I am a Ph.D. student in CS at University of Wisconsin–Madison where I am advised by Fred Sala along with my many talented colleagues in the Sprocket Lab.
This past Fall, I interned with the Llama Generative AI team at Meta in London, where I worked with Dieuwke Hupkes on language model pretraining and evaluation. This past Summer, I interned at Together AI in San Francisco with Tri Dao, where I worked on hybrid language models. In Summer 2023, I interned with the Physics of AGI research group at Microsoft Research led by Sébastien Bubeck, where I also worked on language models.
Before starting my Ph.D., I had the pleasure of working with Ameet Talwalkar and Zack Lipton during my M.S. in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University. As an undergraduate, I was extremely fortunate to work with both Sanjoy Dasgupta and Gary Cottrell at the University of California, San Diego. Prior to all of this, I was a community college student at Fresno City College, where I was lucky enough to learn calculus, linear algebra, and C++ from Greg Jamison.
In 2025 I received an honorable mention for the Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship and in 2023, I was named an MLCommons Rising Star. I have also been awarded the Prove AI and UnifyID AI Fellowships in 2021 and 2019, respectively.
