About Me

Hi! I’m Jerry, a computer engineering student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I'm a Avionics Hardware Engineer on the airframe-avionics subteam at Liquid Rocketry at Illinois, and a Co-developer of Cinder, a game soon to be revealed.

• Prev. CTO @ Constellation Networking
• Prev. Director of IT @ Millennium STEM BC
• Solving Global Challenges '24 @ Yale Young Global Scholars
• Junior Instructor @ UBC Geering Up Engineering

Tech Stack

Education

• Aug 2026 — May 2030

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  B.S. in Computer Engineering.

  • Avionics Hardware Engineer @ Liquid Rocketry at Illinois
  • Tech @ CESA
• June 2024 - July 2024

  Yale Young Global Scholars 2nd Place

  Solving Global Challenges II. 2nd place @ Yale Capstone Project.

• Sept 2021 - May 2026

  White Rock Christian Academy

  IB MYP and Partial IB DP.

Research

• Aug 2024 — Feb 2025

  National High School Data Analysis & AI Challenge National Finalist

  National finalist in 2025 STEM Fellowship Big Data & AI Challenge. Python, NumPy, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib, Plotly.

• Oct 2024

  WiFi Triangulation Algorithm

  Python, NumPy, Scikit-learn, Plotly 3D, Matplotlib.

Hackathons

• Oct 2026

  Product Space · OpenPaper

  A platform for UIUC students to share and find past exams.

• Sept 2026

  54 Hackathon · FleetWorth 1st Place

  Predict truck prices from images only. DinoV2, FAISS.

• May 2026

  CascadiaJS · RoombaRat

  A Roomba with a phone on top that patrols classrooms and reports distracted students.

• May 2025

  XDHacksMini Privathon · EmailBloc 2nd Place

  A Chrome extension that analyzes a site's privacy risks and picks the right email for each signup.

• Feb 2025

  nwHacks (nwPlus + MLH) · Medlinks

  A healthcare app for logging symptoms, getting AI-based guidance, and connecting with doctors.

• Jan 2025

  MLH Hacks for Hackers · CodeGPT 1st Place

  Winner of Best Overall Hack.