Experience

AI Research Intern @ Bloomberg

Jun 2026 ~ Sep 2026

Teaching Assistant @ UCLA

2025-2026

Software Dev Engineer @ Amazon

Dec 2023 ~ Jul 2024

Designed automation for product pre-compute based on given marketplace, merchant, and store utilization score
Composed a product lead time update tool that supports bulk updates (up to 1 million entries)

Research Assistant @ UNC NLP

Aug 2022 ~ Feb 2024

Benchmarked various Learning from Human Feedback methods and studied their overoptimization problem
Introduced an efficient weighted decoding method that aligns text to a given attribute with a unidirectional reward model
Explored language models' knowledge-learning process and their QA performance relative to their pre-training data
Analyzed language model hallucination and tracked wrong answers in training corpus

Software Dev Engineer Intern @ Amazon

May 2022 ~ Aug 2022

Built a Horizonte Service for Local Landing Page which displays local products available for pick up
Deployed the service to production and verified its reliability with production data
Onboarded downstream dependencies to fetch data and extended JSP to render user interface
Configured shopping portal page type and added routing rules from amazon.com

Software Engineer Intern @ Lenovo

May 2021 ~ Aug 2021

Trained encoder-decoder LSTM for anomaly detection on time series data
Participated in the design of Control Chart and Anomaly Detection Module
Performed model tuning and data grouping which improved F1 score from 0.41 to 0.48