CS @ USC | Incoming SWE Intern @ NVIDIA | Published Researcher | 3x Hackathon Winner
Sophomore studying Computer Science at USC Viterbi. Incoming Software Engineering Intern at NVIDIA building agentic AI. Published researcher at ICWSM 2025. Selected for selective quant discovery programs such as Jane Street FOCUS.
First-generation Mexican-American from Azusa, California. I learned engineering before I ever wrote code — right here in my dad's shop. At 15, the COVID-19 pandemic hit and I worked alongside him to support our family.
Out the door before 6 AM, back home after 7 PM — full days in the shop while doing school virtually. That's where I learned what real work looks like.
I also bench 225 now. and still play soccer...
Award-winning agentic AI platform for cost segregation. Multi-agent vision pipeline (Grounding DINO → SAM2 → GPT) with IRS-grounded RAG system. 2 paying customers from top-5 firms.
Won LavaLab Demo Night F'25 (Best Traction)
Quantitative fantasy sports analytics. Poisson modeling, 100k-run Monte Carlo simulation, GARCH(1,1) volatility forecasting, and cross-platform arbitrage engine.
78% win rate — turned $10 into $3,000
Agentic procurement co-pilot built at Caltech's HackTech. Event-driven LangChain agent with intent classification and multi-step reasoning. Invited by Dryft to SF Neo offices for post-hackathon collaboration.
1st Place Dryft Challenge @ Caltech HackTech
| Company | Role | Highlight |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA | Incoming SWE Intern | Building Agentic AI — Summer 2026 |
| Amazon x USC | Research Intern | LLM Safety research (Jan 2026 – Present) |
| Jane Street | Undergraduate Fellow | FOCUS '25 (1 of 14) · UNBOXED '24 (1 of 37) |
| USC ISI | Research Intern | Published EDTok at ICWSM 2025 · Image coordination detection |
| D.E. Shaw | Connect Fellow | 3-day fellowship at NYC office |
| Two Sigma | New Seekers Summit | Selected participant (Feb 2025) |
| SIG | Discovery Day | First-year program (Feb 2025) |
| LavaLab | Software Developer | USC's premier startup incubator — Demo Night Winner |
| QuantSC | Software Developer | USC's premier quant club |
| TroyLabs | Software Developer | USC's premier startup accelerator |
| FIRST Robotics | Lead Developer | Regional Semifinalist — Top 5 of 32 teams |
| SkillsUSA | Team Leader | State Bronze — 3rd best engineering project in CA |
EDTok: A Multimodal Eating Disorder TikTok Dataset Accepted to ICWSM 2025 arXiv:2505.02250
LLM-assisted pipeline for building the first multimodal eating disorder dataset from TikTok content.
11 Hackathons. 3 Wins. Coast to Coast.
| Event | School | Result |
|---|---|---|
| MITHacks | MIT | Completed |
| 🏆 HackTech 2025 | Caltech | Winner — 1st Place Dryft Challenge |
| TreeHacks | Stanford | Completed |
| MIT iQuHACK | MIT | Completed |
| HackPrinceton | Princeton | Completed |
| 🏆 HackHarvard 2024 | Harvard | Winner — Best Use of Terraform |
| YHacks | Yale | Completed |
| PennApps XXV | UPenn | Completed |
| UC Berkeley AI Hackathon | UC Berkeley | Completed |
| 🏆 AstroHacks | — | Winner — Gold Medalist |
Languages
AI/ML
Web
Backend & Cloud
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