I am a junior at the University of Washington, studying computer science.
While I love all things CS, I have a particular hobby-like interest in Artificial Intelligence, especially in NLP and RL.
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Currently, I am a SWE intern at Panopto. Previously I was an intern at Arine and Two Sigma. I will be returning full-time to Two Sigma next fall!
Take a look at some of the things I've worked on over the years! ⬇️
Projects.
These are some things I've worked on, either because a neat idea caught my attention or I had a problem I wanted to solve.
Growing MNIST digits with neural cellular automata
Generating fractals with complex "neural networks"
Blog post
GradeBook, an intuitive grade viewer
otp_, a commandline one-time password interface
poly, an 8bit multiplayer platformer (WIP!)
Wells, an illustration of various gradient descent methods
Models.
These are implementations of papers I found especially cool.
Neural Turing Machines [Graves et al.,2014]
Recurrent Models of Visual Attention [Mnih et al.,2014]
Deep Recurrent Attentive Writer [Gregor et al.,2015]
Deep Q Networks [Mnih et al.,2013]
Sketch-RNN [Ha & Eck,2017]
Film Photography.
I think film is such an interesting medium! Hoping to someday incorporate Polaroid and medium format.
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Preface
These photos are not supposed to be "good" in any traditional sense, or even in any non-traditional sense. They're mostly an experiment for myself to explore older methods of photography, as well as be more hands on (literally!) and cautious about the photos I take.
Roll 3: ???-???, Tri-X 400
This was actually one of the first rolls I ever took, but for some reason never developed until recently.
I think I was mostly messing around with this roll, since I was just testing out the camera at the time, but I still managed to get a few decent photos out of it.
Unknown, Canon A-1 @ 50mm
Seattle Suburb (+ birbs!), Canon A-1 @ 50mm
My car, Canon A-1 @ 50mm
Roll 2: Feb 2021 - Mar 2021, Portra 400
This roll was actually taken before Roll 1, but was developed later. I've decided just now to order the rolls by their development date.
This was a fun roll because we had a few snow days this year and I was able to capture some of those moments with the film camera. In addition, this roll features a lot of varied photos from around the Seattle/Bellevue area.
These photos don't have the best scan quality. I'll probably come back in a few days and rescan them.
Seattle Center, Canon A-1 @ 50mm
Space Needle, Canon A-1 @ 50mm
Space Needle, Canon A-1 @ 50mm
Pacific Science Center, Canon A-1 @ 50mm
Alweg Monorail, Canon A-1 @ 50mm
Meadow Wood Park (self-timer, I'm a bit blurry), Canon A-1 @ 50mm
Meadow Wood Park, Canon A-1 @ 50mm
Roll 1: Mar - Jul 2021, Portra 400
I was really excited to use color film, and it was a ton of fun seeing the photos after they were developed.
I also didn't self-develop this roll, because I was worried about messing up the chemistry since color film is generally trickier to get right.
In fact, I was so worried about ruining the film that I scanned them with the protective cover still on (shoutout to Omega Photo in Bellevue!), and you can see the lip of the cover on the photos! I thought it gave them a more personal, sentimental look to it so I decided not to edit them out.
UW, Canon A-1 @ 50mm
UW Red Square + Faint Mt. Rainier, Canon A-1 @ 50mm
UW, Canon A-1 @ 50mm
UW Quad, Canon A-1 @ 50mm
UW Quad, Canon A-1 @ 50mm
Pike Place, Canon A-1 @ 50mm
Mount Si, Canon A-1 @ 50mm
Rattlesnake Ridge, Canon A-1 @ 50mm
Rattlesnake Ridge, Canon A-1 @ 50mm
UW Red Square, Canon A-1 @ 50mm
Seattle Boat Launch, Canon A-1 @ 50mm
UW Willow Hall, Canon A-1 @ 50mm
UW Willow Hall, Canon A-1 @ 50mm
UW, Canon A-1 @ 50mm