About
I’m Michael, an AI engineer in the Bay Area.
I build agent runtimes and evaluation harnesses at Epoch AI / Zerg AI, and I do forward-deployed engineering with our customers.
Outside work, I build apps for friends, contribute to open-source projects and work on my audiobook setup.
now AI engineer, full-time
school CS, UC Riverside, 2026
here Bay Area
Education
UC Riverside
B.S. Computer Science, June 2026. GPA 3.66, with a minor in Strategy & Entrepreneurship.
Founder and president of AI at UCR, the university's first official AI organization.
Awards
AMD University Program Award
For PHiLIP, a human-in-the-loop image-generation prototype on AMD ROCm and PixArt-alpha. Official results
Cutie Hack 2022, first place in the sustainability track.