I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at University of Wisconsin–Madison, advised by Fred Sala in the Sprocket Lab, where I work on the science of foundation model scaling, data-efficiency, and adaptation to high-impact scientific domains—all with the ultimate goal of developing powerful scientific research agents.
I have completed research internships at Meta’s Llama team (working on scaling laws with Dieuwke Hupkes), Together AI (hybrid language models with Tri Dao), and Microsoft Research (Physics of AGI group with Sébastien Bubeck). I received an honorable mention for the Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship (2025) and was named an MLCommons Rising Star (2023).
My academic path began at Fresno City College before earning my B.S. at UC San Diego where I worked with Gary Cottrell and Sanjoy Dasgupta and M.S. at Carnegie Mellon University with Ameet Talwalkar and Zack Lipton.