I am a first year Ph.D. student at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. I work under the Learning and Intelligent Systems Group, supervised by Leslie Pack Kaelbling and Tomás Lozano-Pérez.

Previously, I obtained my B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford in 2009. During those years, I worked with Andrew Ng on his STAIR (Stanford Artificial Intelligence Robot) project (see the research section).

My research interests are mainly in artificial intelligence, and I currently work on decision-theoretic planning under uncertainty and partial observability. This will likely be extended in many different directions since I am still in my early days of exploring the topic. I am also extremely interested in theory, math, and logic, and these will probably make their way into my research eventually. Other more diverse potential interests yet to be explored include computational cognitive science, computational music cognition, and computational law (yes, everything is very computational).

I was born and raised in Hong Kong prior to going over to the U.S. for undergraduate studies. I spent a very memorable seven years in secondary school at Chinese International School.