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Ph.D.

McGill University / Mila – Quebec AI Institute

Computer Science

M.Sc.

McGill University / Mila – Quebec AI Institute

Computer Science

B.Sc.

University of British Columbia

Computer Science and Physics (Combined Honours)

Software Development Engineer

Amazon

Developed and maintained highly critical tax-related services used across Amazon.

• Owned full software lifecycle with emphasis on continuous deployment, performance, scalability, and availability.

NSERC USRA Research Intern

University of Toronto, Department of Physics (ATLAS group)

Investigated a novel approach to Higgs boson tagging as part of an LHC search for exotic particles.

Software Developer Intern

Thoughtexchange

Full stack development for Thoughtexchange app.

• Implemented an NLP algorithm to sort users.
• Built APIs to support moderation and phone number authentication.

Analysis and Prototyping Software Engineer Intern

Thoughtexchange

Developed ML-based methods to discover and classify common use patterns; designed interactive visualizations to guide app development.

Research Intern

TRIUMF

Analyzed gamma-ray spectra to evaluate nuclear structure in a Coulomb excitation experiment.

• Calibrated detectors and supervised experimental shifts.

LeMat-GenBench: Bridging the gap between crystal generation and materials discovery

NeurIPS Workshop on AI for Accelerated Materials Design

SymmCD: Symmetry-Preserving Crystal Generation with Diffusion Models

ICLR

Energy loss functions for physical systems

NeurIPS

Symmetry-Aware Generative Modeling through Learned Canonicalization

NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations

E(3)-Equivariant Mesh Neural Networks

AISTATS

Molecular fragment-based diffusion model for drug discovery

ICLR 2023 Workshop on Machine Learning for Drug Discovery

Using Multiple Vector Channels Improves E(n)-Equivariant Graph Neural Networks

ICML 2023 Workshop on Machine Learning for Astrophysics

Single neutron transfer on 23Ne and its relevance for the pathway of nucleosynthesis in astrophysical X-ray bursts

Physics Letters B

FRQNT Doctoral Training Scholarship

FRQNT

$25,000/year for 4 years (2023–2027)

NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s program

NSERC

$17,500 (2021–2022)

NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award

NSERC

$6,000 (2019)

UBC Trek Excellence Scholarship for Continuing Students

University of British Columbia

Top 5% of faculty (2015, 2016, 2018)

UBC Dean’s Honour List

University of British Columbia

2014–2018

UBC Science Scholar

University of British Columbia

Recognized as Science Scholar (2015–2018)

UBC Computer Science Scholarship

University of British Columbia

Awarded for academic excellence in Computer Science (2018)

Dorothy Gladys Studer Memorial Scholarship

University of British Columbia

Highest standing among 3rd-year physics students (2018)

Dean of Science Scholarship

University of British Columbia

Awarded for outstanding academic achievement (2018)

Charles and Jane Banks Scholarship

University of British Columbia

Awarded for academic distinction (2017)

J. Fred Muir Memorial Scholarship in Science

University of British Columbia

Awarded for academic excellence in Science (2016)

Thomas and Evelyn Hebb Memorial Scholarship

University of British Columbia

Awarded for outstanding achievement in Physics (2016)

Speaker

Cosmic Connections: a ML × Astrophysics Symposium (Simons Foundation)

Presented a talk on ML and astrophysics.

Reviewer

Peer Review (ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS workshops)

Reviewer for ICLR 2022 Blog Track; ICML 2023 ML4Astro Workshop; NeurIPS 2023 & 2025 AI for Accelerated Materials Design; NeurIPS 2025 & ICLR 2025 Frontiers in Probabilistic Inference Workshop.

Teaching Assistant (CPSC 121: Models of Computation)

University of British Columbia

TA for undergraduate course CPSC 121.