Transnode AI
San Diego, CA
Jul 2026 – Present
CTO & Co-Founder — AuthenlyUSA
- Shipping full-stack features on AuthenlyUSA, Transnode’s AI credential & identity verification product for hiring and compliance workflows.
- Built admin review tooling: rejection notes, secondary staff review, document sorting/filters, and expiry-reminder flows used in live verification operations.
- Improved candidate subscription & billing UX — cancel-at-period-end, expiry reset, pricing/CTA consistency — across React/TypeScript surfaces on a production SaaS codebase.
Agent Arena
Cambridge, MA · AI Agent Simulator
Mar 2026 – Present
Member of Technical Staff
- Translated product needs into an LLM-powered multi-agent simulation system with Python & FastAPI; work supported acquisition of real paid startup customers.
- Integrated MinIO (S3-compatible) object storage for scalable multi-file user workflows across simulation sessions.
- Diagnosed long-context LLM blocking failures and implemented timeout/recovery logic, cutting worst-case pipeline blocking by 96.7% (300s → 10s).
UC San Diego
Wang Lab · Robotics Research
Sep 2025 – Present
Research — Dexterous Hand & Teleoperation
- Built a neural optimization pipeline (PyTorch + NVIDIA Warp) using forward kinematics and human finger-motion data to explore low-cost dexterous hand designs for manipulation and teleop.
- Closed the Sim2Real gap with SDF-based collision metrics; cut inter-finger collision cases in the physical 3D-printed prototype by 50%.
- Assembled a Gello-based teleoperation platform (YAM arm, Dynamixel actuators) and upstreamed CAD/spec fixes via open-source PR.
Organization
UC San Diego
AdventureX 2025
Hangzhou, China · Advx25 Hackathon
Jul 2025 – Aug 2025
Hardware–Software Lead — AI Earphone Prototype (Lumen)
- Built a vision-enabled AI earphone prototype in three days: ESP32 camera, Bluetooth, speaker output, mobile triggering, and LLM connectivity.
- Led end-to-end hardware–software integration (ring wake-up, capture, BLE chunked transfer, phone-side processing) and refined product scenarios with investors and mentors.
Event
AdventureX 2025
Baidu
Beijing, China
Apr 2024 – Jun 2024
LLM Agent Engineering / Testing Intern
- Built evaluation workflows and result-checking logic for an LLM spreadsheet-processing agent — reliability, format consistency, downstream compatibility.
- Scaled multi-threaded Python evaluation pipelines and structured test datasets to accelerate R&D decisions.
Organization
Baidu
AIR, Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
2020 – 2024
Research Assistant — Perception & 3D Learning
- Designed an LLM-based active-perception policy with memory for indoor object localization (~3× efficiency vs. strongest baseline SPL).
- Co-developed SNAKE (NeurIPS 2022 Spotlight): shape-aware self-supervised 3D keypoint fields with up to 85% repeatability.
- Built IEEE CYBER 2024 Best Poster interactive grasping pipeline (ROS + RGB-D + point clouds) for crowded shelf retrieval.