Token-Level Control or Just a Better Mean? Isolating the Gains of Adaptive Decoding
Conference on Language Modeling (COLM) 2026 Main track New
About
I am a Computer Science student at the University of Washington. My current work studies how language models learn, represent, and expose structure through tokenization, decoding, and representation geometry. My earlier published work was in computational photography, which was my first route into computer vision and applied AI.
Language Models
Tokenization
Decoding
Representation Learning
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Publications
An Enhanced Algorithm for Automatically Capturing the Desired Moment in Photography
IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) 2025Oral
Planning and Automatically Capturing the Desired Moment in Photography
IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) 2024
Education
2025-present
University of Washington, Seattle
Computer Science, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering.
2023-2025
Everett Community College
Associate of Arts and Sciences in Mathematics, President's List, 4.0 GPA.
2025
High School
Graduated in ninth grade with a 4.0 GPA.
Honors & Awards
2026
Kyril Faenov Endowed Scholarship in Computer Science & Engineering
Awarded July 2026.
2023
Perfect ACT score of 36
Earned at age 11 in September 2023.
2021-2023
USACO Gold Division
Reached Silver in Dec 2021 with a perfect score at age 10, Reached Gold in Feb 2023 at 11.
Patents
Patent information forthcoming.
Age 14 (2025-2026)
Token-Level Control or Just a Better Mean? Isolating the Gains of Adaptive Decoding
Conference on Language Modeling (COLM) 2026 Main track New
2026
Kyril Faenov Endowed Scholarship in Computer Science & Engineering
Awarded July 2026.
Age 13 (2024-2025)
An Enhanced Algorithm for Automatically Capturing the Desired Moment in Photography
IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) 2025Oral
2025
University of Washington, Seattle
Admitted to the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering.
2025
Everett Community College
Completed an Associate of Arts and Sciences in Mathematics with a 4.0 GPA.
2025
High School
Graduated in ninth grade with a 4.0 GPA.
Age 12 (2023-2024)
Planning and Automatically Capturing the Desired Moment in Photography
IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) 2024
Age 11 (2022-2023)
2023
Perfect ACT score of 36
Earned on September 9, 2023.
2023
USACO Gold Division
Reached Gold in February 2023.
Age 10 (2021-2022)
2021
USACO Silver Division
Reached Silver in December 2021 with a perfect score.