About
19. Designer and creative technologist in Los Angeles.
High school dropout, one of the youngest U.S. "Alien of extraordinary ability" designation.
For collaborations, please reach out via email.
Contact
Projects
A modular, end-to-end decentralized governance platform.
Interested in working for us? Reach out at team@mainstream.so.
A crypto-to-charity donation escrow service. Left after a few months to start Mainstream Labs.
The first iOS-native open source Ethereum wallet that gave birth to @walletconnect, @uniswap & @rainbowdotme.
Dropped out of high school to work on Balance. Learned a lot about design & Svelte. Also ran a biotech project on the side.
Worked with Google's moonshot factory to build a novel Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) solution aiding paralyzed patients with rehabilitation.
Built a machine learning-powered water quality sensing solution impacting 27k+ residents in Flint, MI and 12k+ residents in Newark, NY. at Jaden Smith's nonprofit.
Side Projects
A series of live co-working sessions every Sunday to bring together 200+ creatives to work on whatever that isn't school.
A 66-person internet prank to create New York's Best (Fake) Steakhouse. Featured on the New York Times, New York Post, The Guardian, abc7NY, and more.
Started a $500k internet experiment to alleviate financial barriers for thousands of students to attend blockchain conferences. Supported by Vitalik Buterin, Ameen Soleimani, and 3,000+ others.
The world's longest hackathon on land, on a train across America, alongside people like Tom Preston-Werner (founder, GitHub).
Exhibitions
Presented my abstract "A Context-Aware Approach to Dynamic File Organization" at ShowCAIS 2024, held at the University of Southern California.
Work Experience
Raised $1.1m from world-class investors to reimagine the ways people interact with crypto.
Backed by Lemniscap, Samsung NEXT, Larry Sukernik (Reverie), Linda Xie (Scalar Capital), Daryl Xu (Coinbase), & more.
Volunteering
I helped lead a community of 10k+ students at the Harvard Innovation Lab, hosting panels for educational discussions and public policy writing to initiating startup incubators and data science research projects related to the coronavirus.
I led the Coronavirus Visualization Team’s Design team, where we coordinated 350k+ articles of PPEs donated during the pandemic.
I also led a series of policy-writing events called Policy for the People at the Harvard Institute of Politics. We hosted 3,000+ participants, published 700+ policy brief submissions, and more.
Volunteered for various causes, including: Social Diversity for Children, Prosper Vancouver, Canadian High School Model United Nations, Telegram Foundation, & more.
Education
Third year at the Iovine and Young Academy (<40 students/year) on scholarship.
Researched AI (under Alexander Titus), design (under Yihyun Lim), and crypto (under Blockchain@SC). Consulted for organizations such as The Steve Jobs Archive, Thales, and Arup. Contributed to various student startup communities, particularly sundays@usc and Min Family Challenge.