Welcome!

I’m a junior at MIT majoring in Electrical Engineering with Computing (6-5) with plans to double major in Mathematics (18). My interests are varied and continue to expand, but mostly revolve around computer systems and the infrastructure needed to make them more efficient and resilient. With the AI boom going wild, I guess that means LLMs and GPUs are on the table :)

The last couple of years have moved me from compilers to distributed systems and back. I spent most of last year as an undergraduate researcher in MIT’s COMMIT group, trying to make sparse tensor computation faster. Then came a 7-month stint as a platform engineer at Systalyze screaming at distributed system bugs and experiencing the broken world of performance measurement. This fall and spring, I am back at MIT CSAIL researching accurate LLM workload profiling with Saman Amarasinghe, Manya Ghobadi, and Jeremy Carin. It is my hope that I will better understand whether a systems PhD is right for me after this experience.

Certain times of the year get dominated by a new deranged project and my unstoppable obsession with completing it. Most recently I got a statically linked Python running ~13% faster than the stock interpreter — something upstream explicitly doesn’t support — with public benchmarks to back it up. Before that I built Mimux, a Linux distribution bootstrapped from scratch and named after my late cat, then turned the lessons into my 2-week IAP course, 6.S913, where students built their own functional Linux from scratch.

During my high school years, I was an olympiad participant hacking computers and developing web apps on the side when my parents weren’t watching :) In 2023, I placed 23rd overall in the USAMO and attended MOP, where I met many of the friends with whom I have been attending MIT. Some side projects I had been developing for the math contest community then unexpectedly turned into a first job at MathDash during my senior year of high school.

Before all that (back to middle school!), I was a hardcore épée fencing main with a dream to represent the US at the Cadet World Championships; in late 2019, I reached first in my age group in the US. Alas, the COVID-19 pandemic hit, all competitions and training came to a halt, and I found better and more fun things to do with that time.