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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. 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
Agonistic Image Generation: Unsettling the Hegemony of Intention
ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) 2025
arXiv
🏆 UW CSE Best Senior Thesis
Cultural and Linguistic Diversity Improves Visual Representations
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025
Language Models as Critical Thinking Tools: A Case Study of Philosophers
Conference on Language Modeling (COLM) 2024
Confidence Contours
AAAI Human Computation (HCOMP) 2023
🏆 Honorable Mention, Best Paper Award
Philosophy Writings
And then the Hammer Broke: Reflections on Machine Ethics from Feminist Philosophy of Science
Pacific University Philosophy Conference, April 2024
The Wartime State and the Cigarette: Darkness and Temporality in Pale Horse, Pale Rider
The Explicator, Volume 80, 2022 - Issue 1-2, pages 30-33
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
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
2 years
Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Machine Learning
The Coding School, 2022-2023
1 year
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
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
Volunteer Data Scientist
Coronawhy, April 2020 - June 2020
Books
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
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