MARIA CAIStudent · Builder · Athlete

Click the dark cells

I like turning curiosity into things that actually work.

I'm a student at SCIE who moves between a physics notebook, a soldering iron, a maths olympiad, a paintbrush and a basketball court — and keeps finding that they're all the same kind of problem: a system you can understand, take apart, and make a little better.

What I work on

Physics & Computation

Modelling how the world looks

Writing the physics from first principles and checking it against real measurements.

  • Python
  • NumPy
  • matplotlib
  • radiative transfer
  • Rayleigh + Mie
  • miepython
  • CIE colour
  • AERONET validation
  • BPhO
  • PhysicsBowl
Robotics & Engineering

Machines that sense, decide & move

Closed-loop systems built end-to-end — electronics, firmware and the software around them.

  • ESP32
  • Arduino
  • ESP-NOW
  • servos + solenoids
  • MLX90640 thermal
  • OpenMV vision
  • GPS + PID
  • SolidWorks
  • 3D printing
  • IoT
Maths & Competitions

The problem-solving underneath

The habit that everything else is built on — olympiad training year-round.

  • AMC 10 / 12
  • AIME
  • Euclid
  • BMO
  • USCMO
  • proof + strategy
Art & Humanities

The other half of how I think

Traditional Chinese painting since Grade 1, plus writing about the systems people live in.

  • 国画 gongbi + ink
  • The International Lens
  • essay writing
  • AP Comparative Gov
  • Rawls · Nozick · Sandel