Curriculum Vitae
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Ph.D. in Neuroscience
Sept 2025 – PresentUC San Diego · Talmo Pereira Lab, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Focus: Computational Neuroscience, Neuromechanical Modeling, Deep RL
Funding: NIH BRAIN U01 (1U01NS136507)
M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering — AI
Sept 2023 – Mar 2025UC San Diego
Thesis: VNL-Ray: Biomechanically Realistic Virtual Rodent Behavior and Task Learning via Deep RL
B.S. in Data Science & Cognitive Science
Sept 2019 – Mar 2023UC San Diego · GPA: 3.94/4 · Magna Cum Laude · Provost's Honor
Technical Skills
Programming: Python, JAX, JavaScript, R, MATLAB, Java, SQL, LaTeX
ML/RL: TensorFlow, PyTorch, Stable-Baselines3, Brax
Simulation: MuJoCo, MuJoCo-MJX, STAC-MJX
Infrastructure: Ray, GPU/TPU computing, Docker, Git
Data: NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Scikit-learn
Teaching
Teaching Assistant — UC San Diego
- COGS 188 — Reinforcement Learning (Sp24)
- COGS 118B — Unsupervised Machine Learning (Wi23)
- COGS 118A — Supervised Machine Learning (Sp23, Wi23, Sp22)
- COGS 108 — Data Science in Practice (Fa24, Fa23, Sp23, Wi22)
- DSC 30 — Data Structures & Algorithms (Wi22, Fa21, Su21, Sp21)
- COGS 18 — Introduction to Python (Wi21)
- DSC 10 — Principles of Data Science (Su21)
Honors & Awards
Magna Cum Laude
Mar 2023UC Scholars
Summer Research Scholarship
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