California State University, Monterey Bay
AI Auto Completion: Your Debugging Frenemy
Education
2022-2026
Bachelor of Science
California State University Monterey Bay
Seaside, CA
GPA 3.93
Awards/Honors
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OpenAI ChatGPT Ambassador 2025'
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Dean's List 6 time recipient
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Attended AfroTech 2025' Fully Funded by Apple and HSI
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Chosen as one of 98 participants from over 300 candidates for the highly competitive Bloomberg Tech Insights Summer School program.
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Undergraduate researcher receiving funding through Innovation (Apple) Scholars.
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President of Women in Computer Science Club at CSUMB
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American Association of University Women Monterey Peninsula Branch Local Scholarship Winner
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Selected as one of only 100 students nationwide to attend the Google Leadership Symposium in Atlanta, GA.
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Presented Research Poster at CSU Monterey Bay Spring Showcase 2025
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Gave an Oral Presentation at the CSU Monterey Bay Summer Research Symposium 2025
Relevant Coursework
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Data Structures and Algorithms
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Advanced Machine Learning
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Software Engineering
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Data Science
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Database Management
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Operating Systems
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Computer Networks
Skills
Technologies
Programming languages
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Java
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Python
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JavaScript
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TypeScript
Machine learning / data
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TensorFlow
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Keras
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Matplotlib
Frontend / Web
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React.js
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HTML / CSS
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React Native
Backend / Frameworks
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Node.js
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Express (Express.js)
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Spring Boot
Databases
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MongoDB
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MySQL
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SQLite
Mobile / IDE
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Android Studio
Testing / QA
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Mocha
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Chai
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Jest
Tools
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VSCode
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IntelliJ
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GitHub/Git
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Docker
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MySQL workbench
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Slack
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Linux Terminal
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Heroku
Experience
ChatGPT Ambassador September 2025 - Present
OpenAI
● Hosting student-friendly events to spark “a-ha!” moments with AI
● Sharing tips, hacks, and stories on how students can responsibly use ChatGPT
● Collaborating with peers and the OpenAI team to shape the future of learning
Resident Advisor September 2025 - Present
CSU Monterey Bay Housing Department
● Mentoring and supporting a residential community of 36 students, fostering an inclusive and safe living environment.
● Organize and facilitate weekly community events to promote student engagement, wellness, and academic success.
● Enforce university housing policies and served as a first point of contact for conflict resolution, contributing to a respectful and cooperative community culture.
● Provide on-call support and crisis management, ensuring student safety and well-being
Data Science Teaching Assistant August 2025 - Present
CSU Monterey Bay School of Computing Department
● Supporting 36 students by debugging code and clarifying programming concepts, aiming to improve assignment completion rates.
● Strengthened students’ statistical analysis skills in Python by guiding them through applied examples and problem-solving
activities during lab sessions, covering topics such as Matplotlib, NumPy, Seaborn, K-Nearest Neighbors, logistic regression, and decision trees.
● Facilitating weekly 4-hour in-person lab sessions, ensuring students effectively applied course material in hands-on settings
● Conducting 4 weekly office hours to provide personalized support, addressing individual challenges and reinforcing understanding of data science topics.
Logic with Reasoning Teaching Assistant May 2025 - June 2025
CSU Monterey Bay Extended Education Department
● Supported 30+ students in mastering complex logical frameworks, strengthening their critical thinking and abstract problem-solving skills.
● Graded coursework and consistently delivered all required materials on a timely manner, maintaining accuracy and reliability in a fast-paced academic environment.
● Led weekly office hours and 1:1 sessions, translating technical concepts into clear, approachable language to boost student understanding and communication effectiveness.
Innovation (Apple) Scholar Researcher August 2024 - Present
CSU Monterey Bay Computer Science Department
● Independent research funded by The Global Hispanic Serving Institution Equity Innovation Hub with Apple mentors on the effects of AI auto-completion tools in web development under Dr. Joshua Gross
● Designing a Visual Studio Code extension in JavaScript that replicates GitHub Copilot’s autocomplete functionality that deliberately injects erroneous suggestions as part of a research experiment.
● Engaged in the UROC Summer Professional Development Series virtual writing intensive, attending bi-weekly sessions and submitting all deliverables.
● Curated an ePortfolio to showcase research and professional identity for graduate-school and employer audiences
Front-End Research Assistant May 2024 - Present
CSU Monterey Bay Computer Science Department
● Worked on Frankenweb which is the counterpart to Draculog, an energy consumption approximation program.
● Developed multiple front-end features for Frankenweb website that enabled backend programs to analyze data, produce graphs, and scores reflecting the code’s time complexity.
● Responsibilities included debugging, front-end coding in JavaScript, React, MySQL for backend data management and Mocha & Chai for testing while collaborating with other researchers to enhance user experience.
Frontend Engineer Open Energy Dashboard ( Pull Request ) June 2024 - Aug 2024
Software Engineering Intern CTI-Codeday
● Enhanced the unit/create page of OED (Open Energy Dashboard) by implementing drop down menu feature in React and TypeScript, enabling admins to select from standard time values or enter custom values.
● Collaborated an agile environment with a program analyst, project manager and software engineer to improve task completion efficiency for admins by 50%, significantly improving overall user experience.
● Contributed to open source code and merged 2 pull requests over 6 months, understanding distributed systems over 6 months
Frontend Engineer Open Energy Dashboard ( Pull Request ) February 2024
Software Engineering Intern CTI-Codeday
● Collaborated with the project manager of OED (open source project used by organizations to monitor and display energy information) to optimize user viewing options by writing unit tests with Chai and Mocha using JavaScript.
