CV

GPA: 3.95
Activities: Affiliated Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (ASES) Bootcamp (30 from 500+ applicants), ChemE Car, Freshman Service Liaison (1 elected from 107 dorm members)

GPA: 4.1/4.3 (unweighted)
Leadership: Math Society Co-President; Entrepreneurship Club Co-Founder & Co-President; Huishuo English Tutoring Club Co-President; Head Tutor, Quantitative & Science Resource Center; Model UN Conference Secretariat; Student Council Representative; Resident Assistant; Varsity Golf

• Developing a wet-spun, muscle-like two-way shape-memory polymer fiber that performs up to 27,000x better than the next best comparable technology; joined through a funded Stanford Materials Science REU and stayed on as a researcher
• Integrated eutectic gallium-indium (EGaIn) liquid metal into the shape-memory polymer to build a conductive, actuating fiber composite
• Characterized energy density and mechanical, shape-memory, and electrical properties using DMA, DSC, SEM, X-ray CT, Instron tensile testing, two-point Keithley probe measurements, and optical microscopy
• Currently improving the consistency of the fibers’ electrical properties and exploring applications

• Awarded ~$4,000 through BIOME at Stanford to develop mycelium (cheap, scalable, and sustainable to grow) as a platform material for replicating the extracellular matrix of different tissue types
• Independently secured laboratory space, materials, and research collaborators to launch experimentation
• Genetically modifying Aspergillus oryzae as a proof of concept ahead of a systematic study of gene edit–macroscopic property relationships · Project page →

• Fabricated spin-coated thin films, co-designed and executed all experimental conditions, and led development of ML models predicting the thickness of bidisperse polystyrene films
• Led model feature analysis to draw physically meaningful conclusions about how bidispersity affects spin-coating, incorporating relevant polymer physics
• Second author on the resulting paper in MRS Communications (2026); delivered oral presentations at the Materials Research Society and American Physical Society

• Identified the active ingredient in a novel thermoreversible hydrogel for endodontic drug delivery using FTIR and Raman spectroscopy; processed and visualized all spectral data
• Led antibacterial testing through viability assays on Enterococcus faecalis treated with the drug-loaded hydrogel
• Presented this research in a poster presentation at the Materials Research Society

• Built a Python program for the FAIR Data Innovations Hub that checks whether publications claiming to share their code actually link to it; used in one of the team’s ongoing projects
• Troubleshot inconsistent results in a bioimpedance research setup, identified one cause of the inconsistency, and wrote a comprehensive technical report on the findings

• Proposed and ran a funded (~$1,500) project with two classmates encapsulating dexamethasone–hyaluronic acid nanocomplexes in self-assembling Fmoc-FF peptide hydrogels
• Characterized the hydrogel’s structure, chemistry, and drug release with FTIR, UV-vis, SEM (UConn Bioscience Electron Microscopy Lab), and light and fluorescence microscopy
• Demonstrated a statistically significant reduction in Farage lymphoma cell viability using Trypan blue staining and MTT assays

• Independently characterized P. nameko and L. edodes scaffolds grown on two media using SEM (porosity, morphology), FTIR (functional groups), and water vapor absorption (hydrophilicity)
• Found P. nameko suitable in morphology and chemistry as a skin-cell scaffold; named Finalist at the Connecticut Science and Engineering Fair

• Designed and tested an acoustic mosquito-repelling prototype to create a more effective, safe, and accessible repellent through backyard experiments in 2023
• Patent filing from 2020–2021 (ages 13–14); sought collaborators until 2023 (ages 14–16)
• Filed a patent application (“Devices and Methods for Dispersing Insects,” US 17/226,876)

• 1 of 3 interns on the 40-member inaugural Explorers Club Teacher Fellows expedition, designated an official Rolex Watch Expedition and an Explorers Club Flag Expedition (flag 114)
• Collected, imaged, and profiled biological samples (water with microbes, algae, larvae, insects) and catalogued the fluorescent activity of fauna across four geothermal sites to document how extreme temperatures shape biodiversity
• Produced a legal strategy brief evaluating pathways to secure formal protection of the Boiling River from the Peruvian government, advising the expedition leader on viable conservation mechanisms

• Selected for ASES Bootcamp (30 of 500+ applicants), one of Stanford’s two premier entrepreneurship programs
• Co-created decoy.now, a service that dilutes a user’s digital footprint with plausible but fake alternate identities
• Learned to fundraise, research, build, iterate, and scale directly from partners and founders of VC funds including 1517, Index, and Neo, as well as ASES alumni founders

• Conducted a technical and techno-economic review of the emerging green polymer landscape, with emphasis on furan-based platform chemicals and bio-derived monomer pathways
• Developed an investment thesis on the green polymer market to provide insight on startups in the space

• Mentored seven elementary schoolers at John F. Kennedy School through a ten-week research project, introducing experimental design, hypothesis testing, and iterative development

• Tutored students in China in English and led the Loomis Chaffee chapter

• Tutored elementary, middle, and high school students three afternoons a week, starting at age 14