At fifteen, I walked onstage to play all of Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto, the piece pianists call the Everest of the repertoire. Before I built anything, I spent thousands of hours at a piano. That part of the story, from my first lesson at nine to Carnegie Hall and the United Nations, is here.

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A flatworm that regrows its own head made me ask why we age at all. Two years later, that question is a university study testing whether yeast extract can slow aging in mammals, and I'm the one who started it

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Every time a foster child changes homes, they can lose their school, their friends, even their belongings. At fourteen, I founded EverEverest to give them something that moves with them. Today it's fourteen student-led chapters from California to Chicago, Seattle, and Vancouver, and five free online programs taught by faculty from Berklee, Stanford, and MIT. Music is how I fund it: 48 benefit concerts, two festivals co-produced with the Opus Music Foundation, where I serve as President, and three FosterLove Galas that together raised over $3 million。 In 2026 I was named a Gloria Barron Prize winner. It all rests on one belief: every foster child deserves knowledge, skills, and dreams that no placement change can take away.

Writing, Athletics & Hobbies:" Ask me about any Pokémon and I can probably tell you its type, its best moveset, and why it matters. I won my regional championship in National Dex Ubers on Pokémon Showdown and competed at the 2023 Pokémon World Championships. Away from the screen, I'm a champion swimmer and a Taekwondo black belt. I'm also a writer: a YoungArts national winner in writing and a Scholastic Art & Writing Awards National Silver Medalist, with poetry published in Effort and Achievement (努力与成果), the official anthology of the 16th Lu Xun Youth Literature Award. I write in the space where science, music, and justice meet, because those are the places I live. I speak English, Chinese, and Hebrew, and I'll travel anywhere with good food.