About Me

I am an incoming PhD candidate at UCLA, conducting research in cryptography with a focus on secure multiparty computation and its applications. I am advised by Prof. Rafail Ostrovsky. Additionally, I am the president and a co-founder of Theory@UCLA, a theoretical CS club. I am also a lead instructor for the Olga Radko Endowed Math Circle.

Education
  • M.A. | Applied Mathematics, 2024

    University of California, Los Angeles

  • B.S. | Mathematics of Computation, 2024

    University of California, Los Angeles

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
President & Co-Founder
Theory@UCLA
March 2023 – Present California
  • Established the first theoretical computer science student-run organization at UCLA and recruited over 40 graduate and undergraduate students
  • Organized quarterly reading groups to present topics in lattice cryptography, zero-knowledge proofs, secure computation, etc.
  • Hosted exam review sessions for Algorithms and Complexity [CS 180] and Theory of Computation [CS 181]
 
 
 
 
 
Course Reader | Theory of Computation [CS 181]
UCLA Department of Computer Science
March 2024 – June 2024 California
  • Graded weekly proof-based homeworks for theory of computation
  • Provided 150+ students with detailed individual feedback
 
 
 
 
 
Lead Instructor | Intermediate 2A
Olga Radko Endowed Math Circle
June 2023 – Present California
  • Organized and led weekly math classes for 25 middle school and high school students
  • Designed worksheets in topics including graph theory, error-correcting codes, and combinatorics
 
 
 
 
 
Course Reader | Discrete Mathematics [Math 61]
UCLA Department of Mathematics
January 2024 – April 2024 California
  • Created rubrics and graded weekly proof-based homeworks for discrete mathematics
  • Provided 80+ students with detailed individual feedback
 
 
 
 
 
Course Reader | Honors Linear Algebra [Math 115AH]
UCLA Department of Mathematics
March 2023 – June 2024 California
  • Created rubrics and graded weekly proof-based homeworks for honors linear algebra
  • Provided 200+ students with detailed individual feedback
 
 
 
 
 
Assistant Instructor | Advanced 3
Olga Radko Endowed Math Circle
December 2022 – June 2023 California
  • Assisted in teaching weekly math classes for 30 high school students
  • Worked solutions and helped students through worksheets in algebraic geometry
 
 
 
 
 
Lead Instructor | Advanced 2A
Olga Radko Endowed Math Circle
June 2022 – December 2022 California
  • Organized and led weekly math classes for 25 high school students
  • Designed worksheets in topics including special relativity and optimization
 
 
 
 
 
Lead Engineer, Trajectory Simulations | Prometheus Hybrid Rocket
Rocket Project at UCLA
December 2021 – June 2022 California
  • Programmed a 6 degree-of-freedom simulation model in MATLAB for the hybrid fuel rocket team at UCLA
  • Simulation was used to predict rocket apogee, off-the-rail-speed, and stability during ascent

Handouts

Olga Radko Endowed Math Circle Worksheets

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