ML Researcher · vim enthusiast ·

Traversing life's
loss landscape

I'm Allan, a sophomore at UCLA studying computational mathematics. I work as an undergraduate researcher at BigML, where I explore data-efficient techniques to improve reinforcement learning methods under Professor Baharan Mirzasoleiman. During Winter '25, I was a research intern at DatologyAI working on multimodal data curation and reasoning VLMs.

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

LLM pretraining VLM reasoning RLVR data‑centric ML inference engineering