2024
graduated high school with a 98% average while training ~30 hours per week
about
currently
building
research
- neural-ode stroke triage @ center for health informatics, university of calgary
- covalent drug optimization @ immunology research center, mcmaster
studies
- year 3 @ mcmaster university (b.eng.bme, b.h.sc)
- teaching assistant @ anatomy & physiology lab
dance
- captain @ mcmaster varsity dance team
origins
i started dancing in 2011 and spent over a decade training to do it professionally. trying to move better turned into strength training, which turned into studying exercise physiology to understand what my body was actually doing. that curiosity kept widening, from how muscles work to how cells do, until it landed me in biomedical engineering.
academics
2024
enrolled at mcmaster university for biomedical engineering
2025
completed first-year engineering with a 12.0/12.0 gpa, entering the chemical engineering department as the top-ranked student in the cohort
2026
became mcmaster's first dual-major student in engineering and health sciences
2026
shifted focus from maximizing gpa to research and building, holding grades at a deliberate 10.0–12.0 to protect time for the work that compounds
internships
2025
data science @ myant: built automated failure-detection pipelines for wearable devices using user telemetry
2026
ai r&d @ samsung medical center: building a spatial-transcriptomics pipeline (diffusion models → gnn) for breast cancer drug-target identification
background
toolbox
- machine learning (tensorflow, pytorch, jax)
- compbio: (rnaseq, dge, rna velocity, grn, docking, md, multiomics, spatial bio, drug discovery)
- programming (python, r, sql, js/ts)
- foss (linux, git, bash, vim, latex, docker, aptainer, conda)
- wet lab (molecular cloning, pcr, flow cytometry, mass spec, nmr, cell culture)
interests
- athletics (dance, powerlifting)
- community building (nucleate, cansbridge)
- travel
- cooking
- reading
- language learning (korean, french, german)
- self-improvement (philosophy, meditation)
- entrepreneurship
- fashion
- teaching (dance, anatomy)
- korea
- writing