I’m currently a fourth-year undergraduate, and a transfer student at the University of California, Los Angeles, with plans to graduate in 2026. My major is pure mathematics. Prior to this, I was an undergraduate at the University of California, San Diego from 2022 to 2024. And before that, I was a student at Irvington High School, in Fremont, California.

Beyond mathematics, I’m interested in political science (particularly in the areas of electoral systems, judicial politics, the politics of protest, American politics (with an emphasis on state and local), and the politics of multiculturalism), as well as philosophy (with political and applied ethics, epistemology, philosophy of law, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language being of particular appeal). But in general, I find almost all areas of empirical political science to be fascinating and worth a read, and most areas of philosophy, too.

Some works I deeply appreciate are the books of Edith Wharton, Jane Austen, and Virginia Woolf; the poetry of W. H. Auden; The Sandman, by Neil Gaiman; and Bill Watterson’s soaring, beautiful Calvin and Hobbes (this last one having been foundational to my experience growing up in Michigan; it will forever command my deepest sense of wonder and awe).

In the future, I’ll be studying mathematics as a graduate student, and ideally (if everything goes as planned, a sequence of events for which I have no high expectations at this point), a research professor of mathematics. Alternately, if academia proves too inhospitable a clime, my hope is to go into teaching, preferably mathematics at the high school level (but as advanced as possible).

When I’m not in Los Angeles or San Diego, I’m usually at home in Fremont; you can probably find me around Pacific Commons or on Mission Peak much of the time, or playing board games with friends.