ByteDance / TikTok
Jun – Aug 2026
Research Scientist Intern · San Jose, USA
Worked on machine learning systems for efficient large language model training.
Research & engineering
I’m a master’s student in Data Science at Harvard, working on reinforcement learning, language models, and the systems that make them more efficient.
Most recently, I worked on LLM training and infrastructure at ByteDance / TikTok.
Jun – Aug 2026
Research Scientist Intern · San Jose, USA
Worked on machine learning systems for efficient large language model training.
Sep 2024 – Aug 2025
Machine Learning Engineer Intern · Toronto, Canada
Led development of the transformer-based AI Reviewer and its evaluation and data pipelines. Achieved 88% accuracy within ±1.0 IELTS band and 97% within ±1.5 bands. The work led to a pending U.S. patent on human-aligned LLM review.
Jan – Apr 2024
Quantitative Developer Intern · Toronto, Canada
Rewrote the core factor model algorithm, reducing scheduled inference time by 90% and saving 500 compute hours weekly. Updated daily economic factors for more than 20,000 public securities.
Jan – Apr 2023
Data Scientist Intern · Toronto, Canada
Built financial data infrastructure, market analysis tools, and forecasting models for a multi-family office.
Jan – Apr 2022
Android Software Engineer Intern · Ottawa, Canada
Developed and maintained Android software for the epoc Blood Analysis System.
May – Aug 2021
Product Manager Intern · Beijing, China
Worked on product development and releases for Crossword Quest and Wordsearch.
Automatically synthesized test cases for reward modeling and reinforcement learning that improve code generation.
Instruction tuning for reasoning across multiple images, including comparison, co-reference, and temporal understanding.
Comparing keywords, topic models, and LLM embeddings across 135K+ financial news articles to measure how text representation changes the market-relevant information we recover.
Open source
A Tinker-compatible API server built on verl. Run fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and distillation on your own GPU infrastructure.
Apartment search
An apartment search platform that helps renters find verified listings, compare their options, and decide where to live.
Visit HopIn2025 – 2026 (expected)
Master of Science in Data Science
Expected December 2026 · GPA 3.96 / 4.0
2020 – 2025
Bachelor of Computer Science · Artificial Intelligence
Dean’s Honours List every term
2020 – 2025
Bachelor of Business Administration · Finance
Alumni Gold Medalist · Double degree with Waterloo