Hi, I'm Jimmy

About Me

Hailing from Flushing, New York, I graduated from Columbia University in December 2024 with a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science.

What started out as a reluctant acknowledgment that taking a computer science class in high school might be useful for my future turned out to be a defining career choice at the intersection of computer science, education, and healthcare. Most of my early exposure to CS came through bioinformatics research, culminating in three first-author publications. Beginning in my sophomore year of high school, I worked as a research assistant in Professor Kuan-lin Huang's Computational Omics Lab at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, spearheading machine learning studies on COVID-19 and Alzheimer's disease. During my freshman year of college, I conducted an epidemiological research study with Dr. Daniel Freedberg as a DSI Scholar at the Columbia University Data Science Institute, identifying which antibiotic classes confer the greatest risk for community-acquired C. difficile infection.

Soon, I also began taking an interest in software development. During the summer of my freshman year, I joined Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as a software engineering intern, working on a CLI tool for MSK developers and a clinician-facing Connected Care Dashboard application. During the summer of my sophomore year, I worked as a software engineering intern at Microsoft + Nuance, building iOS apps that make use of the ambient note-taking capabilities of Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX) technology to reduce clinical burden. During the summer of my junior year, I worked as a software engineering intern at ICF, working on data pipelines for America’s HIV Epidemic Analysis Dashboard (AHEAD) and a RAG chatbot. After graduating, I joined IXL Learning as a full-time software engineer on the Backbone team. Moving forward, I hope to continue using software to bridge gaps in healthcare, education, and beyond.

In the past, I have also dabbled quite a bit in teaching, working as a teacher, tutor, and swimming instructor throughout high school. At Columbia, I was a teaching assistant for Professor Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi's Artificial Intelligence class, a member of the education committee for Application Development Initiative, and the editor-in-chief of the Columbia Junior Science Journal. In my free time, I enjoy playing basketball and volleyball, solving chess puzzles, trying new food, watching anime and YouTube, and compiling sad pop playlists on Spotify. Anyways, that's just a little bit about me. Enjoy exploring the rest of my website!