Bio
I am currently a junior at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), majoring in Computer Science + Philosophy. I will graduate early and start my CS PhD at Cornell University this fall (funded by the NSF GRFP).
You can contact me at the following email address: myfan3 {at} illinois {dot} edu.
Interests
My interests are as follows (in order of most recent/level of interest):
- type theory, theorem proving, and formal methods (under Professor Talia Ringer)
- formal epistemology and problem of induction (with Professor Jonathan Livengood)
- computational redistricting (quantifying gerrymandering via cool sampling algorithms)
- reverse engineering
- cryptography
Recent News
April 2024
I was awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP).
March 2024
Our new preprint, "Proof Repair across Quotient Type Equivalences" is now updated on the arXiv (old version).
Dec. 2023
I was invited to the Hausdorff Research Institute of Mathematics's program on the "Prospects of formal mathematics" (I will be in Bonn, Germany from August 4th-16th).
Oct. 2023
Our preprint, "Towards Proof Repair in Cubical Agda" (links to old version) is now on the arXiv.
July 2023
I was awarded the James Scholar Preble Research Scholarship, awarded by the University of Illinois to outstanding honors students involved in research.
June 2023
I was a research intern at NASA Ames for the summer, in the Robust Software Engineering group under the mentorship of Dr. Ivan Perez.
April 2023
I was awarded the Goldwater scholarship, a merit-based national scholarship established by Congress for research contributions and potential in STEM. School news article.
June 2022
I was a software engineering intern at Fidelity Investment’s Center for Applied Technology for the summer.
Hobbies
Food. A personal project of mine is to craft food from first principles. I've been making butter from scratch, with the aspirational goal of beating the artisanal butter found in quality stores. I started a primitive bartering system where my friends and I trade homemade goods that we specialize in (artisanal butter, chocolate chip cookies, pork carnitas, sourdough bread, etc.). Moooo 🐄.
Ham radio. I have a general class amateur radio license from the FCC (callsign: KC1LTV). I use my license infrequently.
Books. I'm currently reading Crime and Punishment and re-reading Dune (although I feel that the quality for Dune drops off in the later books). Book suggestions are welcome (I like most genres).
Last updated on 2024-04-16.
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