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I am a founding researcher at Trajectory and an incoming PhD student in the Algorithmic Alignment Group at MIT CSAIL. My research focuses on post-trainability and algorithms for continual learning: teaching ML models to adapt to distribution shift and learn new skills over time.

In the past, I completed my Master’s degree at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Prof. Virginia Smith and Prof. Aditi Raghunathan. Prior to that, I studied CS and Mathematics at WPI, supervised by Randy Paffenroth.

As an AI researcher, I’m optimistic about the future. There is a world where we wake up in American homes built in affordable cities, warmed by clean energy, ride e-bikes to high-speed rail stations, zipping from tight-knit communities into metropoles where we collaborate on social work, research, and art.

This world is not a guarantee, and we will have to fight for it! I work on research that I hope will bring us closer to a safe, abundant future.

What You’ll Find Here #

  • Posts: Non-academic and semi-academic writing.
  • Research: Highlights from my current and past academic work.
  • Scrapbook: Perspective drawings of cafes, parks, and street corners.

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