Most language models treat Chinese characters as opaque IDs. But a character has anatomy — radicals, components, spatial structure. My work encodes that anatomy directly, so a model can reason about characters it has never seen.
A structure-aware language model representing Chinese characters through Ideographic Description Sequences to handle rare, out-of-vocabulary forms. Led design, experiments, evaluation, and the manuscript.
An AI platform tracing bill evolution, sponsorship, lobbying, and campaign finance — a LangChain / LangGraph RAG system over Congress.gov, GovInfo, and FEC data on Google Cloud Run.
An NLP and econometric pipeline over 100M job postings across 72 countries — identifying firm-level AI adoption and shifts in labor demand through language models, causal inference, and forecasting. Qualified via the Shanghai Science Seed Olympiad.
Gold Medalist, ranked #9 globally with an individual score of 176.76. Captained Team China-1 — designing preparation, delegating analysis, directing strategy — to the Business Case silver and second place globally.
Gold Award for original research in economic and financial modeling.
A student nonprofit, fiscally sponsored by Hack Club, turning technical ideas into accessible tools and educational programs. I oversee financial planning, sponsorships, and operations.
An adaptive audio platform combining generative music, DSP, and real-time EEG feedback. Project manager and full-stack developer.
A low-burden smart garment: embedded sensing, on-device ML, AI-assisted insights. Directed strategy, market research, financial modeling, and the pitch at the University of Delaware finals.
Market and user research, partnership pipelines, and shipped full-stack product features.
The other half of studying language is writing it. Creative work recognized with three Scholastic Gold Keys; competitive argument at the Harvard World Schools Debate Open; a standing interest in world literature, philosophy, and theology.