Vancouver
- Working at UToronto's , where I develop the Maia Platform to enhance human-AI collaboration in chess
Computational Social Science Lab
- Organizinga global high school hackathon happening in Austin, Texas and 100+ cities around the world this winter!
Hack Club Scrapyard,
- Leading thea community of over 300 high school developers in British Columbia.
British Columbia Youth Developer Collective,
- Organized , British Columbia's biggest high school hackathon
yvrHacks
- Worked on neural sign language translation, where I developed an open-source ASL fingerspell recognition and pose production model
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Timeline
March 3, 2025
Organized Hack Club Scrapyard Flagship in Austin, TX
We raised C$200,000 and flew in 100 students from around the world to build the scrappiest projects in Austin, TX. In two weeks, on March 15-16, we're running 80+ satellite hackathons in cities around the world! See scrapyard.hackclub.com
February 25, 2025
Contracted for K-Scale Labs (YC24) in Palo Alto, CA
Spent the week building robot heads for an opensource humanoid robotics startup in Palo Alto!
November 16, 2024
Won 1st place at UBC's Ascend Business Case Competition
Worked with classmates to place 1st in the Novice Category at the Ascend Business Case Competition at UBC Sauder, competing against 150 high school students in developing an international expansion plan for Lotte Yukimi Daifuku.
September 30, 2024
Organized yvrHacks—British Columbia's biggest youth hackathon
Led the British Columbia Youth Collective to organize the biggest youth hackathon in British Columbia: 60+ students, $4000+ prizes and 500+ hours of collective hacking! See yvrhacks.ca
September 15, 2024
Attended Hack the North at the University of Waterloo!
Spent the weekend building Sign Engine, a modular sign language processing architecture to enable real-time sign language translation in various use-cases. In addition to building the modular API, I implemented the API in two client applications: a Chrome extension that adds a sign language interpreter to YouTube videos, and a web application that reads users' lips (using the Symphonic Labs API) and translates into ASL
July 24, 2024
Spent a week on a train hackathon across Canada
Spent the weekend with 50 other high school students from around the world onboard the Hack Club Boreal Express, a 7-day hackathon onboard a train across Canada! We were hit by the Jasper wildfires so we couldn't make it to Montreal, but we toured the Linus Tech Tips office and had a great time in Vancouver!
May 25, 2024
Published my work on Sign Language Processing
Gave a talk about my sign language work (An Open-Source American Sign Language Fingerspell Recognition and Semantic Pose Retrieval Interface) to my classmates at Burnaby South, as well as UBC's SLPAA research team. Presented and shared my work through my demo YouTube video, and published my preprint on Cornell University's arXiv!
February 11, 2024
Attended the Hack Club Leaders' Summit in San Francisco
Spent the weekend with 50 other high school students from around the world at the first ever Hack Club Leaders' Summit in San Francisco! Iterated on cool projects to bring back to our local program clubs, met other leaders from around the world, and discussed the future with Tom Preston-Werner, the Founder of GitHub!
