🏆 Awards
🏆 Winner - Stanford XR Hackathon, Snapchat AR Prize
Won Snapchat’s AR Spectacles Prize for developing the world’s first multiplayer AR game for Snap’s Spectacles AR glasses, “Rune Wars,” that lets you play with your friends in a magical spell-casting battle. https://devpost.com/software/treejans-two-trojans-two-trees 2024.
🏆 Winner - MIT Reality Hack, Best in Augmented Productivity
Won “Best in Augmented Productivity” for creating a Air Traffic Control (ATC) simulator mixed reality app. https://devpost.com/software/c-r-a-s-h-critical-runway-assistance-for-safe-handling 2024.
🏆 Winner - Stanford XR Hackathon, Best in AI
Won “Best in AI” for creating a VR app that lets you ask questions to historical figures from different time periods. https://devpost.com/software/forward-to-the-future 2023.
🏆 Winner - Outstanding Young Pole Award
Awarded by the Polish Consulate and Teraz Polska Foundation. “Wybitny Polak.” 2023.
🏆 Winner - HackSC
Won Best App in the Global Economy track for created an AR restaurant menu app that visualizes photogrammetry food items. https://devpost.com/software/new-world-order 2023.
🏆 Winner - MIT Reality Hack, Best Shareable Experience
Won Best Shareable Experience for creating a VR language learning app. https://devpost.com/software/vrlingo 2023.
🏆 Winner - Niantic Lightship + AR House Challenge
Created an AR Time Machine app with Niantic Lightship VPS (Visual Positioning System), selected as the best demo in the AR House showcase. 2022.
🏆 Winner - Stanford TreeHacks
Won Stanford TreeHack’s Accessibility Prize. In 24 hours my team made a VR kart racing game to make music composition more accessible and fun. https://devpost.com/software/carscendo 2022.
🏆 1st Place - AR House Hackathon
24 hours to develop an AR experience for Halloween. Created “Happy Pool-oween!”, an AR game in the pool where players use a pool noodle to fend off sea monsters that emerge from the pool. Won official Snapchat swag. 2021.
🏆 1st Place - USC League+ Case Competition
My team had to propose a solution to the logistical challenge of sourcing more homegrown talent in North American Esports to make the region more successful. The task involved combining business development, case study analysis, and design thinking skills to conceive and pitch a solution to a panel of industry judges in just 24 hours. 2021.
🏆 Nextant Spirit Prize for VR/AR Social Impact - For “Outstanding Contributions to Lifting Humanity and Inspiring Others”
The Nextant Prize is considered the "Nobel Prize of VR/AR". Presented by the Virtual World Society.
Awarded at the the 10th Anniversary of Augmented World Expo (AWE). 2019.
"VWS Nextant Prizes are awarded annually to persons whom others can turn to for inspiration, guidance, and role modeling, and whose compassion is their compass to guide their passion for building the future. The Nextant Prize is like the Nobel Prize that is related to the development and application of virtual reality and related technology to lift mankind."
🏆 1st Place for Best VR App
Juried competition, Upload VR. 2017.
🏆 Principal's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chinese Language
Awarded Certificate of Merit, Principal's Award for Outstanding Achievement, Chinese Language School of Southern California. 2017.