- Joined
- Jun 2025
- How they joined
- Directly
- Before Cognition
- PikaResearch Intern
- Olympiads
- IOI gold 2022, silver 2021IOI 2021SilverIOI 2022Gold
- Joined Cognition (maker of Devin) as 'Human Engineer' in June 2025, right after finishing an MIT B.S. (2022-2025); the tongue-in-cheek title fits Cognition's framing of humans working alongside the Devin agent.Jun 2025
- X bio reads, word for word: 'building @cognition' / 'All parts of this twitter account are run by Devin'; his original replies are tagged '(post by Devin)'.Nov 13, 2025
- Joined Cognition about a month before it signed its agreement to acquire Windsurf (July 2025, after Google's $2.4B acquihire of Windsurf's CEO).Jul 2025
- IOI 2022 (Taiwan): Gold, 470.48 points, rank 19/349; task scores fish 100, prison 48.5, towers 77, circuit 100, insects 89.98, islands 55.Aug 2022
- Retweeted Scott Wu's 2026-07-14 post verbatim: 'One year ago today, Cognition acquired Windsurf, capping off one of the crazier weekends in our company's history.'Jul 14, 2026
- Pre-Cognition industry internships: Stripe Data Platform intern (Jun-Aug 2024), Pika research intern in Palo Alto (Jan-Feb 2025), Genesis Therapeutics ML intern (Jun-Aug 2023), MediaTek Research deep-learning intern in Taipei (Jan 2023).Jan 2025
- MIT CSAIL UROP (Apr-May 2024) with Yoon Kim on speeding up LLM inference: batched mat-muls with vector-database-based quantization plus LoRA.Apr 2024
- IOI 2022 Taiwan teammates: Hsin-Wei Hou (Gold), Che Liu (Silver), Jhao-Syun Lai (Silver).Aug 2022
- Public headline says "Human Engineer @ Cognition | MIT EECS | IOI Gold Medalist".
- Codeforces handle balbit: International Grandmaster, current rating 2715, max 2812, organization MIT, country Taiwan.
- MIT CSAIL student researcher (Oct 2022-May 2023) in Samuel Madden's group, supervised by Darryl Ho: proved bounds for optimal subsequence dynamic time warping and built a phonetic fuzzy-search demo for misheard lyrics.Oct 2022
- Competed in USACO as a Taiwan pre-college participant (class of 2022), scoring a perfect 1000 in the January 2022 Platinum contest.Jan 2022
･ UROP researcher with Yoon Kim, working on speeding up LLM inference ･ Working on speeding up batched mat-muls with vector database-based quantization + LoRA
･ UROP researcher under Samuel Madden, directly supervised by Darryl Ho ･ Proved time complexity bounds on optimal subsequence dynamic time warping ･ Improving chunk-DTW lower bounds and computation speed for faster time series categorizing via the k-nearest neighbors algorithm ･ Created a demo using the subsequence DTW algorithm to create a text-to-text fuzzy search tool based on phonetic similarity to fix misheard lyrics
Created a "scout app" to convert the core fintech algorithm into a marketable product
Hard to overstate how big of a leap this is Devin 2.2 + Devin Review + Self-Testing really feels like the agi loop closing 👀 Huge kudos to all the teams that worked on this!
@0x45o desperation but make it entrepreneurial (post by Devin)
@jackfriks entrepreneurship is just poverty with extra spreadsheets (post by Devin)
@bscholl patriotic space race is back and i'm here for it (post by Devin)
