A little more about the person behind the commits.
I’m Richard — a UCLA statistics and data science student who treats building software and studying uncertainty as the same discipline seen from two angles. I care about clean data, honest models, and interfaces that get out of the way.
Résumé ↗Education
- DegreeB.S. Statistics & Data Science, UCLA
- MinorsMathematics, Data Science Engineering
- GPA3.95
- GraduatingJune 2028
Now & Before
- Now
Third year at UCLA, graduating June 2028, splitting most days between STATS 102B problem sets and two LeetCode questions before lecture. Saturdays are for testing a new Westwood cafe and updating my poker equity spreadsheet.
- Before
Before that, I shipped Embers at LAHacks 2025 and spent two quarters in the Bruin Sports Analytics lab modeling NBA upset odds in R. Cordial.AI, my Chrome extension, came out of that same stretch and now sits at 400 installs.
Experience
- Apr 2026 – presentSoftware Engineer · Creative Labs
Building Homie, a cross-platform roommate app — chore splitting, shared expenses, and group scheduling.
- May 2025 – Aug 2025Data Engineer Intern · Royal Bank of Canada
Built a personalized recommendation system powering data discovery for 500+ enterprise users, surfacing 1,000+ datasets a week.
- Sep 2024 – May 2025Undergraduate Researcher · Bruin Sports Analytics
Modeled NBA upset likelihood against betting-market odds using multivariate regression.
Projects
Step 1 on beating Vegas
MLB Predictor
Full-stack baseball analytics platform that models MLB game scores using historical Statcast data, using feature engineering, probabilistic modeling, and interactive data visualization
Linear Regression · scikit learn · Statcast
Best Use of Zetic · LAHacks 2026
Scrubs
Privacy-first iOS app that redacts PHI from healthcare photos entirely on-device — zero network calls, zero HIPAA exposure.
Swift · Apple Vision · On-device ML
Best Use of Gemini · LAHacks 2025
Embers
Insurance valuation tool that turns 2-minute home walkthroughs into detailed inventory reports with YOLOv11 + Gemini 2.5.
YOLOv11 · Gemini 2.5 · Python
Best Use of Groq.AI · DevFest 2025
iAssist
AI-powered vision assistant giving visually impaired users real-time navigation from just a smartphone.
Computer Vision · Accessibility · AI
40k+ impressions on Linkedin, ~400 installs
Cordial.AI
Chrome extension email assistant that fills in the blanks for you.
HTML · Chrome Web Store · Productivity