about

📷 NAC ICPC 2022, Team UIUC! I have better hair now, I promise

who is this guy?

I’m Sean, nice to meet you! I graduated in 2021 with a dual degree in Linguistics and Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I’m a retired competitive programmer, theoryhead, and am interested in ancient languages. I’m always trying new things – I used to speedcube (here’s my WCA profile); now I’m trying to learn a style of dance known as popping.

I’m currently working with Professor Tandy Warnow in the CPHL group to develop better algorithms to infer language family trees. In Summer 2024, I was busy improving the markets as a software enginner intern at Optiver Δ, and am now there as a full-time software engineer.

I’m a bilingual native speaker in both Mandarin Chinese and English, and can hold a conversation in Japanese; I’ve also taken a semester of Hittite from the wonderful Prof. Shosted at UIUC.

What I’ll write here and in what language are both TBD - I hope you’re as excited as I am for what’s to come!

Here’s my résumé…

Education #

B.S. Computer Science, UIUC, 2021-2025 (Expected)
B.A. Linguistics, UIUC, 2021-2025 (Expected)
Maths & Science Gifted Program, Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School, 2018-2021

… For more information, please feel free to take a look at my actual résumé!