Hey! I'm Nyx.
I build game-playing and game-making agents at Ramen VR (YC S19), the developers of Aura.
Published A Brief History of Learning in Imagination as part of the Amplify Writing Fellowship.
Published Projector Is All You Train with Ramen VR (preprint).
Selected as an Amplify Writing Fellow.
Presented my Inverse RL project to OpenAI researchers as a conclusion to the OpenAI Research Fellowship.
Graduated from UC Berkeley EECS (Honors) in 2.5 years.
Joined V11 and Kairos Society.
Published and presented A Matter of Representation: Towards Graph-Based Abstract Code Generation, a paper written as part of my Summer 2025 internship with Ramen VR, at NeurIPS 2025 DL4C Workshop.
Started the invite-only OpenAI Research Fellowship for undergraduates.
Selected for the ICAPS 2025 LaunchPad Workshop targeted at promising junior researchers (i.e. undergraduate and Master's students) in AI planning.
Published and presented Measuring What Matters: A Framework for Evaluating Safety Risks in Real-World LLM Applications, a paper written as part of my work with the Singapore Government, at ICML 2025 TAIG Workshop. This paper was selected for an oral/spotlight.
Admitted into the Berkeley EECS Honors program with breadth concentration in Emerging Technology Policy.
Started leading Machine Learning at Berkeley (ML@B) as Vice President (until graduation).
Joined BAIR and CHAI as an undergrad ML researcher. I was advised by Dr. Ritwik Gupta and Dr. Cam Allen in Prof. Trevor Darrell's and Prof. Stuart Russell's labs respectively.
Joined ML@B, Berkeley's #1 ML student org.
Matriculated at UC Berkeley. Little did I know that I would find my love for climbing, walking uphill, and Bay Area weather, right here.
Awarded a full-ride, highly selective Singapore government scholarship. An article I wrote about it was requested and published by GovTech Singapore.
Published my first ever ML conference paper, Manga Layout Analysis via Deep Learning, written when I was in high school (Raffles Institution, Singapore).