Projects.
Research
Foundation models for fusion
Large neural networks trained on heterogeneous tokamak data, specialized to downstream diagnostic and control tasks. APS DPP 2025; ICLR 2026 Workshop DATA-FM.
OracleFlow
Class-conditional normalizing flows as oracles for exact posteriors. Scaling laws, active learning, and the limits of learning from exact posteriors. arXiv Jan 2026.
TokEye
Fast signal extraction for fluctuating tokamak time series. Real-time, fluctuation-aware feature pipelines for plasma diagnostics. arXiv Feb 2026.
ML emission front control at DIII-D
Led a real-time, machine-learning enabled emission front control experiment at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility. APS DPP 2024.
ORBIT-GPU acceleration
20× speedup on CUDA for the ORBIT-GPU plasma simulator at PPPL.
Websites I maintain
Conferences & communities
California Neurotech Conference (CNTC)
Founded the 2023 conference (400+ attendees nationally) via CruX at UCLA — interdisciplinary AI, neuroscience, and cognitive science.
American Nuclear Society @ UCLA
Founder & president — built the UCLA chapter from scratch.
Psi Chi Research Committee, UCLA
Research coordinator — 80+ member literature reviews, year-long research program for 40+ undergrads.
NeuroTechX Competition — Best ERP
8-member NTX Competition team — 3rd internationally, Best ERP Category.