Rio Aguina-Kang

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location of Rio Aguina-KangSan Diego, California, United States
Phone number of Rio Aguina-Kang+91 xxxx xxxxx
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  • Timeline

    Aug 2020 - May 2021

    Chief Financial Officer

    Virtual Enterprises International, Inc.
    Oct 2021 - Jun 2023

    Peer Mentor

    UC San Diego
    Office of Academic Support and Instructional Services (OASIS)
    Sept 2022 - now

    Research Assistant

    Stanford University
    Jun 2023 - now

    Research Intern

    Brown University
    Providence, Rhode Island, United States
    Current Company
    Jun 2024 - now

    Research Scientist/Engineer Intern

    Adobe
  • About me

    AI/ML Research Intern at Adobe

  • Education

    • Uc san diego

      2021 - 2025
      Bachelor of science - bs cognitive science w/ specialization in machine learning & neural computation

      Activities and Societies: Triton Fighters (Officer), Data Science Student Society, Psychology Club Minor in Data Science, Minor in Mathematics

    • Murrieta valley high school

      2017 - 2021
      International baccalaureate® (ib) diploma programme (dp) high school diplomas and certificates

      Activities and Societies: Virtual Enterprise, S.A.G.E. Club (President), Chess Club (Secretary)

  • Experience

    • Virtual enterprises international, inc.

      Aug 2020 - May 2021
      Chief financial officer

      Virtually 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 2023

      Mentoring 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 2023
      • Summer Bridge Intern

        Oct 2021 - Jun 2022
    • Stanford university

      Sept 2022 - now
      Research assistant

      Cognitive 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 - now

      Brown 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 - now
      • Artificial Intelligence for Computational Creativity REU Recipient

        Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
    • Adobe

      Jun 2024 - now
      Research scientist/engineer intern

      Mentor: Matheus GadelhaCreating editable 2D-to-3D layouts with large generative models.

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • The leadership alliance national symposium - presenter - 2023

      The leadership alliance consortium
      Aug 2023
      View certificate certificate
    • Quickbooks certified user online version

      Intuit
      May 2021
      View certificate certificate
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Rio Aguina-Kang
      1st 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-Kang
      2nd 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-Kang
      Provost Honors UC San Diego Awarded by earning and maintaining a 3.5 or above GPA