Optimization, structure, and the mathematics behind learning.
I work at the boundary of mathematical theory and machine learning - studying how iterative algorithms become differentiable architectures, and how geometry gives structure to data. UCLA Applied Math '26 · Incoming INRIA Researcher · Imperial MSc AI '27.
I'm a final-year Applied Mathematics student at UCLA, with a background in analysis, convex optimization, numerical methods, and algorithms. My core interest is understanding machine learning from the inside - not treating models as black boxes, but tracing how their behavior follows from mathematical structure.
This summer I join INRIA TITANE (Sophia Antipolis) as a research intern, working on variational mesh reconstruction from 3D point clouds using reinforcement learning and graph neural networks, supervised by Pierre Alliez.
In autumn I begin an MSc in AI at Imperial College London, where I plan to deepen work on principled model understanding - connecting optimization theory to interpretable, reliable learning systems.
Outside of research: I write suspense fiction, play souls-like games, and hold a JLPT N2 in Japanese.
My favourite director is Shunji Iwai, whose films move between tenderness and quiet devastation with an unhurried grace I find irreplaceable.
In literature I return most often to Yukio Mishima - drawn to his obsession with beauty, discipline, and the fatal coherence of an ideal.
The Hound is my current novel-in-progress - a suspense work written with classical restraint: slow-burn tension, precise prose, and psychological depth over spectacle. It is a novel about the architecture of a criminal mind, not born of passion or madness, but of cold structural logic applied to human behavior.
A physics student with no emotional affect and exceptional intelligence. The Hound follows her slow, deliberate transformation - how someone who feels nothing comes to act with total, precise intention. She does not break rules out of rage or trauma; she simply decides, with perfect clarity, that they do not apply to her, and then acts accordingly.
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones."