Third year at the Iovine and Young Academy (<40 students/year) on scholarship.\
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Researched [AI](https://theinvivogroup.com/) (under Alexander Titus), design (under Yihyun Lim), and [crypto](https://x.com/blockchainatusc) (under Blockchain@SC). Consulted for organizations such as [The Steve Jobs Archive](https://stevejobsarchive.com/), [Thales](https://www.thalesgroup.com/), and [Arup](https://www.arup.com/). Contributed to various student startup communities, particularly [sundays@usc](http://sundays.rsvp) and Min Family Challenge.

Presented my abstract "A Context-Aware Approach to Dynamic File Organization" at ShowCAIS 2024, held at the University of Southern California.

"A Context-Aware Approach to Dynamic File Organization"

BUIDLing Among the Chaos: What Devs Discussed at ETHDenver

School moves imperial Japanese flag after student's protest draws almost 10,000 supporters online

New York's Best (Fake) Steak House Opens Up

How NYC’s fine-dining elite got pranked by Gen Zer’s fake steakhouse — complete with milk servers, ‘celebs,’ and wedding proposal

elfDAO, the Crowdfunding Campaign to Buy Gifts for Kids

Why we invested in Mainstream, crypto-native token gating

Made-up New York restaurant goes from internet joke to one-night-only reality

Worked with Google's moonshot factory to build a novel Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) solution aiding paralyzed patients with rehabilitation.

Kinisi

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.

Water Quality Sensing Solution

Pager

A modular, end-to-end decentralized governance platform.

Interested in working for us? Reach out at team@mainstream.so.

A little bit of everything

The first iOS-native open source Ethereum wallet that gave birth to [@walletconnect](https://x.com/walletconnect), [@uniswap](https://x.com/uniswap) & [@rainbowdotme](https://x.com/rainbowdotme).

Dropped out of high school to work on Balance. Learned a lot about design & Svelte. Also ran a biotech project on the side.

Balance

A crypto-to-charity donation escrow service. Left after a few months to start Mainstream Labs.

Endaoment

Delivered research & suggestions to increase female Syrian refugees’ participation in the Jordanian digital economy.

Femployed

The world's longest hackathon on land, on a train across America, alongside people like [Tom Preston-Werner](https://tom.preston-werner.com/) (founder, GitHub).

The Hacker Zephyr

A series of live co-working sessions every Sunday to bring together 200+ creatives to work on whatever that isn't school.

sundays@usc

Raised $50k from anonymous internet users to run the world's first decentralized toy drive.

elfDAO

Started a $500k internet experiment to alleviate financial barriers for thousands of students to attend blockchain conferences. Supported by [Vitalik Buterin](https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin), [Ameen Soleimani](https://twitter.com/ameensol), and 3,000+ others.

PadawanDAO

A ML-powered patient triage algorithm designed for speed, accessibility & reliability. Submitted to [HackSC X](https://x.hacksc.com/).

Triagify

A 66-person internet prank to create New York's Best (Fake) Steakhouse. Featured on the [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/25/dining/nyc-best-fake-steakhouse.html), [New York Post](https://nypost.com/2023/09/25/nycs-fine-dining-elite-pranked-by-gen-zers-fake-steakhouse/), [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/26/mehrans-steak-house-new-york-opening), [abc7NY](https://abc7ny.com/mehran-steak-house-nyc-fake-restaurant/13831392/), and more.

Mehran's Steak House

Participated in weekend-long IRL rabbit-hole-athons for technologists: an intimate retreat/hackathon dedicated to reading, thinking deeply about a topic, and sharing your learnings with others.

Rabbitholeathon

Organized Hack For The People, the Northeast's largest high school hackathon, gathering 1,000+ participants and $20k+ in prizes.

Director of Operations

Volunteered for various causes, including: [Social Diversity for Children](https://socialdiversity.org/), [Prosper Vancouver](https://www.prospervancouver.org/), [Canadian High School Model United Nations](https://cahsmun.org/), [Telegram Foundation](http://telegram.org), & more.

750+ member reach from 70+ countries, strategic partnership with 15+ organizations, with $50k+ in funding support

Executive Director

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](https://scholar.harvard.edu/cvt/home)’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](https://scholar.harvard.edu/policython/home) at the Harvard Institute of Politics. We hosted 3,000+ participants, published 700+ policy brief submissions, and more.

Executive Board, Design

Product Engineer

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.

Byeongjun Moon*