CV
Education
- Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering (Concentration in Optimization), University of Southern California, Expected 2028
- Annenberg Fellow, QuantSC
- M.S. in Mathematical Finance, University of Southern California, Expected 2027
- B.S. in Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, 2020–2024
- 8x Dean’s Honor List, UCLA Mock Trial Team, Data Science Union
Research
NSF, Operations Research and AI (ORAI) Fellow — Feb 2026 – Present, Los Angeles, CA
Convex relaxations of integer programs - Integer distributionally robust optimization - Decision Focused Learning
Capital One, Research Fellow — Dec 2024 – May 2026, Los Angeles, CA
Mixed Integer Programming - Tight Lagrangian Relaxations - Multi Touch Attribution
Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), Quantum Algorithms Researcher — Jun 2024 – August 2024, Los Angeles, CA
Research in Industrial Projects (RIPS) - In Collaboration with NASA Ames - Classical Simulation of Quantum Circuits - Modeling Quantum Kraus Noise
Red Hen Labs, Optimal Control Researcher — Mar 2023 – May 2024, Los Angeles, CA
- Model Predictive Control - Quantum Decision Making in Protists - Modeling Trust Based Market Places
KAUST, NUMPDE Lab, Mixed Finite Elements Researcher — Apr 2023 – Jul 2023, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- Numerical approximation of PDEs using mixed finite element methods - Fluid structure interaction problems
UCLA Communication News Archive, Machine Learning Engineer — Aug 2022 – Present, Los Angeles, CA
Textual single-linkage clustering - Transcription and translation pipeline for multilingual news for use in linguistics and public policy
UCLA Paris Labs, Stochastic Optimization Researcher — Oct 2020 – Jun 2022, Los Angeles, CA
Stochastic optimization for amorphous materials - Gradient boosted particle swarm optimizer
Industry Experience
Google, Summer of Code Participant — May 2024 – Aug 2024, Los Angeles, CA
Modeling the probabilistic behavior of Stentor Roseli - Developed a quantum circuit to simulate protist decision making
UBS, Wealth Management / Data Analyst Intern — Dec 2022 – Apr 2024, Los Angeles, CA
Built NLP pipelines to scrape news articles for client prospects - Developed decision tree-based models to rank prospects by fit.
Sentient.io, Machine Learning Researcher — Jul 2022 – Jan 2023, Singapore
Built validation/testing pipelines for audio emotion recognition AI. Implemented phonetic transcription (IPA → Arphabet) and deployed speech and pose recognition models via Docker.
Origgin Venture Capital, Data Analyst Intern — Jun 2022 – Aug 2022, Singapore
Used zero-shot learning and statistical tools to detect trends in patent data and helped automate reporting of emerging green energy IP.
Vulcan Value Partners, Machine Learning Engineer Intern — Jun 2021 – Oct 2021, Birmingham, AL
Duffl, Project Manager / Data Analyst — Oct 2020 – Mar 2022, Los Angeles, CA
Led a team to build the app’s recommendation engine. Developed NLP and Bayesian models for inventory predictions and delivery optimization.
Teaching
Hodis Learning, Math Instructor — Jan 2025 – Present
Teach grades K–12 in Geometry, Calculus, Pre-Calculus, Statistics, and more.
UCLA, Teaching Assistant (MATH 32B) — Sep 2023 – Jan 2024, Los Angeles, CA
Assisted in course on multivariable integration, including line, surface, and flux integrals.
Bruin Corps, Instructor — Aug 2022 – Dec 2022, Los Angeles, CA
Taught math at underserved LA schools and helped create a tutoring program.
Mayer Cressy, Speech Instructor — Jul 2020 – Dec 2022
Taught Mock Trial and Speech & Debate to classes of 10–30 students.
Global Mock Trial, Founder — Aug 2023 – Jun 2024
Created nonprofit to promote due process education. Partnered with 20+ schools across Asia and raised $$20K.
Publications
Talks
Closed Loop Control with Jump Processes: Large-Scale Oil Production
Talk at Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Annual Conference, Arlington, Texas, USA
Dynamic Value Spaces: Moving Toward Pluralistic Alignment for Embodied AI
Talk at Beijing Forum: AI for a Harmonious Society: Building a Safe and Trustworthy Future, Beijing, China
Blind Multi-Stage Scoring Auctions with Value Function Estimation
Talk at International Conference on Industrial Logistics, Tokyo, Japan
A Pruned Shortest Path Algorithm for L_0 Optimization Problems with Rockafellian Perturbations
Poster at Capital-One CREDIF Symposium, Los Angeles, CA, USA
A Quantum Statistical Model of Decision Making in a Single-Cell Eukaryote
Poster at 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, San Francisco, CA, USA
The Ontology and Architecture of Intelligence
Talk at Social Intelligence Workshop @ Peking University , Beijing, China
Classical Simulation of Non-Clifford Noise Channels
Talk at Join Mathematical Meeting, Seattle, WA, USA
Modeling Trust Based Markets
Talk at 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdamn, Netherlands
Service & Skills
- Leadership: Founder & VP USC INFORMS, Viterbi Graduate Senator, INFORMS Subdivision Council Member
- Organizations: INFORMS, SIAM, EAAMO
- Reviewer: ICML, NeurIPS, Cognitive Science Society
Technologies: Python, C++, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Julia, SQL
- Languages: English (Native), Arabic (Fluent)
- Python: (NumPy, SciPy, PyTorch, CVXPY, Dask, CUDA)
- Optimization: Convex, Stochastic, Mixed-Integer, MPC
- Machine Learning: DRL, NLP, Clustering, Topic Modeling
- Mathematical Modeling: MFG, Control Theory, PDEs
- Quantum Computing: Clifford simulation, noise modeling
- Communication: Public speaking, curriculum development
Awards and Honors
- 2026 AI-Score: Was selected to participate in Columbia & University of Illinois Urbana Champaign’s fully funded School of Artificial Intelligence School for Computer Science and Operations Research Education.
- 2026 National Science Foundation Operations Research & Artificial Intelligence Fellow: 200k fellowship which supports PhD students working at the intersection of OR and AI.
- 2025 Capital One Fellow in AI & Finance: 100k award which recognizes outstanding achievement in the fields of artificial intelligence and finance.
- 2024 Anneberg Fellow at USC: This prestigious fellowship is awarded to top graduate students at the University of Southern California.
- 2024 IPAM REU Recipient: Accepted as a Researcher to IPAM’s REU program at UCLA. Aceptence rate is 3%.
- 2024,2023 American Mock Trial Association All-American (Top 0.5%): This award recognizes an individual’s exceptional performance and skill in a national mock trial competition.
- 2023 American Mock Trial Association National Champion: This honor is awarded to the top team in the U.S of 700 universities.
- 2022 UCI Hackathon Best AI Application: This award is given for work in NLP news media bias detection. Developed app with open sourced auto-encoder BERT.
- 2022,2021 American Mock Trial Association 2nd & 3rd Place (National)
- 2021 Accenture Case Competition 2nd Place: Was awarded for proposing business solution for healthcare startups.
- 2019 California State Legislature Certificate of Recognition: Was awarded for research project into sports diplomacy programs.
- 2019 SoCalGas Energy Award: Was awarded for research into acid rain resistent material coatings.
- 2018 ASU Walton Sustainability Award: Was awarded for research into developing carbon sequestering concrete.
- 2018 PECG James E. Roberts Award: Was awarded for research into developing carbon sequestering concrete.