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Data Science PhD Intern

Capital One

Working with the AI Foundation Customer Core team on Graph Representation Learning across multiple modalities of customer data to predict and identify targeted prospective users and prevent potential fraud suspects.

• Investigated graph embedding methods (Cube, Node2Vec, Graph Autoencoder, Variational Graph Autoencoder) to predict future shared accounts among 2M customers, achieving 73% boost of AUC score

Machine Learning Intern

Metagenomi

Conducted data preprocessing and feature engineering using highly noisy and high-dimensional data from in-house PostgreSQL database. Assisted in development of ML and deep learning models for CRISPR nuclease indel and gene editing outcome prediction.

• Improved predictive model accuracy; helped reduce operational cost by approximately 40%
• Random Forest Regressor achieving 88.0% cosine similarity for indel profile prediction
• CNN, LSTM achieving 99.5% accuracy for gene editing outcome prediction

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)

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

University of California, Davis

FST-Applied Environmental Microbiology

Master of Arts (MA)

Columbia University

Biotechnology

• 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)

• KDD AI4Science Workshop (Reviewer)
• International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) FM4Science (Reviewer)

• Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) (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)

• International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) (Reviewer)

• IFT FIRST Technical Research Paper (Reviewer)