I'm a second year student at the University of Virginia studying
Computer Science and graduating in May 2027. I'm currently serving as
president of the Virginia AI Security Initiative and VP of
Education for Machine Learning @ UVA. My interests lie in exploring
policy and technical solutions to the problems that AI currently
poses and may pose in the future.
Outside of school and VAISI, I love running, reading, and strategy
board games.
Feel free to book a time or reach out by email if you ever want to
chat about anything above.
qyb9kg [at] virginia [dot] edu
Organizing
Virginia AI Security Initiative
I'm currently serving as president of the Virginia AI
Security Initiative, where our mission is to mitigate
catastrophic risk from advanced AI. I'm also a
Pathfinder fellow,
through which I'm receiving mentorship and funding to help our
group.
This past semester, we have been aggressively scaling up
operations, running events like our recent AI Policy
Competition with over 50 competitors. We've also been running
an AI Governance Fellowship, multiple other events and
competitions, and a technical research team focused on
replicating important AI safety papers or exploring promising
research directions.
Posing with the winners of our HooHacks 26 trackFuture of AI Panel, Spring 26
Amber
Batman
Projects
MIT Battlecode
Finalist in MIT’s global AI programming competition, placing
2nd out of 400+ teams in 2026 while building autonomous bots
for complex team-based strategy.
Co-organized an AI policy conference with 35 students from
9 schools and 30+ guests working in the AI policy scene.
See schools
UMich
Amherst
GT
UVA
GW
Georgetown
Washington and Lee
GMU
UMD
See photos
LMI client project
Implemented and benchmarked a RAG pipeline using the OpenAI
API and ChromaDB, and explored algorithmic improvements over
baseline retrieval methods.
Dirt
Hoohacks 2025 project: a web app that let users upload an
image to check whether an item was compostable, along with a
map of composting sites around UVA.
Space Game
A Unity multiplayer turn-based strategy game I built with a
team during junior and senior year of high school.
Experience
University of Virginia
Research Assistant, 2025-2026
Conducted research on concept bottleneck layers and
mechanistic interpretability in computer vision pipelines,
and fine-tuned open-source models for autonomous driving.
University of Virginia
Teaching Assistant, 2025-
Assisted with instruction in Computer Systems and
Organization 1 and Probability, including Assembly and C
programming, and held regular office hours for students.
Fairfax Collegiate
Instructor, Summer 2025
Led coding and math classes, including Python and Algebra,
and designed interactive lessons centered on problem solving
and algorithmic thinking.
Zyglio
Software Engineer Intern, 2025
Developed LLM-based applications with LangChain, LangGraph,
and MS AutoGen and deployed systems in Azure cloud
environments.
Leadership
ML@UVA and VAISI
VP of Education and Project Manager for ML@UVA, where I’ve
created competitions and managed client-facing machine
learning project teams, alongside serving as president of
VAISI.
