Writing

AI Safety & Policy

Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative Application  ·  April 2026

Selected Essays: Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative

I'm most concerned that many people will be harmed very soon, and particularly that we won't know why. Since politics and government dictate public life, solving said harm would require palatable translations of technical and sociological knowledge by experts for institutional changemakers to act on.
URC-Sciences Summer Program Application  ·  March 2026

Algorithmic Monocultures in LLM Political Framing

Large Language Models are rapidly becoming a primary epistemic bottleneck in public consumption of information, with audiences ranging from median voters to world military, political, and strategic leaders. They heavily mediate access to sociopolitical issues, acting as a biased single point of failure for democratic discourse. Although progress has been made in auditing bias on explicit demographic features, algorithms provably fail to output high-fidelity representations of their source material, specifically when tasked to summarise a news article on a politically contentious topic.
Supervised Program for Alignment Research Application  ·  January 2026

Selected Essays: Supervised Program for Alignment Research

Yes, I would include a liability cap, but it would be both conditional and strictly tiered. Like the Price-Anderson Act, I would have a tier of mandatory private insurance for operation as well as a second tier of industry-pooled insurance; the boundary between these for each deployer would be defined as the maximum amount of private insurance the market can supply for that deployment class. Contributions beyond that to the second tier would also be scaled based on factors like compute used, deployment scale, autonomy level, and past incident history.
ACM AI AI Scholars Fellowship Application  ·  December 2025

MLP Bipedal Walker: PPO Training Writeup

Prior to this project, I had been a fellow for the fall technical track with AI Safety @ UCLA, where I was introduced to how RL works intuitively and mathematically and given sample exercises to practice implementation. Beyond this, I had neither learned about nor coded any deep learning or other RL models. I spent a total of 10 hours on this project, broken up over several days.

History & Culture

RESEARCH PRACTICE 98T  ·  UCLA  ·  May 2026

Leonie Biney's Formation of Black Feminine Totality via Dream-Like, Otherworldly Futures

Leonie Biney is a British artist of Ghanaian, Nigerian, Sierra Leonean, and Jordanian ancestry. As a singer-songwriter who works largely independently, her music blends bedroom pop, dream pop, indie, and alt-pop; her music videos also incorporate whimsical and fantastical aesthetics. For this video essay, I focus specifically on Leonie Biney's 2025 single, "Groupie," later also released in the When You Turn Around EP in 2026.
Asian American Studies M179  ·  UCLA  ·  March 2026

Japan's Restrictive Multi-Tiered Immigration Regime

Immigration regimes are broadly the set of policies and institutions that a nation-state uses to govern, regulate, control, and otherwise influence the flows of migrants within its jurisdiction. Despite the Western hypothesis that immigration regimes become more liberal, relaxed, and convergent to policies of open globalisation as their governments democratise, Asian countries' political maturations juxtapose their intricate and restrictive immigration regimes. Various countries in Asia utilise complex visa hierarchies and systems of legal status to dictate whether, where, when, and for how long a migrant will be in the country.
Asian American Studies M179  ·  UCLA  ·  March 2026

Intra-Asian Migration and the Limits of the Asian Community

Now more than ever, people are migrating between countries at an exponentially increasing rate. In Asia, the world's largest continent by land area as well as population, the mobility of persons and groups is shaped by government policies, formal and informal institutions at high, meso, and lower levels, and localised cultural, social, and psychological processes. People migrate not just from countries in the Global South to the Global North, but between those in the South and even vice versa; historical diaspora communities are shifting in their collective organisation and influence.
AP World History: Modern  ·  Barrington High School  ·  April 2025

The Great Leap Forward and the Inherence of Famine to Socialism

The moment in Chinese history inclusively spanning 1959 and 1961 CE is known to locals as the "three years of disaster." Following the Communist Party's victory in the Chinese Civil War and ensuing establishment of the People's Republic, Chairman Mao Zedong spearheaded a number of radical political, economic, and social campaigns aiming to transform China into an advanced society. His infamous 1958 attempt at rapid mass industrialization, dubbed the Great Leap Forward, brought about one of the worst famines in human history.
Senior Project Paper  ·  Barrington High School  ·  December 2024

The Semantic Space Between: The Timeless Symbolism of American Chinese Cuisine

Chinese food is a staple of many an American dining-out experience today. Whether it's Michelin star-rated bistros or all-you-can-eat hot pot, Panda Express styrofoam giants or local family-owned buffets, the scope of Chinese cookery is often taken for granted in its integrity to the American ethnic-cuisine landscape. This has not always been the case, however; the notion of the "typical Chinese restaurant" encompasses a rich and storied past of discrimination, sacrifice, and the endless perseverance of people towards a better life.

Linguistics

Linguistics 1  ·  UCLA  ·  December 2025

The Grammar and Lexicon of the English Speech of Oddly Specific Crystal

This paper will discuss the unique features of the English speech of YouTuber Oddly Specific Crystal, whose full name could not be found after reasonable research. My linguistic background includes several languages, primarily Standard American English and Mandarin Chinese. Although I grew up in Rhode Island and around some number of Rhode Island English speakers, my parents were learners of Standard American English, and thus raised me in a bilingual household of both that dialect and their native Standard Mandarin.
Linguistics 1  ·  UCLA  ·  November 2025

Hong Kongese and Internet Influences in the English Speech of Oddly Specific Crystal

This paper will discuss the unique features of the English speech of YouTuber Oddly Specific Crystal, whose full name could not be found after reasonable research. My linguistic background includes several languages, primarily Standard American English and Mandarin Chinese. Although I grew up in Rhode Island and around some Rhode Island English speakers, my parents were learners of Standard American English, and thus raised me in a bilingual household of both that dialect and their native Standard Mandarin.