Received Best Paper Award at ICER 2025; 2025 Doctoral Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Computer Science and Engineering Department at UC San Diego.
Research Experience
Instructor-of-record for the “Working with Large Code Bases” course, co-created with Gerald; taught the introductory computer science course for first-time programmers.
Education
PhD Candidate - University of California, San Diego, Advisors: Gerald Soosairaj, Leo Porter, Bill Griswold; Field: Computing Education.
Background
PhD Candidate at UC San Diego studying computing education. Research interests include program comprehension, AI-assisted programming, and code quality, encompassing computing education, empirical software engineering, and human-computer interaction (HCI).
Miscellany
Loves to surf in his free time, even took a UCSD course to shape his own, custom surfboard.