I am a coterminal master's student in computer science at Stanford University, expecting to complete both my undergraduate and master's degree programs by June 2009. My specialty is artificial intelligence, but I am also extremely interested in theory, math, and logic (most of my CS electives were actually math and logic courses). Ultimately, I want to understand what intelligence is and how we can algorithmically replicate it, and towards that goal, how learning is involved. (That's a big chunk of the "AI dream"!)

Apart from taking CS courses, I am involved with CS-related research and teaching. On the research side, I am working on the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Robot (STAIR) project, under the Perception/Manipulation group. For more details on that, see the research section. On the teaching side, I am a section leader for the CS 198 program, where I hold discussion sections and grade coursework for 10-15 students in one of the CS 106 courses, the introductory CS programming courses. I have section lead for each of CS 106A and CS 106B twice in the 2006-2007 academic year. I eventually decided to stop teaching in the 2007-2008 academic year to devote more time towards my CS undergraduate honors thesis on STAIR.

I was born and raised in Hong Kong prior to going over to the U.S. for undergraduate studies. I spent a very memorable 7 years in secondary school at Chinese International School. A glimpse of those good old days, along with other miscellaneous snapshots, is in the pictures section.