Research, Work & Leadership

Boston University Security Lab (SeclaBU), RISE

Designed and built VibeAuthBench, a benchmark that asks AI coding agents to add Google Sign-In to real open-source apps, then measures whether it works and what it broke. Working sign-in in 5 of 30 runs; 163 of 172 security findings came from the new code. Poster accepted at IEEE ACSAC 2026.

San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego

Building AI agents that help researchers run supercomputer operations (loading environment modules, writing job scripts) and measuring what giving those agents more system privileges costs and buys.

San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego (REHS)

Benchmarked rule-based, custom NER and LLM-based detection of personally identifiable information across 1,400+ annotated supercomputer support tickets, so future AI support tools can learn from old tickets without leaking anyone's data.

COSMOS, UC Santa Cruz

Tested an LLM-based drone safety decision-maker against 200 weather scenarios under FAA Part 107 rules and found 75% decision inconsistency, in moderate weather rather than bad weather.

CyberAegis

President of a student-run cybersecurity training program for 100+ middle and high school students across 3 schools. I build the training environments and run live red-team attacks against the students I teach.

Poway Unified School District — Open Coding Society

Paid internship leading infrastructure for a district-wide ed-tech platform — a full DNS migration with zero certificate downtime, cloud dev environments for students without computers, and a 5-person engineering team supporting 200+ students.

MITRE Embedded Capture the Flag (eCTF)

Founded and lead an independent team in MITRE's national embedded-security CTF: firmware in C on an ARM Cortex-M4, built under strict cryptographic and timing limits, then attacked by every other team. 2nd in the high school division and top 30 overall in our first year.

Del Norte iGEM

Software VP and wiki developer for Del Norte's synthetic-biology team, which won a 2025 iGEM Gold Medal as the only high school in San Diego to earn Gold. Continuing in the role for the 2026 season.

CyberCEO (Cyber Community Education Outreach)

A student-led nonprofit teaching digital and cyber safety to the people most exposed to scams. I line up the workshops, and I've helped teach 1,600+ elementary students and 50+ senior citizens across San Diego.

Open Coding Society AI Initiative

Co-founded an AI, AI-safety and AI-security project track inside Del Norte's CS program: 50 students in 8 mentored teams with 12+ industry mentors, funded by grants I write.

CyberPatriot training

Paid CyberPatriot training for two middle schoolers over a summer. They went on to place 3rd in the Middle School Division semifinals.

Del Norte High School

One of 20 students chosen from a class of about 620 for Del Norte's student-ambassador program. We visit elementary and middle schools to talk about character, academics and staying substance-free.

Del Norte Speech & Debate; Oak Valley Middle School

Competed in parliamentary debate for three years (2 bronze medals at league tournaments) and coached Oak Valley Middle School's debaters.

DECA

Business and marketing competitions outside the tech lane: Top 8 in California twice in Marketing Team Decision Making, and SoCal champion in the Marketing Communication Series.

Russian School of Mathematics; Math Olympiad volunteer

Paid math tutor and former class assistant at the Russian School of Mathematics, plus a weekly volunteer Math Olympiad tutor at a nearby elementary school.

Del Norte CS Tutoring Club

Founded a peer-tutoring club when teacher turnover left Del Norte's CS classes struggling, ran office-hours and lunch sessions with the CS teacher, and closed it once students and the teacher were back on their feet.