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I design simulation environments for humans to co-reason with machines and research the AI that drives them. The hardest problems demand clarity under chaos. I believe this clarity comes from radically fluid interfaces where humans can role-play the future before it happens.

Currently, I work on battlefield sims at Gallatin and study CS & Neuroscience at UCI. Before this, I spent a stint at Palantir and NASA, and dabbled in startups at Contrary and 8VC.

I'm an experimentalist at heart. I've won 15 hackathons including the world's largest AI hackathon, built 911 dispatch agents at Berkeley Skydeck, ran the largest U.S. designathon, prototyped spacesuit displays, and presented lunar route-planning simulations at the European Space Agency.

As a kid I built cardboard claw machines and sold handmade clothes in my living room. Augmenting perception and beauty felt like alchemy. Henceforth, I made it my life's mission to master (and elevate) the art of human experience.

You can find me sampling cortados at coffee shops, writing, or lingering on a portrait at a museum. My favorite painting is the Blue Boy.

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Past life

Design Engineer,Gallatin AI

Fall 2024

Collaborating with military logisticians to design and deploy predictive resupply forecasts and combat simulations for battlefield logistics. Built new UX promitive for exposing model reasoning. Wrote full-stack production code. First design intern.

Product Designer,Palantir

Summer 2024

Designing the V1 intelligence analysis framework to surface hidden dependencies across nodes and visualize cascading effects + V1 for entity-based knowledge sharing system in simulation platform. Deployed in active combat and used by 2,000 government officials.

Researcher,NASA JSC

2025

Researching and deploying simulation software and HMDs for lunar route planning, presented to NASA astronauts & flight director. Wrote first author paper presented at the European Space Agency. $20,000 in funding from the UCI CS department.

Researcher,Contrary

2024 - 2025

Contrary is a venture firm creating more than $10 billion in value through companies like Ramp and Anduril. Wrote 4 startup investment memos published to over 100,000 subscribers.

Co-Founder,Dispatch AI (Skydeck 24')

2024

Designing and building the V1 of triage system for non-emergency 911 calls and interaction workflow with AI Dispatch agents. Worked with dispatchers and police chiefs across the U.S.

Director,UCI Designathon

2023 - 2025

Leading the largest design hackathon in the United States. Scaled from 1 to a 40 member team. Raised $20,000 in funding from Figma and Notion. Put on every hat.