hi, i'm allen

i'm 23yo, based in South Bay, but moving to SF soon! i just moved back from Taiwan, where I completed 6 months of mandatory military service

i'm currently...

learning machine learning by watching Karpathy's Zero to Hero series and building deep understanding through notebooks with detailed notes, auditing CS 336 and CS 221M, and reading interp and alignment papers from Anthropic and Goodfire
exploring Stanford's campus to find the best study spots (ideally with monitors), secret cozy & quiet places to nap, and occassionally going to SF and working from human capital office as part of their program
reading Theo Baker's How to Rule the World
watching the NBA playoffs, House of Feelings
3 tabling microstakes on Pure Poker and trying to find good home games

neurotech advancements
applying AI in bio and life sciences
meeting cool people at 1517 Summit and Monaco Poker Invitational
celebrating the US Semiquincentennial (fancy name for 250th anniversary) on Jul 4 in DC with family
going to my first wedding in the US and being a groomsman for the first time!
going to Burning Man for the first time, my group and i have no idea what we are doing, advice would be greatly appreciated

most recently I founded and built Codedreams, an AI tutor for iOS devs

before that, I did research with intracortical BCIs at BrainGate

and i worked on cool poker & tech stuff at RF Labs

say hi on X or allensu [at] gatech.edu i always love meeting new ppl!

born 23 yr 8 mo ago in LA, CA 🌴