Experience

Experience

OpenAI
2 mos

Codex Developer

Jan 2026 – Present · San Francisco, CA · Remote
  • Supporting the developer ecosystem through technical demos, workshops, and community onboarding.
Institute for Advanced Study
3 mos

USS Researcher

Jun 2026 – Aug 2026 · Princeton, NJ · On-site
  • International research program spanning undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral participants.
  • Studied 4-dimensional knottedness via fundamental groups of complements, using Wirtinger-style presentations and explicit handle and move calculus to track generators and relations.
Pi Mu Epsilon
4 mos

Co-Founder & President

Jan 2026 – Present · New York, NY · On-site
  • Developed, coordinated, and facilitated the founding of a national chapter at Columbia.
  • Sustained, developed, and implemented a fully automated application system based upon theoretical frameworks.
Jane Street
8 mos

Quantitative Researcher

May 2026 – Aug 2026 · New York, NY · On-site
  • Designed and evaluated systematic trading signals using statistical modeling and rigorous backtesting.

Campus Ambassador

Dec 2025 – Present · New York, NY · On-site
  • Coordinate logistics for speaker events, problem sessions, and student meetups with campus org partners.
  • Support student pipeline programs, including Academy of Mathematics and Programming (AMP), by helping recruit and refer incoming student TAs.

FOCUS Fellow

Apr 2025 – May 2025 · New York, NY · On-site
  • Participated in a selective program focused on market-making, probability, and quantitative problem solving.
  • Worked through hands-on case studies and estimation challenges with mentorship from traders and researchers.
Columbia University
1 yr 6 mo

Undergraduate Researcher (Individual Research)

Dec 2025 – Jan 2026 · New York, NY · On-site
  • Studied doubly connected planar domains via conformal normalization of annuli \(A(r,R)\), isolating modulus as the quantitative invariant governing intrinsic geometry and mapping behavior.
  • Wrote an 82-page LaTeX paper with original simulated results (GitHub) and received sponsorship for an ICM talk and Columbia summer housing by Jane Street Capital.

Undergraduate Researcher (Individual Research)

May 2025 – Sep 2025 · New York, NY · On-site
  • Developed a framework for finite-state Markov chains via explicit coupling constructions, translating geometric contraction into quantitative total-variation mixing-time bounds.
  • Tracked how local transitions propagate through state-space geometry to isolate bottlenecks invisible to edge-based arguments and clarify when path coupling succeeds or fails.
  • Prepared talks for AMS JMM and IMU ICM audiences and wrote a 4-page LaTeX paper with original C/C++/Python Monte Carlo simulations (GitHub).

Teaching Assistant (MATH UN3007)

Jan 2026 – Present · New York, NY · On-site
  • Hosted weekly two-hour tutorials covering lecture material for 64 students.
  • Taught core topics including Cauchy–Riemann equations and holomorphicity, contour integration and Cauchy’s theorem and formula, conformal mappings and modulus, and analytic continuation.

Teaching Assistant (MATH UN2005)

Sep 2025 – Dec 2025 · New York, NY · On-site
  • Led weekly recitations and held weekly office hours for 52 students.
  • Created practice problems and study materials to build proof-writing fluency.
Columbia Economics Society
4 mos

Business Representative

Sep 2025 – Present · New York, NY · On-site
  • Led sponsorship outreach with Jane Street and pushed for CES to be a main campus contact point for hosting firm events.
  • Served on the executive board of Columbia’s largest and oldest pre-professional student group.
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