About Me

Work and Studies

School

• Attend the University of British Columbia
• Planned Double Major in Mathematics and Linguistics (2019 Bsc)
• Mathematics goals are nebulous this early on, but definitely heading towards pure math
• Interested in researching formal semantics and computational linguistics
• Admitted as a computer scientist and still study it regularly, though it’s no longer my focus
• Alumni of The American School in Japan

Job History

• Spent summer as lab assistant at UC Davis Food Science and Technology Department
• Worked under Jean-Xavier Guinard mainly helping to do consumer reformulations
• In this same period, assisted in a Sensory Evaluation of Olive Oil course, though mainly in setup and cleanup
• Tutored students for several years in highschool, mainly for preparation of Advanced Placement tests.

Personal

• Grew up primarily in Tokyo, with brief stays in Hanoi and Detroit
• Enjoy chess, Settlers of Catan, and top-down strategy games
• Love problem solving with programming, and hope to use it in my field