things I built to answer a question
School
UC Davis
University of California
Majors
DS & Econ
Data Science · Managerial Economics
Graduating
Jun 2027
Looking for a Summer 2027 internship
ONGOING · 2026 · THIS SITE
The site you're reading. I designed the type and color system myself, built each section as its own page, and tuned the motion to switch off for anyone who prefers reduced motion.
Next.js 15 · React 19 · Framer Motion
ONGOING · 2026 · LIVE TOOL
A goals model for the 2026 World Cup, fit on 200 real matches from that year. For every knockout tie it prices six markets, simulates the bracket all the way to a champion, and then grades its own call once the game is played.
Python · Poisson / Dixon-Coles · Kelly Criterion
IN PROGRESS · 2026
Most expected-goals models treat a shot as a flat point on the pitch. I'm building one that keeps the height of the ball, the body part that struck it, and where the defenders actually stood, then checks whether that extra detail predicts goals any better.
Python · PyTorch · Soccer Analytics
COMPLETED · STA 160 · RETURNS 2026-27
A bootstrap regression that predicts how many passes a Liverpool player completes in a match. I tested it two ways: against four real betting lines, and against the end of a season it had never seen. It picks back up over the full 2026-27 season.
Bootstrap Resampling · R · Market Efficiency
COMPLETED · ECS 165A · 5-PERSON TEAM
A five-person academic team build of L-Store, the lineage-based storage architecture from Prof. Mohammad Sadoghi's research: columnar base and tail pages, B+ tree indexing, a buffer pool, a full query layer, and two-phase-locking concurrency control, built from scratch over a 10-week quarter.
Python · B+ Tree · Buffer Pool
COMPLETED · JUN 2025 · COLLABORATIVE
Five of us studied how crime rates track home prices across Connecticut towns. Each additional burglary in a town lined up with roughly a $1,300 drop in property value.
Data Analysis · Regression · R