Building
// live productsJoinALab
● liveResearch and internship matching for university students. It collects faculty directories, campus research programs, NSF REU sites and internship lists, ranks each opportunity against a student's profile, and explains the fit. 145K+ opportunities across 115 universities, refreshed by scheduled jobs.
Illini Market
● liveA bilingual second-hand marketplace and community board for UIUC and Champaign-Urbana. I develop and operate it.
Open Reality
co-founderPhone video to AI-queryable 3D scenes, with MCP tools for Claude, Codex and Cursor.
Research
// papers & platformsRunner-up, Track 1 (Stereo)
NTIRE 2026 challenge on high-resolution depth from specular and transparent surfaces, with a UIUC team.
SC-Atlas
A superconductivity research platform. I worked on data preparation, testing, method reproduction and algorithm refinement.
Hydrogen-based irrigation in agriculture
Two peer-reviewed papers in Postharvest Biology and Technology (2023) and Horticulture, Environment, and Biotechnology (2024).
Full list on Google Scholar.
Experience
// work & communityAI Agent Intern, R.R. Donnelley
Owned 3 purchase-order parsers end to end and compared 6 OCR engines for the extraction system; built a bilingual GenAI training curriculum for Asia staff; reviewed company-wide AI use cases.
UIUC campus co-lead, Tripo
Running Tripo Club at UIUC.
Vice President, CAACI
Chinese American Association of Central Illinois. Led its successful 2026 Nonprofit Capacity Building Grant application to CFECI, and support its website and technology.
A communication-research platform, in development and internal validation. SMA API-platform design.