Resume
Education
Indiana University Bloomington
08/2025 – present
PhD in Informatics
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
08/2021 – 12/2022
Master of Computer Science
The Ohio State University
08/2017 – 08/2020
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Engineering
Research Experience
Graduate Research Assistant, Building a Mind Lab
08/2025 – present
Developing ChickVR, a digital twin platform enabling the parallel controlled rearing of biological chicks and artificial agents to independently manipulate learning machinery and training data.
Demonstrated that social touch (cuddling) spontaneously emerges in artificial agents trained with curiosity-driven, multisensory reinforcement learning, mirroring behaviors observed in biological twins without hardcoded social drives.
Research Intern, Deep Learning Lab, Westlake University
08/2020 – 04/2021
Spearheaded the development of an online psychological therapy platform, integrating AI-generated response recommendations for therapists to significantly enhance service efficiency.
Constructed a robust therapy dialogue dataset through the platform, facilitating future research in areas such as content safety and emotional analysis.
Employed advanced statistical models (GPT) combined with a ranker to generate response texts, refining AI-generated content quality through continuous improvement based on therapists engagement data.
Research Intern, Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University
02/2019 – 04/2019
Designed and implemented a well-visualized tool for a Humanity Entity Recognizer aimed at reducing both time and cost associated with NER annotation tasks.
Work Experience
Software Developer, AI Rudder Inc.
02/2023 – Current
Developed AI-driven voice agents at AI Rudder, automating tasks such as call transfers, scheduling, and service bookings by integrating LLMs, TTS, and ASR.
Designed a framework leveraging LLM function calling to decompose human agent SOPs into dynamic sub-prompts, enhancing the docility and trustworthiness of voice agents.
Engineered a Gin-based API, accelerating integration speed and efficiency in connecting voice agents with external tools.
Software Developer Intern, AI-Lab, ByteDance
04/2021 – 07/2021
Developed a system to ensure the continuous availability of a state-of-the-art online CV model, enabling the automated execution of test sets for corresponding models at regular intervals with integrated failure alerts.
Designed and implemented a testing pipeline that streamlines the creation of test sets for models and enables one-click deployment.
Software Developer Intern, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
06/2019 – 08/2019
Redesigned and maintained the communication center website, enhancing accessibility and team collaboration through internal web applications.
Teaching
Teaching Assistant, INFO 590: Intro to VR
Spring 2026
Indiana University Bloomington (Instructor: Prof. Samantha Wood)
Teaching Assistant, CSE 2221: Software I
Fall 2018
The Ohio State University (Instructor: Adam Grupa)