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                name: "University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Champaign",
                caption: "MS in Electrical Engineering",
                date: "2022-2024",
                desc: "Cumulative GPA: 3.94, Expected Graduation: May 2024."
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                name: "Defects and frustration in the packing of soft balls",
                caption: "Jao, Kenneth, et al. “Defects and frustration in the packing of Soft Balls.” Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, vol. 445, Mar. 2023, p. 133631, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physd.2022.133631.",
                date: "2022",
                desc: "First author publication coauthored with Keith Promislow, creating modeling for star polymers, eliciting a complex energy landscape despite a simple model."
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				name: "Michigan State University (MSU), East Lansing",
				caption: "BS in Computational Mathematics. BS in Mathematics. Minor in Computer Science",
				date: "2018-2022",
				desc: "Cumulative GPA: 3.9401"
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                name: "Research Assistant in Electrical Engineering",
                caption: "Researched with Zhen Peng, professor of Electrical Engineering at UIUC.",
                date: "2022-2024",
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                    "Researched topics in large-scale computational simulation, quantum computing applications, and surrogate model creation and optimization with Gaussian Processes and Machine Learning, primarily applied to EE.",
                    "Handled DevOps within the lab: automated dependency management, created build process and library for CPU/GPU targets for rapid testing, and managed local Git servers"
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				name: "Undergraduate Researcher in Mathematics",
				caption: "Researched with Keith Promislow, chairperson of the Mathematics Department at MSU.",
				date: "2021-2022",
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                    "Conducted theoretical mathematical research into soft packing problems, modeling with partial differential equations.",
                    "Wrote custom software for all of the numerical simulations and analysis, compile into a Python package. [https://github.com/ksjdragon/squish]"
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				name: "Undergraduate Learning Assistant (ULA)",
				caption: "Assistant to the professor (10 hours per week)",
				date: "Fall 2021",
				desc: "For the class 'CMSE/MTH 314 Matrix Algebra with Computational Applications', I aided in facilitating an interactive classroom, alongside grading assignments and hosting office hours."
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				date: "Since 2014",
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                    "Full-stack web app developer, significant experience with large-scale GPU/HPCC software, complex build environments.",
                    "Experience with scripting web-crawlers, data (pre)processors, small server-side middleware between APIs."
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				name: "(Linux) System Administrator",
				caption: "Server setup, maintenance, and application management",
				date: "Since 2014",
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                    "Proficient in maintaining and configuring Linux servers, and organizing network systems. Can secure implementations of server applications with industry standard cybersecurity.",
                    "Utilized Docker/Podman, AWS, Git, and NGINX web servers, load balancing for production-level external-facing and internal-facing applications."
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	// 			caption: "Designed custom synthesizer programs for self-use in music production",
	// 			date: "Fall 2020",
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	// 			name: "VR Arm Tracking Device",
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	// 			date: "2016",
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	// 			date: "2017",
	// 			desc: "Investigated more complex haptic feedback through wave interference using linear resonant actuators."
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	// 			caption: "Server side programming and account management with file security",
	// 			date: "2016",
	// 			desc: "Cloud database web app created to ease file downloading and storage for servers, with accounts and sharing systems. [https:github.com/ksjdragon/binbin]"
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	// 			name: "Collaborative Online Planner",
	// 			caption: "Database management and responsive and reactive web design",
	// 			date: "2017",
	// 			desc: "Online planning web app designed for academic use. Enabled users to have a collaborative planner specific to individual classes and teachers. [https:github.com/ksjdragon/hourglass]"
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