Competitions

Varsity Rowing Sept 2022 – Current

My time as a varsity athlete on the University of St. Andrews rowing team and Queen's University rowing team has deeply influenced who I am as a person, friend, and leader. Rowing is a sport that demands unwavering commitment and trust in your teammates. The leasons I have learned and the frienships I have made will stick with me for the rest of my life. Although I have been lucky to have many successes with my rowing career the start was not as smooth. Queen’s rowing team requires athletes to meet a challenging fitness standard to be considered for the team. A month before this test, I was a second away from the standard. However, a disappointing turn in events led to me rowing 16 seconds slower than required. Although I could not train with the team that season, I was committed to making the team the following year. After months of consistent eating and exercising habits, I improved my rowing time by 40 seconds. The sacrifices I made, and the limits I pushed myself to, took a toll on me mentally and physically. Every time I fell short of a result I desired, I struggled to believe in the benefits of my hard work. I surprised myself in realizing that my biggest takeaway was not physical achievement, but the understanding that success follows discipline and consistency. Setbacks are inevitable, it is far more important to build resilience so habitual hard work can continue paying off in the long run.

Asset Management Hackathon Sept 2025 – Oct 2025

My teammate and I built predictive models and applied Markowitz optimization to construct portfolios that maximize mean-variance utility. We developed a unique approach that incorporated sentiment analysis, transformer classifiers, and LightGBM regressors to generate expected returns with improved performance metrics. Throughout this project I gained experience on the entire workflow from preprocessing, to prediction, to portfolio optimization, and finally analyzing performance metrics.

GitHub: Project Code

How to Change the World Competition Sept 2025 – Oct 2025

The How to Change the World program aimed to provide participants a learning journey in which they learn to take a holistic approach to the many global challenges laid out by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Throughout our journey, my team and I focused on the issues around access to affordable and sustainable energy in Inuvik, Northwest Territories. With our proposed solution (winning the Most Implementable Award) addressing the high energy cost by filling the gaps in energy and financial literacy that exist between incoming experts and the residents of Inuvik.

Notion: Read more about ESCRI