About
Main bio
Short version: I'm a junior at FAU High, I dual-enroll at Florida Atlantic, and most of my free time goes to research. It started with a science-fair app, turned into robots, and lately has wandered into fruit flies and quantum circuits. None of it is finished, and this page isn't either.
The thread running through all of it is a pair of questions. How do we make AI safe enough that people can rely on it, especially in medicine? And what can the brain teach us about the things AI is still bad at? I don't have answers yet. I'm collecting better questions, mostly by sitting next to people who know more than I do.
Right now that means building a robot that rides elevators in Dr. Wei's lab, writing up a quantum approach to ultrasound brain imaging, and waiting on approvals for an ALS study in flies. I'd rather own the whole stack, from wiring to models, than ship a polished demo.
it's me
how I got here
It started with an eye exam
In 8th grade at A.D. Henderson I built a phone app that screens for diabetic retinopathy. It took first at the Florida state middle school science fair, and the AP wrote about it. Mostly it taught me that a few hundred lines of code can catch something people miss, and I haven't stopped building since.
where it began.
the why.
Then came the paperwork
My dad is a physician, and I watched him stay up late fighting prior-authorization forms. That became AuthAI, and it pulled me into pitch competitions and a lot of conversations with doctors. It also showed me where I care most about AI: places where a wrong answer actually hurts someone.
Cold emails, then a lab
I cold-emailed labs at FAU until one said yes. Dr. Wei took me into his, the first high schooler he'd admitted, and handed me a project a PhD student couldn't get working on hardware. A lot of 10 pm nights later, the robot opens doors and calls elevators on its own.
first lab!
rejection is data.
Still a work in progress
My first paper got rejected, and I left it on the site because a portfolio of only wins doesn't teach anyone anything. These days I'm splitting time between robots, neuroscience, quantum, and The Ethics Lab. Ask me again in a year and this page will say something different.
how I got here
Timeline
MPCR, FAU
AI Research Lead & MPCR Fellow. I study robot policies—VLA models, reinforcement learning, and embodied AI in simulation—and the tooling that makes them trustworthy enough to deploy in the real world. First author on GAIN, an interactive navigation system I'm preparing for IEEE ICRA 2027.
Sep 2025 - Current
The Ethics Lab
Co-Founder. Program design, partnerships, and strategic direction. A student-led nonprofit making AI education free and classroom-ready, and teaching students to use AI without outsourcing their thinking to it.
Nov 2025 - Current
LVNG.AI
AI Engineer. Shipped applied machine-learning and computer-vision systems end to end—data, models, and the infrastructure around them. ML pipelines, recommendation engines, predictive forecasting and NLP systems in production — Python, PyTorch, AWS and GCP.
Aug 2025 - Jan 2026
Canvas Prime
Digital Health Investment Research Analyst Intern. Researched digital-health companies and markets, evaluating technology and clinical evidence to support investment decisions.
Apr 2025 - Sep 2025