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After some time as a TA, I’ve found teaching and explaining to be invaluable to my own learning process. Truthfully, these notes are more to complete my own understanding of many robotics and statistics concepts – as much of it I am self learning. Who knows though, maybe these will be useful to someone! That said, here’s some more about me.

Academics

At the end of my freshman third quarter, I applied to the Computer Science Major mostly on a whim. I was coming from an Informatics major and my understanding of CS was limited to the few Intro to Java courses I had taken as prerequisites. To be frank, I think I applied 30% due to wanting a more technical math-y perspective and 70% because the people I enjoyed working with were either applying or already in the program.

As a junior now, I feel that I’ve developed a love and hate relationship with CS. I get the most intellectual satisfaction from doing hard problems. Consequentially, I always seek out the next ‘harder’ thing which has put me in a very fun and interesting but perpetual cycle of struggle.

I started as a TA after the intro to programming sequence. I found my way of comprehension to be a bit strange and thought it could be of use to other students. In my sophomore year, I grew really fond of algorithms, theory, and statistics. That, has lent itself to my current interests in probabilistic robotics and learning.

Interests

When I’m not tackling my backlog of infinite papers to read, I’m really trying to live life outdoors with friends and family. I’ve played soccer all my life (football) and recently have been getting into the PNW sports – climbing, long distance running, hiking, etc. I had a two-ish year of volleyball, but I’m afraid that is most definitely not what I was put on Earth to do. Sometimes I go to the gym.

When I’m too tired, I’ve been trying to learn to play guitar and not sound like I’m dying while singing (shoutout my GOATS Dijon, Mk.gee, and Yorushika). My New Year’s resolution is to explore more live music; Watching local bands, jazz clubs, going to rager concerts, really anything.