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Builder. Researcher. Student Board Trustee.

Emerald High School · Dublin, CA · Class of 2027

Building Emerald Echo, a course tool for EHS
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Leadership & Impact

Jun 2025 – present

Student Board Trustee

Dublin Unified School District

One of the few student voices in the room when the district actually makes policy. I represent 13,000 students across DUSD, and it's not a ceremonial seat. I'm in the budget discussions, the curriculum decisions, and the parts where the administration has to answer for things.

Sep 2025 – present

VP of Chapter Management, President's Council

DECA Inc.

Appointed to the national DECA President's Council. I run chapter management for Emerald High's chapter, which covers how it's structured, its membership, and our strategy for competitions.

Aug 2025 – present

Founder & President, CS Club

Emerald High School

I started the school's CS club from nothing. I built the program, recruited the members, and run it. The whole point is building real projects instead of only prepping for competitions.

Jun 2025 – present

Youth Advisory Committee Member

City of Dublin, CA

I advise the City of Dublin on issues that affect young residents. The point is to connect city government with the students who actually live with its decisions.

Aug 2024 – Jun 2025

Chapter President

DECA at Emerald High

Led the EHS DECA chapter through its competitive season. I ran operations, coached members for DECA competitions, and grew how many people took part.

Aug 2024 – Aug 2025

Lead High School Intern, Mayoral Campaign

Dublin Mayor Student Internship

Lead high school intern on the winning mayoral campaign. I worked directly on public policy, outreach strategy, and talking with constituents. It was the real work, not getting coffee.

Aug 2023 – Jun 2025

TUPE Peer Educator

Tobacco Use Prevention Education

Peer educator for tobacco prevention at EHS. Two years of showing up, talking to students honestly, and trying to make public health actually feel relevant to them.

Field Notes

Present tense
May 2026

Finishing the Emerald Echo semester simulator. Got the Claude API working, now I'm debugging some edge cases in how it calculates load in the schedule modeler.

May 2026

Submitted the PSWI paper for conference consideration. Now I'm writing up the policy proposal as its own short brief so it makes sense in a DUSD board context.

Apr 2026

Drift: the scraper is running on a GitHub Actions cron and Resend is hooked up. First digest actually went out.

Mar 2026

Published Thirsty Compute Atlas to GitHub. Open pipeline, numbers you can reproduce, full sensitivity analysis. Anyone can re-run the whole thing.

Jan 2026

Started the CNN/Alzheimer's research. Reading through the existing models and working through the imaging datasets. Still early.

Let's talk.

I'm open to research collaborations, policy conversations, and projects that bring tech and public policy together. If anything here caught your attention, just reach out.

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