William Choi-Kim
About Me
I'm a high-schooler in Cypress, Texas interested in engineering and human longevity. I'm a published first-author in F1000 and I'm currently engaged in an internship studying obesity at Baylor College of Medicine. I founded Hwalgi, an online student-centric literary publication with international reach. I work as a mentor and a student ambassador at Wolfram Research's educational programs, and I've contributed functions to WolframLanguage (Mathematica).
Education
- Cy-Fair High School
- Class Rank: 1/774
- Expected Graduation: 2026
- SAT: 1590 (800 Math, 790 Reading)
- PSAT: 1520 (National Merit Semifinalist)
- Advanced Courses
- Taken APs: Biology (5), Calculus BC (5), English Language (5), Physics C Mechanics (5), Physics C E&M (5), United States History (5), Computer Science A (5), Physics 1 (5), Precalculus (5), Spanish Language and Culture (5), Statistics (5), World History: Modern (5)
- In-Progress AP courses: English Literature, Chemistry, Psychology, U.S. Government, Macroeconomics
- In-Progress College Courses: Multivariable Calculus, Linear Algebra (Lone Star College)
Extracurricular Programs
- Internship with Dr. Rzgar Hosseini (UT Health, Indiana State University) [2023 - Present]
- Building tools in R to run pathway analysis with conjunctive bayesian networks
- Published (first-author) in F1000 and pending approval at Bioconductor
- Internship at Baylor College of Medicine [2025 - Present]
- Studying and analyzing data on obesity using R
- Wolfram Student Ambassador Program [2024 - Present]
- Wolfram Summer Research Program [2024]
- SOM Summer High School Program for Computational Oncology at Johns Hopkins University [2023 - 2024]
- I assisted in statistical analysis and visualization of large sets of bladder cancer patient data using R, submitting an abstract to the 31st Annual Sidney Kimmel Trainee Day
Employment
- Mentor at Wolfram Emerging Leaders Program [2025 - 2026]
- Guiding students through year-long computational research project in online research program hosted by Wolfram Research
- TA at Wolfram Summer Research Program [Summer 2025]
- Guided students through computational research projects over three weeks of intensive in Boston
- Acknowledged in diverse array of final essays: knot theory, biolinguistics, phonetics, ocean current simulation, surfactant chemistry, biochemistry, cellular automata/multiway systems, inverse kinematics, stroke detection, simulated robotics, and chainmail engineering.
Leadership
- Wolfram Emerging Leaders Program [2024 - 2025]
- A yearlong research program and leadership training regimen
- Competitive Math [2021 - Present]
- Founded and began hosting AMC and AIME at Cy-Fair High School [2022 - Present]
- Computer Science Club President and Captain [2025 - 2026]
- National Honor Society Internal Vice President [2025 - 2026]
- Society for Women Engineers Club Representative [2025 - 2026]
- Boy Scouts [2019 - 2024]
- Senior Patrol Leader (48 scouts) [September 2023 - April 2024]
- Eagle Scout [Awarded October 7, 2024]
Non-Profit Organizations
- Founder, Hwalgi
- Recruited volunteers from online platforms and through zero-cost marketing
- Provided editorial services to two dozen published essays
- Wrote code for tech platform from scratch, open-sourced portion as a blogging software offering
- Co-Organizer, TEDxCypress Youth
- Found sponsors for and fundraised among individuals
- Recruited and screened speakers
- Co-Founder, Crafts and Laughs
- Helped found NGO that creates arts and crafts for children in hospitals
- Helped obtain NGO status through Hackclub's HCB
- CTO, Empty Streets
- Built website and fundraising meter for world's largest youth-led anti-human-trafficking organization
Awards
- National Awards
- Scholastic National Gold Medal for Critical Essay [2022]
- AIME Qualification [2022, 2023, 2024, 2025]
- AMC 10 Distinction Award [2022, 2023, 2024]
- State Awards
- UIL Ready Writing State 4th Place [2025]
- Regional Awards
- UIL Ready Writing Regional Champion [2024, 2025]
