Vancouver
Computational Social Science Lab
K-Scale Labs (YC24)
British Columbia Youth Developer Collective,
Hack Club Scrapyard,
arXiv preprint
demo video
code
San Francisco
UWaterloo
UBC
train across Canada
You can read my thoughts, notes, and blog in my Knowledgebase
April 13, 2025
Headed back to visit Palo Alto—learning about robotics, fundraising and reinforcement learning from designers, researchers, and engineers at K-Scale Labs! Will contract back in Canada!
March 15, 2025
My team at the British Columbia Youth Developer Collective brought together 85+ students from around British Columbia to work on cool scrappy projects—and we also broke our previous record for British Columbia's largest youth hackathon!
March 3, 2025
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 60+ satellite hackathons in cities around the world! See scrapyard.hackclub.com
February 25, 2025
Spent the week learning at an opensource humanoid robotics startup! Will contract back in Canada!
November 16, 2024
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
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
Spent the weekend building Sign Engine, a modular sign language processing API to enable real-time sign language translation, which I used to build a Chrome extension for live ASL interpretation of YouTube videos and a website that reads lips and translates into ASL
July 24, 2024
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
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
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!
January 20, 2024
Attended nwHacks—Western Canada's biggest university-level hackathon (around 800 hackers)! I built NutriSnap—a computer vision React Native application that uses your phone camera to scan UPC codes or take photos of your food to track your nutrition.
July 28, 2023
Selected for Shad at Western University—where I spent a month with 80 other students from across Canada experiencing post-secondary life through lectures, workshops, and a month-long design project.
February 25, 2023
Placed 6th individually at Math Challengers @ UBC, a math competition for high school students across British Columbia! Also placed 3rd as a team—qualifying for team provincials.