• Born and raised in Taiwan🧋
• In my 1st year M.S. pursing a B.S./M.S. degree in Computer Science at Georgia Tech 🐝
• Building Socratic Mind, an AI-powered scalable oral assessment platform for learners in the era of AI
• Doing AI + Education Technology research at with Prof. Thad Starner
• Did AI system research at SAIL: Systems for Artificial Intelligence Lab @ GT

🗣 Talk to me about

• Yourself! Life, dreams, reality … I’d love to get to know you 😃
• What makes you happy, what makes you sad, what keeps you up at night 🌙
• Any idea, vision, or project that you’re passionate about 🔥
• AI, EdTech, AR/VR, Web3, Climate/Sustainability, Space exploration, the future of work and education

🎉 Fun facts

• I don’t like cheese 🧀
• I dropped out from my college (See “My journey to Computer Science” below)
• I got robbed in SF Hayes Valley at 10:04 a.m. on a Wednesday when I was about to board a bus to work. The robbers took away my work laptop. And I tried chasing the robbers and lost one of my shoes on my way
• I used to be a huge K-Pop fan. I covered a K-Pop dance (The Day We Broke Up by ZE:A) in front of 100+ people when I was in high school. I also like BTS and Black Pink a lot 🕺

😌 Other interests:

• Badminton 🏸
• Minecraft
• Reading 📚
• Anime (favorite: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime and Sword Art Online), YouTube, Netflix, movies. I’m a Star Trek fan.

My journey to Computer Science

My academic journey is anything but conventional. As a freshman at National Taiwan University (NTU), I excelled in my Chemical Engineering studies. However, I felt a disconnect between my natural aptitude for engineering and my passions for Computer Science. It was the magnetic pull of software and computing that truly kindled my intellectual curiosity.

Heeding this internal calling, I made a decisive move. I chose to drop out from NTU and ventured halfway across the world to the U.S. (And fortunately my parents are very open-minded and didn’t beat me up for dropping out of college.) This decision led me to spend a year and a half honing my CS fundamental skills at De Anza College before transferring to Georgia Tech.

Software Engineering

I have experience across all levels of Software Development, from low-level C/C++ programming to Golang/Docker/Kubernetes/AWS infrastructure to fullstack development with Node.js, React/Next.js, Tailwind CSS, tRPC to AI/ML with Pytorch, Pandas to Web3 smart contract and zero-knowledge proof.

However, I’m gradually shifting my focus towards AI/ML and infrastructure development.