About

I’m a fourth-year undergraduate at Brown University, concentrating in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. I post regularly to my blog, documenting my new learnings / recent toy programs.

In the past, I worked as an intern at the National Institutes of Health, where I mapped out the rare disease research landscape using graph databases. In the past two summers, I have interned at The Washington Post as a backend developer on the monetization team.

Coding is my favorite hobby! Doing personal projects has given me the ability to quickly orient myself in new languages or frameworks. It’s also made me sharper at reading and debugging unfamiliar code. These are skills that can’t be found in the classroom.

When I’m not sitting at the computer, I enjoy cooking, practicing piano, hiking, and playing tennis.

Let’s get in touch! You can find me at any of my links, grab a copy of my resume, or reach out to me via email at brandon [at] bgong.xyz.

Recent posts

• Skewed loss of language capabilities from semantic dementia
• Studying Chinese
• Padding in C structs
• Packing spheres in leaky boxes
• Tabliss and the system theme