My research interests lie in cultivating better developer experience using concepts from Programming Languages Theory, AI, Software Engineering, and HCI.

My focus as a software engineer is full-stack development with an emphasis on backend and reliable AI-based services.

Some of these efforts include:

• Statically contextualizing LLMs with typed holes and semantic information, improving code completion accuracy and token efficiency.
• Decoupling the LSP client from the editor to efficiently feed relevant context to the LLM.
• Implementing new language server protocols and editor features to facilitate LLM-driven development, even for low-resource languages.
• Writing portable, complex evaluation suites using custom types over primitive types.
• Formally verifying critical operations such as SQL query rewrites.
• Creating AI-based tools for developers.

• 🚀 I'm a founding engineer at Ace AI, creating the cloud-based infrastructure for the organization and working on core AI services such as PII cleaning, synthetic data generation, and codebase analysis.
• 👨‍💻 I'm a research software engineer and a student research assistant in the Future of Programming Lab at the University of Michigan, creating ChatLSP (the augmented language server protocol for LLM-friendly methods) and researching static contextualization of LLMs and the further developer tooling ecosystem. Read the paper here.
• 👨‍💻 I'm a student research assistant in the Michigan Intelligent Programming Lab at the University of Michigan, formally verifying SQL rewrite rules using the Lean theorem prover.
• 👨‍💻 I worked as a full-stack software engineer at the Educational Technology Collective Lab at the University of Michigan School of Information, working on LLM-based educational technology.
• 📰 I worked as a Managing Online Editor at The Michigan Daily, leading a team of 20 engineers. Previously, I was a software engineer working on internal tools, backend, and infrastructure.
• 🫡 I was a squad leader of the Computer Emergency Response Team as a Sergeant in the Republic of Korea Army, managing servers and carrying out field infrastructure missions.
• 〽️ I'm a senior majoring in Computer Science at the University of Michigan College of Engineering.

• Developer tools and environments
• Programming languages
• Language servers
• AI, ML, and LLMs
• Functional Programming
• Backend web development
• Educational technology, and the theory of how we learn
• Setups (ergonomics, hardware, etc.)