The Air Cadet program
From age 12-19 I was a member of the Air Cadet program. Here is a picture from my final ceremonial review 
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Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu stuff
I compete in local torunaments as often as possible and was recently promoted to blue belt by my coach, Max Nakamura!
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publications
The Vickrey Auction with a Single Duplicate Bidder Approximates the Optimal Revenue
Published in ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 2019 (with Hu Fu and Chris Liaw). [arXiv, EC 2019, Slides by Chris Liaw]
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Tight analyses for non-smooth stochastic gradient descent
Published in Conference on Learning Theory, 2019 (with Nick Harvey, Chris Liaw, and Yaniv Plan). [arXiv, COLT 2019, slides]
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Simple and optimal high-probability bounds for strongly-convex stochastic gradient descent
Published in arXiv, 2019 (with Nick Harvey and Chris Liaw). [arXiv, slides]
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M.Sc thesis: Understanding the role of averaging in non-smooth stochastic gradient descent
Published in University of British Columbia open collections, 2020 (with ). [PDF, ]
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Optimal anytime regret with two experts
Published in IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 2020 (with Nick Harvey, Chris Liaw, and Edwin Perkins). [arXiv, ]
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talks
Simple and optimal high-probability bounds for strongly-convex stochastic gradient descent
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teaching
CPSC221: Introduction to Algorithms">Undergraduate Teaching Assistant: Into to Algorithms Permalink
, UBC, Department of Computer Science, 2014
CPSC320: Intermediate Algorithms">Undergraduate Teaching Assistant: Intermediate Algorithms Permalink
, UBC, Department of Computer Science, 2015
CPSC313: Computer Hardware and Operating Systems">Undergraduate Teaching Assistant: Computer Hardware and Operating Systems Permalink
, UBC, Department of Computer Science, 2016
CPSC420: Advanced Algorithms">Graduate Teaching Assistant: Advanced Algorithms Permalink
, UBC, Department of Computer Science, 2018
CPSC421: Theory of Computing ">Undergraduate Teaching Assistant: Theory of Computation Permalink
, UBC, Department of Computer Science, 2018
I was awarded a 2018 UBC Computer Science Graduate Teaching Award for my work as a teaching assistant for this class. Read more
CPSC 536S: Submodular Optimization">Graduate Teaching Assistant: Submodular Optimization Permalink
, UBC, Department of Computer Science, 2018