift and Xcode that utilizes image classification and location tracking to identify where a user is and point out prominent geographic features in pictures the user takes. Integrated with rideshare and rental services to allow the user to build an itinerary.

Skills: Swift iOS App Store Xcode UberKit WeatherKit BudgetAPI MapKit UI/UX Design

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WebAssistant

Created an AI assistant that can be integrated into any website. The AI assistant is housed in a React+Express app that can be deployed by a Python interface. Uses state-of-the-art retrieval augmented generation (RAG) techniques to give end users the best experience.

Skills: Langchain API OpenAI API React.js Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Express.js Typescript Webpack

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Tabalchi

Created a library to parse, generate, and transcribe Indian classical music.

Skills: MIDI Audio Playback Indian Classical Music JSON Parsing Singleton Design Structure Large Language Model (LLM) Prompting

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The Effect of Targeting Cancer Stem Cells on the Metastasis of Malignant Tumors

1 poster
Used clonal evolution to model and analyze the effects of different cancer treatments on the probability of metastasis.

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Let’s Agree to Disagree: Towards a Solution to the Disagreement Problem in Explainability

Published in ICPRAI and Arxiv

2 papers (4 total versioned papers).
Explanatory systems give us a peek under the hood of blackbox ML models. This collection encompasses my work analyzing differences between explanatory systems, quantifying these differences, and integrating the resulting metrics into machine learning pipelines.

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Nonsense: A priori Detection of Hallucinations in LLMs

Nothing here yet

Oceans are Listening: Our Foreign Policy Must Speak

Published: October 01, 2021

In this TEDx speech to faculty and students at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, I lay out a novel 3-point foreign policy proposal and the foundations of an international agreement to combat plastic pollution. Many of my proposals coincided with the positions adopted by the countries at the UN Nairobi Conference a few years later.

Venue TEDx

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The Importance of Computing in Sustainability Efforts

Published: December 10, 2023

I was invited as a guest speaker to Principles of Sustainability (ESRM 300), a class at the University of Washington taught by Professor Lisa Graumlich. I spoke to students about the work I was doing with the CESA club on campus, as well as how computing can impact the fields of environmental and social advocacy.

Venue University of Washington

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Plastic-fantastic? A domestic blueprint for fighting plastic pollution

Published: December 10, 2023

My award-winning documentary for C-SPAN StudentCam, selected among thousands of entries across the nation. Here, I focus on domestic approaches to the plastic pollution problem. I also got the chance to showcase my documentary at Taco Bell’s Live Mas Conference at San Diego, California

Venue Taco Bell Live Mas Conference C-SPAN

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Light and Salt Academy Tutor

Tutoring, Light and Salt Academy, 2020

Taught K-12 math and computer science to children from refugee families. Honored with the Presidential Voluteer Service Gold Medal for my work.

Unpaid/Volunteer

Teacher Assistant at Mission College

Tutoring, Mission College, 2024

Hired to be a teaching assistant for 12 courses across computer science, biology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics. Left after a few months due to a personal health emergency.

Paid