russell jiang

data science @ unsw · tutor · amusa

first-year data science student at UNSW Sydney, working somewhere in the overlap of statistics, computing, and decision-making. i tutor students across STEM and beyond, turning exam panic into working method. away from the screen i'm a clarinettist and saxophonist, and a guitarist on a good day.

01 background

degree

B. Data Science & Decisions @ UNSW · year 1 of 3

editor

VS Code, with recurring nvim ambitions

instruments

clarinet · tenor sax · telecaster

on repeat

yorushika · jpop/jrock that survives the practice room

02 interests

• ▸causal inference, and models that can explain themselves
• ▸game theory, and the equilibria people actually play
• ▸teaching as debugging: finding the exact line where understanding diverges
• ▸how good typography quietly does half the work
• ▸small, sharp CLI tools and whatever's in people's dotfiles
• ▸interfaces that load instantly and never animate without a reason
• ▸keyboards with the right amount of click
• ▸chamber music — where no one's hiding in the back row
• ▸transcribing things by ear that have perfectly good sheet music
• ▸notebooks, note-taking systems, and the graphs that form between ideas
• ▸training like this site is designed: high intensity, low volume, nothing wasted
• ▸a properly constructed bowl of pho