I received a PhD degree from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) department at UC Berkeley, advised by Sanjit Seshia and Alberto Sangionvanni-Vincentelli. I received a Bachelor of Sciences degree (Major: ECE, Minor: Mathematics) from Duke University, where I was advised by Miroslav Pajic and Guillermo Sapiro.
Education
Selected as a Rising Star by National Science Foundation (NSF) Cyber Physical Systems Workshop.
Led the primary writing of a multi-institutional proposal with UCSF, UC Irvine, and UC Berkeley on precision health that was awarded $1M.
Received the UC Berkeley’s EECS departmental award (Sevin Rosen Funds Award) for Innovative Research.
Nominated for Best Paper Award for My Research on Sim-to-Real Validation from International Conference on Cyber Physical Systems.
I am a recipient of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety (CSCRS) Fellowship.
I am a recipient of the NSF Graduate Fellowship.
Fellowships & Awards
I enjoy and appreciate industrial collaborations as they often shine insights to practical and challenging problems. Through UC Berkeley’s industry affiliate programs, I have annually wrote and submitted research proposals and, gratefully, received fundings to collaborate with various industries.
Through Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Commons Program, I collaborated with and was funded by Google (in 2021-2022, published AAAI 2022) and Meta (2023-2025, a paper submitted, pending review).
Through Berkeley Deep Drive Industrial Consortium of Autonomous Vehicles, I was funded from 2019 through 2021 (published ICCPS 2022, Machine Learning Journal 2022).
Beyond UC Berkeley’s industrial programs,
With Intel, I worked on integrating Scenic to CARLA simulator as its official scenario modeling language in 2020.
With LG Electronics and American Automobile Associations (AAA), published ITSC 2020.
Industrial Collaborations
Microsoft Research Internship, advised by Siddartha Sen and Shuvendu Lahiri in the summer of 2021.
AMES NASA Research Center, advised by Divya Gopinath and Corina Pasareanu in the summer of 2019.
Research Internships
Painting by Elizabeth Polgreen
I had the privilege of serving in the South Korea’s Air Force for two years. To me, military service was like a MBA program where I learned to manage people in practice through trials and errors. I served as a barrack leader of the Logistics Command Center, in charge of 30 soldiers. I was honorably discharged as a sergeant. This experience was hugely helpful as I supervised multiple undergraduate and graduate students during my PhD and postdoc at Berkeley.
