Writing

Essays, research proposals, and policy analysis across AI safety, history, and culture.

AI Safety & Policy

SPAR Application  ·  2026

Selected Essays: AI Safety Policy & Governance

Five featured responses from a competitive AI safety research fellowship application — covering liability caps, OpenAI's Preparedness Framework, biomarker qualification as an analogy for AI evals, Loss of Control risk factors, and a martingale-based framework for detecting sycophancy in LLM interactions.

AI Safety Policy Governance LLMs
URC-Sciences Summer Program Application  ·  2026

Algorithmic Monocultures in LLM Political Framing

Research proposal examining whether LLM alignment techniques — particularly those enforcing political "neutrality" — systematically degrade epistemic diversity. Proposes an adversarial prompt dataset across 12 political vectors and a parallelized pipeline using LIME/SHAP interpretability tools.

Research Proposal LLM Alignment Political Bias
ACM AI AI Scholars Fellowship Application  ·  2025

MLP Bipedal Walker: PPO Training Writeup

Technical writeup of a reinforcement learning project training a PPO agent on the BipedalWalker-v3 environment. Covers curriculum learning, GAE tuning, entropy scheduling, gSDE, observation normalization, and ablation study results over 1M timesteps.

Reinforcement Learning PPO Technical

Linguistics

Linguistics 1  ·  UCLA  ·  November 2025

Hong Kongese and Internet Influences in the English Speech of Oddly Specific Crystal

Sociolinguistic analysis of a YouTuber's idiolect — tracing Internet-origin slang, her mixed American/British/Hong Kong dialect, and how growing up in a Chinese-speaking environment shapes her stochastic simplification of consonant clusters.

Sociolinguistics Phonetics Dialect
Linguistics 1  ·  UCLA  ·  December 2025

The Grammar and Lexicon of the English Speech of Oddly Specific Crystal

Follow-up analysis covering discourse particles ("like," "right?") as markers of informality and relatability, a phrase structure tree diagram, and the rhetorical functions of profanity across formal vs. storytime video formats.

Syntax Pragmatics Discourse

History & Culture

Senior Project Paper  ·  Barrington High School  ·  December 2024

The Semantic Space Between: The Timeless Symbolism of American Chinese Cuisine

Traces the American Chinese restaurant industry from the Gold Rush to the present, arguing that the food's evolution mirrors the demographic, social, and political journey of Chinese America — from Taishan-origin bachelor communities to the modern pan-Chinese diaspora.

Chinese American History Immigration Culture
AP World History: Modern  ·  Barrington High School  ·  April 2025

The Great Leap Forward and the Inherence of Famine to Socialism

Argues that the Great Chinese Famine was not an inherent consequence of socialist ideology but rather the product of Maoist leadership failures — bad science, bureaucratic disinformation, and grain misappropriation — using primary sources and economic history scholarship.

Chinese History Political Economy Research Paper
Asian American Studies M179  ·  UCLA  ·  2026

Japan's Restrictive Multi-Tiered Immigration Regime

Examines how Japan's colonial history, ethnonationalist cultural identity, and paternalistic social attitudes produce a uniquely restrictive immigration regime despite acute labor shortages — drawing on comparative case studies and the education-migration pipeline.

Immigration Policy Asian Studies Comparative Politics
Asian American Studies M179  ·  UCLA  ·  2026

Intra-Asian Migration and the Limits of the Asian Community

Examines whether the quotidian experiences of intra-Asian migrants — motivated by economic opportunity and socio-cultural affinity — support or preclude the formation of a proposed "Asian Community" modeled on the European Union.

Migration Asian Studies Transnationalism