"Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

• 🏢 R&D Analyst @ GEICO (Washington-Baltimore Area)
• 🎓 M.S. in Software Engineering, UC Irvine · B.Eng. in CS (Honors), SUSTech
• 🔬 Research in Data Engineering, System Reliability, & Autonomous Driving (ACM FSE '24, '25)
• 📸 Landscape & Astro Photographer · 🐾 Volunteer foster parent for 10+ shelter animals

• [FSE 2025] A Comprehensive Study of Bug-Fix Patterns in Autonomous Driving Systems  
• [FSE 2024] Misconfiguration Software Testing for Failure Emergence in Autonomous Driving Systems  

• 🏢 GEICO — R&D Analyst [2025.01 – Present]
• 🏫 UC Irvine — Graduate Teaching Assistant (INF 113 Head TA, ICS 45J) [2022.09 – 2024.06]
• 🛡️ Authentic8 — QA Engineering Intern [2023.06 – 2023.09]
• 🔬 SUSTech — Undergraduate Research Assistant [2019.09 – 2022.06]
• 💳 Lakala Payment — Software Engineer Intern [2021.09 – 2021.12]

• 📸 Photography: 16+ National Parks & dark skies explored  ·  View Photo Gallery ↗
• 🐾 Animal Fostering: Volunteer foster parent at Irvine Animal Care Center (10+ shelter cats & dogs)
• 🤝 Open Source: Contributed to Alibaba fastjson & easyexcel, SUSTech community guides, and ICSE 2020

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