CS @ USC | Incoming SWE Intern @ NVIDIA | Published Researcher | 4x Hackathon Winner
Sophomore studying Computer Science at USC Viterbi. Incoming Software Engineering Intern at NVIDIA building agentic AI. Published researcher at ICWSM 2025. Selected for selective quant discovery programs such as Jane Street FOCUS and Hudson River Trading – Inside HRT.
First-generation Mexican-American from Azusa, California.
I also bench 225 now. and still play soccer...
Voice-controlled Claude agent that operates a real iPhone — built for blind and low-vision users. Hold the Action Button, speak a task, watch Claude take over any app (LinkedIn, CVS, your bank) while AVSpeechSynthesizer narrates every step. 20+ tools, CoALA-style memory stack, prompt caching, 10–100× action-latency reduction via direct HTTP to Maestro's XCTest runner.
🥉 3rd Place — Claude Builder Hackathon @ UCLA, April 2026
An immersive 3D portfolio built as an interactive auto body garage. Visitors explore my work by clicking on garage objects — smooth camera fly-ins, GPU-tier quality scaling, and demand-driven rendering (0fps when idle).
Live at bryanram.com
Award-winning agentic AI platform for cost segregation. Multi-agent vision pipeline (Grounding DINO → SAM2 → GPT) with IRS-grounded RAG system. 2 paying customers from top-5 firms.
Won LavaLab Demo Night F'25 (Best Traction)
Quantitative fantasy sports analytics. Poisson modeling, 100k-run Monte Carlo simulation, GARCH(1,1) volatility forecasting, and cross-platform arbitrage engine.
78% win rate — turned $10 into $3,000
Agentic procurement co-pilot built at Caltech's HackTech. Event-driven LangChain agent with intent classification and multi-step reasoning. Invited by Dryft to SF Neo offices for post-hackathon collaboration.
1st Place Dryft Challenge @ Caltech HackTech
iOS-Agent: Open Research Platform for Physical Mobile GUI Agents — USC ISI · Jan 2026 – Present
First open research platform for autonomous AI agents on physical iOS. 22+ tool primitives, first autonomous multi-step drag on iPhone, 3.5× speedup on 15-step agent tasks (88s → 24s) via context compression, direct XCTest HTTP, and prompt caching.
EDTok: A Multimodal Eating Disorder TikTok Dataset — Accepted to ICWSM 2025 · arXiv:2505.02250
LLM-assisted pipeline for building the first multimodal eating disorder dataset from TikTok content.
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| USC ISI · Research Intern iOS-Agent (current) · EDTok @ ICWSM 2025 |
Amazon × USC · Research Intern LLM Safety (Jan 2026 – Present) |
USC Viterbi · CS Sophomore |
| Company | Role | Highlight |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA | Incoming SWE Intern | Building Agentic AI — Summer 2026 |
| Hudson River Trading | Undergraduate Fellow | Inside HRT — Algorithm Development (Quantitative Research) Track, May 2026 |
| Jane Street | Undergraduate Fellow | FOCUS '25 (1 of 14) · UNBOXED '24 (1 of 37) |
Full list on bryanram.com.
12 Hackathons. 4 Wins. Coast to Coast.
| Event | School | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 🏆 Claude Builder Hackathon 2026 | UCLA | 3rd Place — Agentic Automation on iOS |
| 🏆 HackTech 2025 | Caltech | Winner — 1st Place Dryft Challenge |
| 🏆 HackHarvard 2024 | Harvard | Winner — Best Use of Terraform |
| 🏆 AstroHacks | — | Winner — Gold Medalist |
| YHack Spring 2026 | Yale | Completed |
| MITHacks | MIT | Completed |
| TreeHacks | Stanford | Completed |
| MIT iQuHACK | MIT | Completed |
| HackPrinceton | Princeton | Completed |
| YHacks Fall 2024 | Yale | Completed |
| PennApps XXV | UPenn | Completed |
| UC Berkeley AI Hackathon | UC Berkeley | Completed |
| Event | Result |
|---|---|
| SkillsUSA (State) | 🥉 Bronze — 3rd best engineering project in CA |
| FIRST Robotics (Regional) | Semifinalist — Top 5 of 32 teams |
Languages
AI/ML
Web
Backend & Cloud
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