About Me
Hello! I'm a recent graduate of the University of California, San Diego, with a degree in Mathematics - Computer Science while double minoring in urban planning and dance.
At UCSD, I served as an intern at the San Diego Supercomputer Center and a tutor for the Computer Science Department.
Through my courses, internship, and tutoring, I developed my proficiency in Java, Python and HTML, with the capability to pick up new languages quickly.
With my urban planning minor focusing on GIS, transportation planning, and public transportation, I have gained an appreciation for data science, its role in urban planning to succinctly convey ideas, and the influence of data on our decision-making.
With my proficiency in programming and growing knowledge of the tools and techniques of urban planning,
I want to propel progress with equitable solutions, ensuring a future for the many, and not the few.
Recent Projects
For the second and final project of the introductory GIS class, we were given a much more open-ended task of answering a research question of our choice, with the freedom to choose our own topic and a long list of available resources and data. With my assigned state of Colorado and a two-week deadline, I wanted a topic both relevant and familiar. Given the urgency of climate change and its manifestation in the form of wildfires across my home state of California and the rest of the U.S. West Coast, I wanted my research question to focus on the links between air pollutants as a cause of more severe wildfires as a result of global warming and drier climate. However, the data I planned to use was not formatted correctly for ArcGIS. In this case, the availability of data influenced the question itself, transforming the question to asking if there exists a causal link between wildfire location, frequency and severity on the local population and air quality throughout the year 2023.
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I will preface this post with the fact that this is my first GIS project, a midterm with about a month of guided experience with the software. This post is less of a proud display of my skills, and more of a benchmark of progress, demonstrating how quickly I could pick up the skills needed to create the maps below and serving as a reference for future projects to create a comprehensive walkthrough of my growth and experience with GIS and urban planning.
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Towards the end of my second year at UCSD, I felt a strong sense of peer pressure from friends, family, and classmates to secure a summer internship to gain valuable field experiences in preparation for my future career. I began my search in the middle of spring quarter, but with my time and energy split between classes and tutoring, I missed the deadlines for quite a few internship opportunities, and the few that I did apply for went radio silent shortly after. Career fairs were similarly fruitless with nothing truly grabbing my interest or appealing to my qualifications, as paradoxical as it seems that an internship is hyper-competitive with strict qualifications since the whole point of an internship is to learn new skills you otherwise could not.
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