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 in the same direction.
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. We traveled to Tokyo in winter 2025. This is what we sound like, recorded for our 50th anniversary.
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.
