Machine Learning Interatomic Potential Research Assistant at Laboratory of Advanced Multiscale Material Innovation, Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

January 1, 2022 - November 6, 2025

Generated training data via MD structure sampling and ab initio QE calculations; engineered symmetry-function descriptors for translation/rotation/permutation invariance; developed and trained FNN potentials in PyTorch with reproducible configs; quantified model uncertainty with Bootstrap and Cross-Validation; performed SHAP-based feature importance analysis to prune descriptors; validated learned potentials in LAMMPS (NNP/n2p2) for thermal/mechanical properties; automated end-to-end data pipelines on HPC clusters using SLURM.

AI Agent Software Engineering Intern at Pinetree Health

August 1, 2025 - August 1, 2025

Conducted AI agent R&D; contributed Python code for browser-use and AgentS; integrated benchmarks (WebArena, GAIA); standardized benchmarks with AgentLab; maintained SOTA LLM models for reasoning and image grounding; implemented a signal handler for debugging; improved benchmark accuracy by 25-30%; improved browsing robustness; fixed macOS input stability; enabled Python code execution in workflows.