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I am an incoming PhD student at MIT EECS, advised by Mitchell Gordon. I received by bachelor’s in Computer Science (BS) and Philosophy (BA w/ honors) with minors in mathematics and history from the University of Washington. In undergrad, I was very fortunate to be advised by Amy Zhang and Ranjay Krishna in CS and Rose Novick in philosophy. I was also mentored by Jared Moore, Quan Ze (Jim) Chen, Sebastin Santy, Matt Wallingford, Carina Fourie, and others.
CS Work
Philosophy Writings
Education
Ph.D., Computer Science — Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-?
B.A., Philosophy with Honors — University of Washington, 2021-2025
Minor in History.
B.S., Computer Science — University of Washington, 2021-2025
Minor in Mathematics.
Early Entrance Program — Robinson Center, University of Washington
Admission to university at 14
News
Undergrad Questions the AI Answer
University of Washington Office of Undergraduate Academic Affairs
UW undergraduate with interdisciplinary AI focus earns fellowship of up to $90,000 for graduate study
University of Washington Office of Undergraduate Academic Affairs
2025 Dean's Medalists, Energized & Inspiring
University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences
For these nationally recognized Allen School undergraduates, research impact is its own reward
University of Washington Allen School News
Recognition & Scholarships
2025
• Fellow, Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
• Awardee, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
• Fellow, Ashar Aziz Presidential Fellowship (MIT)
• Finalist, Hertz Foundation Fellowship
• Gonfalonier (Banner Carrier) for the College of Arts and Sciences, 150th University of Washington Commencement
• UW College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Medal (for the Social Sciences)
• UW CSE Outstanding Senior
• UW Philosophy Department Outstanding Graduating Senior
• UW CSE Best Senior Thesis Award (submitted by co-first author Andrew Shaw)
• Awardee, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
• Fellow, Ashar Aziz Presidential Fellowship (MIT)
• Finalist, Hertz Foundation Fellowship
• Gonfalonier (Banner Carrier) for the College of Arts and Sciences, 150th University of Washington Commencement
• UW College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Medal (for the Social Sciences)
• UW CSE Outstanding Senior
• UW Philosophy Department Outstanding Graduating Senior
• UW CSE Best Senior Thesis Award (submitted by co-first author Andrew Shaw)
2024
• UW Philosophy Department Outstanding Undergraduate Scholar
2023
• CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Finalist
• Mary Gates Research Scholar
• Phi Beta Kappa Scholar
• Philosophy Department Honors
• Mary Gates Research Scholar
• Phi Beta Kappa Scholar
• Philosophy Department Honors
Teaching
Teaching Assistant, CSE [160, 163, 311]
Allen School of CSE, University of Washington, 2022-2025
Intro and intermediate Python programming, discrete math for CS. 7 quarters.
Teaching Assistant, English Composition and Literary Analysis
Robinson Center, University of Washington, 2022-2024
Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Machine Learning
The Coding School, 2022-2023
Academic Service & Volunteering
Reviewer
• 2024 CSCW (Computer-Supported Cooperative Work)
• 2023 NeurIPS Moral Psychology and Moral Philosophy Workshop
• 2023 ICML AI + HCI Workshop
• 2023 NeurIPS Moral Psychology and Moral Philosophy Workshop
• 2023 ICML AI + HCI Workshop
Panelist & Host
• 2024 Allen School Direct Admits, Undergrad Research Panelist
• 2022, 2023 Robinson Center Student Panelist
• 2024 Robinson Center Research Panelist, Student Host
• 2022, 2023 Robinson Center Student Panelist
• 2024 Robinson Center Research Panelist, Student Host
Marketing Manager
Vivek for Redmond City Council, Summer 2025
Managed social media presence and produced social media content for Vivek Prakriya's compaign runnning for Redmond City Council seat no. 2.
Books
Modern Deep Learning Design and Applications
Apress (Springer Nature)
Modern Deep Learning for Tabular Data
Apress (Springer Nature)
Misc. Work
AyahuascaNet: Rigorously Investigating Hallucination in Large Language Models with Hardcore Psychedelic Drugs
SIGBOVIK 2023
How does the AI community pronounce 'epoch'? A semirigorous sociolinguistic survey
SIGBOVIK 2024
ITF;)LM: Innocuous Table Formatting ;) with Language Models
SIGBOVIK 2024
Mobiod Streams
Digital Art
A Novel Approach to Segment Specialized Annotations in Electron Microscopy Images of Glomerular Podocytes
Najafian Lab for Kidney Pathology, UW Medicine
Emergent Language: Independent AI Development of a Language-Like Syntax
Interactive Intelligence Research Group, Paul G. Allen School