
Timeline
About me
AI/ML Research Intern at Adobe
Education

Uc san diego
2021 - 2025Bachelor of science - bs cognitive science w/ specialization in machine learning & neural computationActivities and Societies: Triton Fighters (Officer), Data Science Student Society, Psychology Club Minor in Data Science, Minor in Mathematics

Murrieta valley high school
2017 - 2021International baccalaureate® (ib) diploma programme (dp) high school diplomas and certificatesActivities and Societies: Virtual Enterprise, S.A.G.E. Club (President), Chess Club (Secretary)
Experience

Virtual enterprises international, inc.
Aug 2020 - May 2021Chief financial officerVirtually simulated business; class of 20 students organized in hierarchical department structure.Compete at State and National level in various competitions (oral and written).CFO of Havlu- 2nd Place National Business Plan Competition- 1st Place National QuickBooks Competition- Top 6 State Business Plan Competition- Top 10 Spring Design for Delight Competition

Uc san diego
Oct 2021 - Jun 2023Mentoring and providing resources to first-year low income minority students at UCSD - Liaison between the campus community, potential incoming SB students, current SB students, other stakeholders, etc. (through emails, social media, flyers, etc.) - Work closely with Peer Mxntors, Student Coordinators and supervisors - Create/Maintain a strong social media presence for both educational and entertainment purposes - Stay up to date on trends around social justice that centers pro-Blackness, equity, diversity, inclusion, etc.
Peer Mentor
Jul 2022 - Jun 2023Summer Bridge Intern
Oct 2021 - Jun 2022

Stanford university
Sept 2022 - nowResearch assistantCognitive Tools lab (PI: Judith Fan)Lead web development of production-ready experiments for large-scale crowdsourcing benchmarking human visual communication- Sketch generation: crowdsourced over 90K human and AI-generated sketches of 128 object categories (THINGS global dataset) via web tool and conducted comparative analysis of recognition performance by 13 computer vision models- Data visualization generation: built UI using RAWGraphs and d3.js that allows users to create different graphsgiven a dataset, including allocating variables for axes, grouping, etc.- Text-to-Image generation: built UI using stable diffusion API that allows users to create images based on user-highlighted text for the purpose of narrative adaption in creative work- Assisted in manuscript preparation, project website, and dataset release for public use Show less

Brown university
Jun 2023 - nowBrown Visual Computing Group (PI: Daniel Ritchie)- Developing zero-shot generative model for open universe 3D scene synthesis, which levergages LLMs and VLMs to describe room layouts in the form of object descriptions and relational constraints- Building text-based object and texture retrieval modules, using GPU Accelerated Approximate Similarity Search in CLIP latent space over a dataset of 900k objects/500 textures.- Structuring the Prompts for generating scene layouts with LLMs.- Building analysis and evaluation pipelines, including precision/recall metrics, regression analysis, and training a real/fake discriminator classifier- Enhancing retrieval accuracy with Vision Foundation Models (SAM, GLIP, CLIPSeg, BLIP, LLaVA, GPT-4V) Show less
Research Intern
Aug 2023 - nowArtificial Intelligence for Computational Creativity REU Recipient
Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

Adobe
Jun 2024 - nowResearch scientist/engineer internMentor: Matheus GadelhaCreating editable 2D-to-3D layouts with large generative models.
Licenses & Certifications
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The leadership alliance national symposium - presenter - 2023
The leadership alliance consortiumAug 2023 - View certificate

Quickbooks certified user online version
IntuitMay 2021
Honors & Awards
- Awarded to Rio Aguina-Kang1st Place National QuickBooks Competition Virtual Enterprises International May 2021 Oral and written competition at the National level, competed alongside Isabella Dadseresht
- Awarded to Rio Aguina-Kang2nd Place National Business Plan Competition Virtual Enterprise International Apr 2021 Oral and written competition at the National level, competed alongside Isabella Dadseresht, Lauren Smith, and Alexis Stez
- Awarded to Rio Aguina-KangProvost Honors UC San Diego Awarded by earning and maintaining a 3.5 or above GPA
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