Education

• BS in Computer Science

  2023 - 2027
  The University of Texas at Arlington

Work Experience

• Research Group Member

  September 2023 – Present
  Arlington Computational Linguistics Lab

  Contributed to the design and development of multiple research projects, creating novel datasets and building machine learning models for analyzing canine vocal communication. Dedicated to this work during summer and semester breaks, which resulted in multiple publications in top-tier conferences on topics including phonetic discovery, emotional analysis, and longitudinal studies of dog barks.

• Web Developer

  June 2023 – Present
  UT Arlington, College of Engineering

  Responsible for managing departmental web applications including the CSE Colloquium, Faculty Candidate Review, GTA Evaluation, Ph.D. Milestone, Ph.D. Annual Review, Room Management, and Tenure and Promotion applications. Improved website-wide search query performance by over 90% using a caching mechanism.

• Junior Full Stack Developer

  December 2022 – June 2023
  SilverLine System Integrators Pvt. Ltd.

  Spearheaded the development of 5+ full-stack applications using Django and Flask for the fintech startup. Designed and implemented backend systems, including APIs and authentication mechanisms for point-of-sale devices. Built responsive front-end interfaces with ReactJS and Next.JS, and managed SQL databases. Also responsible for deploying to our cloud servers.

Publications

• A Data-driven Approach to the Longitudinal Study of Canine Vocal Pattern Development

  2025
  ACM MM 25 (Brave New Ideas)
• DogSpeak: A Canine Vocalization Classification Dataset

  2025
  ACM MM 25 (Datasets Track)
• Emotional Canines: A Dataset for Analysis of Arousal and Valence in Dog Vocalization

  2025
  ACM MM 25 (Datasets Track)
• Toward Automatic Discovery of a Canine Phonetic Alphabet

  2025
  Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Awards

• UTA CSE Departmental REU Grants (Spring 2024, Fall 2024)

  2024
  CSE Department, UTA

  Received two consecutive research grants for projects in the emerging field of animal language processing under the supervision of Dr. Kenny Zhu.

Skills