ML Researcher · vim enthusiast

Traversing life's
loss landscape

I'm Allan, a junior at UCLA studying computational mathematics. I work as an undergraduate researcher at BigML, where I explore all things data under Professor Baharan Mirzasoleiman. During Winter '25, I was a research intern at DatologyAI working on multimodal data curation and reasoning VLMs.

I enjoy working on my distributed training stack, thinking about how to make silicon think, reading classical literature, writing poetry, ricing Linux, and talking to friends (probably my favorite activity).

LLM pretraining VLM reasoning RLVR data‑centric ML inference engineering training infra