- Scholastic Regional Gold Key for Critical Essay [2022, 2023, 2024, 2025]
- HP Codewars Houston Advanced Team 5th Place [2025]
- Scholastic Regional Gold Key for Short Story [2022, 2023, 2025]
- UIL 6A District 17 Academic Contest Mathematics 3rd Place / Regional Qualifier [2023]
- Scholastic Regional Silver Key for Dramatic Script [2024]
- Scholastic Regional Silver Key for Digital Art [2023]
- Scholastic Regional Silver Key for Poetry [2023]
- Scholastic Honorable Mention for Poetry [2023]
- Scholastic Honorable Mention for Digital Art [2024]
- District Awards
- UIL Ready Writing District Champion [2024. 2025]
- UIL Mathematics District Runner-Up [2024, 2025]
- UIL Computer Science Team Champion / UIL Computer Science Individual 6th Place [2024]
- Other
- Khula Asmaan Art Competition Shortlist [2025]
- WDAwards Web Design Favorite [2025]
Skills
- Competitive Mathematics
- Distinction in AMC 10
- Four consecutive AIME qualifications [2022, 2023, 2024, 2025]
- Writing / Editing
- Scholastic National Medalist
- Chief Editor for Hwalgi
- Programming
- R
- First-author on a paper on developing an R package, well-versed in package development (.C interface, Bioconductor ecosystem) and data analysis using R
- WolframLanguage
- Well-versed in Mathematica's Chemistry interface and other features, certified as a teaching assistant for WolframLanguage and employed as a mentor
- JavaScript
- Well-versed in serverless architecture (Cloudflare Workers, Functions) and front-end dynamic design
- Python
- Well-versed in backend and API development (Flask, see: smilesdb.org), content automation (Imp, a blog generator)
- Java
- Proficient in competitive programming using Java
- R
- Bilingual in English and Korean
- CAD and Manufacturing
- Proficient in SketchUp and Blender
- Proficient with band saws, scroll saws, CNC machines, 3D printers, sandblasters, and other machine shop equipment.
Service Hours
- 170+ hours
- Reach Unlimited [64 hours]
- Volunteered with individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities
- Played games and did crafts after school at facility
- Worked in administrative offices to help with fundraising items
- Tended greenhouse and assisted in community outreach
- [2025] 25 hours
- [2024] 37 hours
- [2023] 2 hours
- Cy-Fair Helping Hands [17 hours]
- Built soil bins out of brick and mortar as part of my Eagle capstonee project
- Tended community garden for underserved populations
- [2025] 2 hours
- [2024] 15 hours
- National Honor Society [40+ hours]
- Served as Internal Vice President
- Volunteered at churches, middle schools, with high school events, etc.
- [2025] 20 hours
- [2024] 20 hours
- Empty Streets [25+ hours]
- Built website and helped fundraise $15k+ for anti-human-trafficking awareness
- [2024] 25 hours
- Crafts and Laughs [30+ hours]
- Built website and arranged/helped with fundraising and special events
- [2025] 10 hours
- [2024] 20 hours
Projects
- Hwalgi
- A non-profit for publishing student voices on the web - submissions from nations all over the world and 100+ volunteer hours issued
- DOIs issued for every published article
- https://hwalgi.org/
- Monte-Carlo Approximations of Protein Internal Surface Area
- My team and I built a more computationally expedient method for approximating the internal surface area of arbitrary molecules in Mathematica
- Contributed function
- Available manuscript
- Cycles
- A body pattern tracking app that finds trends and relationships between different cycles
- https://trackyourcycles.com/
- Poster
- SmilesDB
- A database of SMILES strings made freely accessible by an open API
- https://smilesdb.org/
- Exploring Isomerism in Coordination Complexes
- This project aims to automate and generalize the process of identifying stereoisomers using Wolfram Language and its Molecule interface
- Contributed function
- Available manuscript
- The Night Before the Test
- Published cram book for AP World History
- Available on Amazon at https://a.co/d/gfSZtQg