Miscellaneous
Fun Facts
- Outside CS, I am a big fan of many things: dogs and cats, the viola,
singing, J-POP, board games, baking, memes, and more!
Specifically, I enjoy listening to the wonderful band
Official HIGE DANdism and the
brilliant artist Ado. These days,
I'm reading mystery novels by Keigo
Higashino
and Miyuki
Miyabe.
- My undergrad thesis in Music was written about Johann Nepomuk Hummel,
a composer contemporary of Beethoven, and his role in cultivating the
improvisatory Fantasie and Potpourri musical genres.
You can read it here.
- A performance that I did with some very cool people was featured in a video on Swarthmore's youtube channel!
- The full first movement is featured here, accompanied by a rare publically available picture of me playing a musical instrument.
- I have perfect pitch! This means that I can identify musical notes without any references.
- I was on the Varsity Tennis team for all four years of high school, and somehow this surprised all of my friends in college.
- If you take the first letter off of my last name, it becomes an element of a nonregular language - the language of palindromes!
Translations
Sometimes I put my bilinguality to test by translating my favorite songs.