About me

Hudson River Trading

I worked on high-frequency trading of futures, Treasuries, and crypto.

Asana

I interned during the summer of 2015, then worked remotely part-time throughout my senior year of college. I started full-time in July 2016 on the mobile API team. Some of my work was documented publicly:

Duke

I graduated from Duke University in May 2016 with a double major in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Computer Science, and a minor in Economics.

  • Programming
    • For our course on databases, my friends and I wrote a relational algebra interpreter (demo, code).
    • For my course on computational geometry, I studied RRT-ANNs, a word I made up to refer to RRTs (rapidly-exploring random trees) that use an approximate nearest-neighbor subroutine in place of exact nearest-neighbor search. I visualized their behavior and wrote some (probably wrong) proofs.
    • For my course on robotics, my friends and I wrote a robotic arm controller for the Amazon Picking Challenge. You can see a video of it in action, as well as the code.
    • For the same course on robotics, I wrote a controller for a simulated robot arm (video, code, writeup).
    • For our course on compilers, my friends and I implemented a Tiger compiler in SML as we worked through Andrew Appel’s book.
  • Cell biology
    • I worked with Dr. Sharyn Endow to study motor proteins in Drosophila.
    • We published “The kinesin-13 KLP10A motor regulates oocyte spindle length and affects EB1 binding without altering microtubule growth rates” in Biology Open (2014).
    • I gave an informal talk about some classical genetic work that I did in fruit flies.
  • Misc
    • I noticed that some powerlifting state records were unexpectedly low and was able to set new ones in the USAPL GA Teen (18-19), 123 lb class. My lifts were 259 lb squat, 159.8 lb bench press, and 270.1 lb deadlift.