BACKGROUND
Where I've worked
and studied.
Research on learning-based optimization, software work, teaching, and some academic service.
Experience
Teaching Assistant II · Signals & Systems
FALL 2026Columbia University, Department of Electrical Engineering · ELEN E3801 with Prof. Xiaodong Wang.
Research Assistant · Machine Learning & Graph Optimization
JAN 2026 — PRESENTTensor & Deep Learning Lab, Columbia University · I work on Learning-to-Algorithm solvers for combinatorial optimization. I built Transformer-based graph embeddings, curriculum-learning workflows and policy networks for MaxCut, and benchmarked their gains over exact-solver baselines.
Special Track Chair & Paper Reviewer · IEEE IDS 2026
MAR — MAY 2026IEEE · Special Track Chair for Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Discovery and Creative Art (AI4Science&Art) at the 12th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Data and Security, and a paper reviewer.
Computer Science Course Mentor / Tutor
MAY 2023 — DEC 2025Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute · Tutored more than 150 students in Data Structures, Algorithms and Professional Software Development, one on one, with code review and debugging help in Python and C++.
Undergraduate Research Assistant · AI & Quantum Computing
SEP 2024 — SEP 2025Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute · I led the reinforcement-learning work on quantum circuit design and wrote three MDP formulations for ten tasks. I also built a 190,000-instance Ising dataset and a reproducible Transformer-RL benchmark pipeline. The results were published at AAAI and NeurIPS workshops.
Contest Organizer & Paper Reviewer · RLSolver Contest 2025
JUN — SEP 2025Tensor & Deep Learning Lab · I built the participant starter kit (baseline RL solvers and evaluation tools), worked on the contest website and documentation, and reviewed CFP-track submissions.
Education
Columbia University
SEP 2026 — EXPECTED DEC 2027M.S. in Electrical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
DEC 2025B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics
Capabilities
Software & infrastructure
Python · Java · TypeScript · React · Next.js · Spring Boot · FastAPI · SQL · Docker · AWS
AI & research
Reinforcement learning · Transformer models · Graph optimization · Curriculum learning · RAG · Experiment design
Teaching & academic service
Signals and systems · Programming mentorship · Code review · Paper review · Conference organization
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