I started playing the harp when I was four because Minnie Mouse played one on a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episode. Music made me curious about how it's able to unite and bring people from all backgrounds together, so I came to Princeton to study Psychology. Product turned out to be a mix of both: learning something new, then getting people with different backgrounds to build together.
Right now that means Hoagie products, a lab I started for non-CS students, and this past summer on Disney+ Search.
Currently
- BuildingHoagieCalendar (beta)
- Researchinghow 500ms of sound creates narrative
- ReadingThe Creative Act by Rick Rubin
- ListeningLa Source by Hasselmans
- EatingTomi Jazz, New York City, 9.4 on Beli
Case studies
Making Disney+ search results explainable. Over ten weeks in Seattle I took on four projects, from the ranking model to an assistant that two teams adopted.→
Rebuilding Hoagie around event discovery. When I joined in fall 2025 HoagieMail already worked, so nobody had looked hard at what using it every day actually felt like.→
Dashboards for districts that had stopped logging in. “We have the data. We just don’t know what it’s telling us.” Fifteen K-12 administrators said the same thing in different words in summer 2025, and 17 of the 20 quiet districts came back.→
Teaching AI to students outside computer science. In spring 2026 I ran the pilot for 25+ undergraduates from psychology, classics, sociology, and non-CS STEM. Nine of them presented a project at the closing symposium.→
Side projects
- Unwrapped: reads a Spotify listening history and looks for why the songs got played, which is the part Wrapped skips.
- Spotify MCP: 12 tools connecting Claude to Spotify. I built it for a workshop and kept using it.
- Music sequencing: a coherence metric for playlist order. Across 114K tracks, playlists ordered by the metric scored 39% higher on it than random shuffling did.
Blogs
- Aug 2026Why 500 milliseconds of sound creates entire narratives.
- Jul 2026Working with AI like it's a product sprint.
- Jun 2026Hong Kong, a harp, and how I ended up in product.
About me
Music was my first love, and there is always more music in the world to discover. Similarly, I love connecting with different kinds of communities and building / leading things that will leave a positive impact. Outside of work, I play the harp, sing jazz a cappella, hike wherever I can find a trail, and boulder. I also do calligraphy and crochet, write poems, and log every new restaurant and dessert shop I try on Beli.
I love pushing myself out of my comfort zone, and went from singing in the shower to singing with the Princeton Katzenjammers, the oldest co-ed a cappella group in the Ivy League. I'm the president, and I've led the group on tour to Montreal, with DC and Korea coming up. Take a listen to our music :)
Résumé at a glance Full version ↗
I study Psychology and CS at Princeton, class of 2027, with minors in SML and OQDS, and I first-authored a manuscript at the Music Cognition Lab that is now under review. This past summer I was a PM intern on Disney+ Search, and the summer before that I was a product success intern at Cariina. This senior year, I am the head of product at Hoagie, Princeton's premier app development club for Princeton students, and founder of the AI Exploration Lab, which I pitched to Data and Intelligent Systems (DaIS). I was previously a Claude Builder Ambassador for Anthropic and the President of New York Tiger Trek 2025, a week-long entrepreneurship trip for 20 Princeton students in the city.
