2021 MIT Women's Cross Country Roster
Biography
2021:
- Competed in two meets, including her debut where she placed eighth in the White Race of the Connecticut College Invitational with a time of 24:01
- Finished 59th at the NEWMAC Championship in 25:03
Favorite Sports Memory:
- Probably when my high school team won the Asia Pacific Invitational my junior year, and after the last relay event, realizing we had won, all of us ran into the ocean (since the relay was on the beach!) and celebrated
Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- We have a cross country date night event every year before the final races, and we're paired with someone and we all go on a date together and then do a blind-folded Q and A contest. The questions were so funny, and through them we got to know not only our dates but everyone better, and that night I just couldn't stop laughing - it's one of my favorite memories with the team
Off the Trail at MIT:
- Majoring in artificial intelligence and decision making with a minor in astronomy and a concentration in Chinese
-Â Summer researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid's computational neuroscience lab (LNCyC
- Summer Engineering intern at AmadeusCodeÂ
- In my UROP first semester, designed the ML training website for RIskMap JapanÂ
- Since my second semester, I've been UROPing at the Kara Black Hole Group, analyzing black hole outbursts over 20 years to learn more about the geometry and behaviors of the black hole corona
- Was a part of the 2022 NASA RASC-AL MIT team, and helped design a Mars ISRU architecture mission concept
- First place overall and Best in Theme at the 2022 NASA RASC-AL competition
- Board Member of the Infinite Magazine (MIT's student-run fashion & art magazine)Â
- Treasurer of the Film & Video Productions club
-Â Participated in the MISTI-Spain the summer between freshman and sophomore year
High School:
- School record holder in the 1,500m and the 3,000m
- Two-time cross country MVP in 2019 and 2020
- 2020 Track and Field MVP
- 2019 Track and Field Most Improved
- First place in the 2018 and 2019 DODEA Pacific Far East Track and Field Girls 3200m
- First place in the 2019 and 2020 Kanto Plain Finals Track and Field 3200m, along with second place in 2018
- Won the 2020 International School Bangkok Cross Country Invitational
- Won the 2019 Asia Pacific Cross Country Invitational in 2019 while finishing second in 2017 and 2018
- Finished first at the 2018 DODEA Pacific Far East Cross Country meet and the 2019 Kanto Plain XC Finals
- Member of the National Honor Society
- Cross country team captain
- Filmmaking (documentary and short films)
- Human Rights Club Leader
- TEDxYouth@Tokyo Head of PR
- Daruma Art and Literary Magazine Publicity Director
- iGEM competition
- Mentoring at classroom for immigrants in Japan
- Math Excellence Award (2018, 2019 (2x), 2020)
- Science Excellence Award (2020)
- Social Studies Excellence Award (2019)
- Spanish Excellence Award (2018, 2019, 2020)
- Interlochen arts summer program Merit Scholarship (2018, 2019)