Work & Experience

Research, leadership, and professional experience in machine learning, computer vision, and spatial computing.

Current Roles

Machine Learning Researcher (Incoming)

Research
MicrosoftRedmond, WA

Researching machine learning and computer vision techniques for MRI imaging, advised by Dr. Olesya Melnichenko.

PythonPyTorchComputer VisionMedical Imaging
June 2026

Machine Learning Researcher

Research
Stanford AI Laboratory (PI - Fei-Fei Li & Ehsan Adeli)Stanford, CA

Engineered a video-language pipeline to automatically monitor ICU patient behavior from continuous footage, enabling real-time health assessment of 2,656 critically ill patients without manual intervention.

PythonPyTorchVideo-Language ModelsComputer Vision
January 2026 - Present

Machine Learning Researcher

Research
Stanford Human Perception Lab (PI - Khizer Khaderi)Palo Alto, CA

Built a single model that predicts user actions from unlabeled video across 9 distinct environments, achieving 85.2% accuracy and enabling zero-shot action understanding without labeled training data.

PythonPyTorchWorld ModelsInverse DynamicsOptical Flow
January 2026 - Present

Leadership

Vice President of External Affairs

Leadership
Stanford XRStanford, CA

Leading strategic partnerships and external relations for Stanford's premier Extended Reality organization. Co-led launch of partnerships with Meta, NVIDIA, Amazon, and Snapchat. Organized immersive technology hackathons engaging 300+ participants in XR and Spatial Computing projects.

Key Achievements:

  • Secured partnerships with Meta, NVIDIA, Amazon, and Snapchat
  • Organized hackathons with 300+ participants in XR and Spatial Computing
  • Led external affairs strategy for Stanford's largest XR organization
September 2024 - Present

Past Experience

Lead Machine Learning Researcher

Research
Stanford AI Laboratory (PI - Ron Fedkiw)Stanford, CA

Drove development of CNN models to generate realistic 3D hair reconstructions across demographics, boosting accuracy to 96% and enabling deployment on lightweight devices. Built a highly robust extraction algorithm with OpenCV and SAM segmentation, capable of handling poor-quality images and achieving perfect segmentation on 98% of images.

PythonPyTorchOpenCVSegment Anything (SAM)3D ReconstructionCNNs
March 2025 - December 2025

Software Engineer

Research
Stanford Human Perception LabPalo Alto, CA

Engineered an AR application on Snap Spectacles in collaboration with the Snapchat Prototyping Team, enabling analysis of 92% of the available field of vision. Created a process to transform video into accurate 3D environments by integrating SLAM and point-cloud segmentation models, thereby optimizing output by 44%.

Snap Lens StudioJavaScriptSLAMPoint-Cloud Segmentation3D Environment Reconstruction
December 2024 - June 2025