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Ph.D. Intern, Machine Learning

Meta Platforms

Developed LLM-based music and creator recommendation systems for content creation.

• Built pipelines for semantic tokenization, supervised fine-tuning, preference optimization, and online evaluation.
• Designed Atomic Creator Tokens for creator recommendation.

Ph.D. Data Science Intern, AI Foundation

Capital One

Investigated graph representation learning using data from approximately two million customers to predict shared accounts and support customer modeling and fraud-risk analysis.

Machine Learning Intern

Metagenomi

Developed preprocessing, feature engineering, and ML/deep-learning models for CRISPR nuclease indel profiles and gene-editing outcomes using internal screening data.

Review Editor

Frontiers in Microbiology — Microbiome Data Science

Appointed to the section editorial board to review manuscripts in computational, statistical, and informatics approaches to microbiome research.

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

University of California, Davis

Microbial food safety, bioinformatics, and machine learning

• Advisor: Luxin Wang

Master of Science (MS)

University of California, Davis

Computer Science

• ECS 271 Advanced Machine Learning (A+)
• ECS 174 Computer Vision (A)
• ECS 289 G Advanced Deep Learning (A+)
• ECS 289 L Advanced Artificial Intelligence (A+)
• ECS 230 Applied Linear Algebra (A)

Master of Arts (MA)

Columbia University

Biotechnology

Bachelor’s degree

University of California, Davis

Food Science and Technology

• Reviewer Appreciation Award – Issued by Journal of Medical Imaging (JMI) / SPIE (Feb 2026)
• Walter Jennings Graduate Student Fellowship (Jan 2026)

• Margrit Mondavi Student Support Fellowship (Mar 2025)

• Peter J. Shields and Henry A. Jastro Research Award – Issued by UC Davis, College of Agriculture and Environmental Science (Oct 2024)
• Fresh Express Incorporated Graduate Student Support Fund – Issued by UC Davis, Food Science and Technology Department (Mar 2024)
• LUGG Graduate Student Award – Issued by UC Davis, Food Science and Technology Department (Mar 2024)

• NCIFT Graduate Student Competition 1st Place Winner – Issued by NCIFT (Apr 2023)
• Fresh Express Incorporated Graduate Student Support Fund – Issued by UC Davis, Food Science and Technology Department (Mar 2023)
• LUGG Graduate Student Award – Issued by UC Davis, Food Science and Technology Department (Mar 2023)

• Peter J. Shields and Henry A. Jastro Research Award – Issued by UC Davis, College of Agriculture and Environmental Science (Sep 2022)
• Fresh Express Incorporated Graduate Student Support Fund – Issued by UC Davis, Food Science and Technology Department (Mar 2022)
• James and Marilyn Lugg Graduate Student Award – Issued by UC Davis, Food Science and Technology Department (Mar 2022)
• Victor Chu Endowment – Issued by UC Davis, Food Science and Technology Department (Mar 2022)

• Peter J. Shields and Henry A. Jastro Research Award – Issued by UC Davis, College of Agriculture and Environmental Science (Aug 2021)
• Bor Luh Scholarship – Issued by UC Davis, Food Science and Technology Department (Mar 2021)
• George Stewart Memorial Award – Issued by UC Davis, Food Science and Technology Department (Mar 2021)

• Doctoral Student Departmental Fellowship – Issued by UC Davis Food Science Graduate Group (Mar 2020)
• Departmental Master Student Scholarship – Issued by Columbia University (Aug 2019)
• 3rd Place of CAFPNA Student Presentation Competition – Issued by Chinese Association of Food Protection in North America (Jul 2019)
• Departmental Citation for Outstanding Performance – Issued by UC Davis Food Science and Technology Department (Jun 2019)

• Frontiers in Microbiology (Reviewer)
• Journal of Food Science (Reviewer)
• ACM Computing Surveys (Reviewer)
• ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (Reviewer)
• ICLR Workshop on Foundation Models for Science (FM4Science) (Reviewer; six completed reviews)
• Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) (Reviewer)
• KDD AI4Science (Reviewer)
• ACM CAIS AgentSkills Workshop (Reviewer)

• NeurIPS workshops: Imagenomics and AI4DS (Reviewer)
• ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare (Reviewer)
• Journal of Medical Imaging (Reviewer)
• IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (Reviewer)
• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (Reviewer)
• IEEE Data Descriptions (Reviewer)
• IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (Reviewer)
• Frontiers in Microbiology (Reviewer)
• Frontiers in Marine Science (Reviewer)

• ICLR-associated reviewing

• IFT FIRST Technical Research Paper (Reviewer)

• KDD 5th Workshop on Ethical Artificial Intelligence (Reviewer)
• KDD 5th Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning and Quantification in Decision Making (Reviewer)
• IEEE Cloud Summit (Reviewer)
• International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (Reviewer)