May 2025 – Aug 2025 · 3 mos · New York, United States · On-site

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Durham, North Carolina, United States · On-site

• Interpretable Machine Learning Lab

Sep 2024 – May 2025 · 8 mos

Sep 2024 – May 2025 · 8 mos

Aug 2024 – May 2025 · 9 mos · Durham, North Carolina, United States

Jun 2023 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr

• Assisted Prof. Javier Birchenall on the demographic movement and survival rate of missionaries in the New World.
• Transcribed historical texts of 10,000+ missionaries, employing Python-based data cleaning techniques to curate a comprehensive dataset comprising more than 80,000 entries.
• Completed summary and explanation for a 900-page book on the responsibilities and activities of Catholic missionaries in the 18th century.
• Developed and analyzed 10+ visualizations using R and Python.
• Employed linear and logarithmic regression models to assess and interpret the survival rates of missionaries, uncovering Economic trends and patterns.
• Conducted log-rank tests to statistically compare survival distributions of different locations.
• Analyzed causes of these differences based on the works of Protestant and Catholic missionaries.

Jun 2023 – Sep 2023 · 3 mos

• Supported and enhanced the educational, research, and public service mission of UC Santa Barbara by providing customer service 24/7 for over 150,000 guest nights.
• Checked in over 22,000 guests from over 40 different countries, ages ranging from middle school students to adult professionals and experts in cryptology.
• Responded to daily guest requests, assisted with late-night lockouts, and engaged in administrative tasks such as organizing documents and accounting.
• Earned 4 “Suns” from advisors for exceptional individual work

Mar 2023 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos · Santa Barbara, California, United States · On-site

• Participated in 5+ conferences and chaired the Housing Crisis Committee in SBIMUN 2023.
• Wrote 40-page background guides on causes and potential solutions for the California housing crisis as well as the UN economic and social council.
• Hosted weekly training sessions as an exec member.
• managed over 30,000 dollars of team funds and allocated spending on 6 different conferences across the US.

Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr

• Investigated the impact of Sri Lanka’s economic crisis on its health sector with World Bank associate Di Dong.
• Collected and analyzed over 2,000 data points from 2010 onwards, focusing on economic indicators from Sri Lanka’s neighboring countries.
• Employed advanced statistical techniques such as Time Series Analysis to assess public health indicators.
• Developed 20+ data visualizations in Stata to elucidate the causes and effects of Sri Lanka’s
• economic crisis.
• Utilized Vector Error-Correction models to analyze long-term relationships between public health
• expenditure, budget gaps, disease burdens, inflation rates for food and medicine, and public health indicators.
• Completed a 10-page report, pending publication on the World Bank blog.

Sep 2022 – Jun 2023 · 9 mos · Santa Barbara, California, United States · On-site

• Hosted 10+ community activities including movie nights, Earth Day, t-shirt workshops, etc.; accumulated 1000+ sign-ins for these activities.
• Planned, wrote, and distributed weekly Hall Council meeting agendas and minutes.
• Managed the Hall Council Budget sheet: updating, signing off, and reimbursing over 6000 dollars of spending from the residential fund.

Jun 2021 – Aug 2021 · 2 mos · Hong Kong SAR · On-site

• Worked in the Exchange Center and composed daily reports regarding the Chinese Offshore USD Bond market.
• Completed 3 presentations on Shadow Banking, Fixed-income Markets, and Financial Derivatives.
• Collected and processed over 10,000 data points using Bloomberg Terminal, providing forecasts and trend analyses that informed traders' decision-making processes, improved trade execution, and enhanced trading efficiency by 10%.