About Me
Hello! I'm an MLH Fellow passionate about merging tech, visuals, and music. Check out my artist / musician website .
Tech Projects
Demo of portfolio with AI image generator page
Showing a portfolio site built with React, Typescript featuring a custom AI image generator (uses ComfyUI as backend) and iterates off another open source project. Special thanks to SaladTechnologies
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Demo of offline, local AI Chatbot
I architected an experimental offline/local AI branch feature (backend), drove the project's cache-aside strategy, and orchestrated its OS-agnostic ETL pipeline for dynamically seeding the PostgreSQL database.
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Production Engineering Fellow
MLH & Meta
Summer 2026
Building and deploying a Flask web app with a team.
Software Engineer (backend)
Aon (enterprise client), partnership with Codesmith Advanced Residency
March 2026
Architected an offline-first AI chatbot for enterprise client within 2 weeks, running Ollama inside Docker with 2 preloaded models. Drove end-to-end architectural strategy for 5-person team, researching unfamiliar technologies, assessing timeline feasibility against capacity, and de-scoping low-impact features, achieving a hundred percent on-time completion and exceeding client success criteria.
Review Committee member (music academia)
Mathematics and Computation Music Committee
February 2026
Reviewed academic papers for international conference exploring theoretical, cognitive, and computational aspects of music-mathematical thinking, contributing to research at intersection of music and computation
Guest Speaker on Integrating Creative Tech (AI) with Music
New England Conservatory of Music
November 2025
Discussed creative works using generative AI (Automatic1111/Stable Diffusion, Blender, Da Vinci Resolve, Apple Motion) to music students, bridging the gap between traditional conservatory training and emerging creative technologies
Guest Presenter on AI Creative Tech at Klavierfest symposium
Bowdoin College
November 2024
Delivered live demos of locally-installed open-source AI tools (ComfyUI, Audiocraft Plus), discussing privacy-preserving AI adoption and protecting creative work.
Creative Technologist (Animation Commission)
ROCO Chamber Orchestra
February 2023 - September 2023
Created generative AI visuals for 'Tectonal' (September 2023) using automatic1111 / Stable Diffusion, Deforum, Blender, and Da Vinci Resolve, integrating multiple creative technologies into unified performance, achieving a hundred percent deliverables before the deadline
Music Composer & Creative Technologist (Commission)
ROCO Chamber Orchestra
February 2020 - September 2022
Pioneered animated musical score, a virtually nonexistent genre, with Blender's Python API, based on ROCO Chamber Orchestra commission, composing original music and synchronizing with custom animation, merging traditional composition with visual technology, expanding audience engagement and demonstrating innovation at medium's edge.
Board Member
League of Composers, International Society of Contemporary Music
2013 - 2023
Participated in programming meetings, selecting contemporary works for performance. Contributed to fundraising.
Commissioned Composer
Various: iSING! Festival (with Philadelphia Orchestra and Suzhou Symphony in China), New Voices (with San Francisco Symphony, New World Symphony, Boosey & Hawkes), Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, musica viva / Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (Germany).
2005 - 2023
Selected to compose music for various music organizations
Education
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
PhD
2016
Enhanced Chancellor's Fellow. Dissertation: The Fourth Movement of György Ligeti's Piano Concerto: Investigating the Musical-Mathematical Connection
The Juilliard School
BM & MM
2000 - 2005
Accelerated 5-year BM-MM program. Exchange program with Columbia University