Sept. 2025 – May 2026
Machine Learning Research Assistant
OPUS Lab, UC Santa Barbara
PythonPyTorchOptimization Algorithms
Responsibilities
- —Built Python/PyTorch prototypes simulating PAOA components for experiments on stochastic binary networks.
- —Developed visualization tools to analyze energy distributions and variational parameterization effects.
Achievements
- —Benchmarked PAOA on spin-glass optimization tasks against Simulated Annealing and QAOA baselines.