Internships & Research
Software Engineer & Research Assistant — UJIMA S&P Lab (UC San Diego)
– Present · La Jolla, CA
- Focus
- Misinformation & AI, NLP on TikTok data
- Stack
- Python, REST APIs, Pandas, PostgreSQL
- Built data pipeline to ingest/clean/merge metadata for 3,000+ TikTok videos.
- Applied topic modeling & sentiment analysis; informed research at 2 universities (ASU, Penn State).
- Presented findings via slide decks with descriptive stats & visualizations; ran Agile rituals.
Intro to C++ Teaching Assistant — De Anza College
– · Cupertino, CA
- Mentored 60+ students in office hours & pair programming; custom practice boosted exam scores ~15%.
- Created programming problem sets & study guides; reinforced OOP, design idioms, and runtime analysis.
Next steps
See detailed write-ups on the Projects page or contact me for more info.
Degree progress: