About me

I enjoy making music, hacking, ping-pong, Portuguese, and adventures. I'm applying to grad schools for the '25 Ph.D. cycle.

Some projects I've worked on recently

       The Cookware: An electronic instrument built and designed for Paul Lehrman's EMID course. 
        The Cookware.

        Compost: A language with an affine type system and compiler-time garbage collection. Submitted for Richard Townsend's Compilers course. 

        An Alternative to Pattern Matching, Inspired by Verse (Senior Honor's Thesis): A study of how equations within the Verse Calculus subsume pattern matching in traditional functional languages.
            My advisors were Norman Ramsey and Milod Kazerounian.  
            The work received Highest Thesis Honors.
            The source code can be found here. 
    
    

Research Interests

I'm interested in language implementation, compiler writing, formal verification, and novel methods of data representation.
I've written five languages, including three translators, a virtual machine, and a number of other projects in functional and low-level languages.
I'm currently pursuing a Senior Honor's Thesis in Programming Languages on the Verse Calculus with Norman Ramsey and Milod Kazerounian.

Non-programming languages

I speak Portuguese, French, and English. I'm learning Mongolian right now in preparation for the Luce!
Fun fact: the gender of a Monglian word is determined by its vowels. There are masculine and feminine vowels,
and a word can only contain those belonging to one set or the other (plus a neutral vowel И).
The set determines the word's gender!

Personal Scoop

I'm enjoying Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential, Another Crab's Treasure, and Ording's 99 Variations on a Proof.
I've been running and playing soccer more, which has helped with my CS work more than anything.