About Me

(in about 225 words)

I am currently a PhD Student at Uconn under Professor Shiri Dori-Hacohen, studying how to use AI to detect and combat misinformation. Specifically, I am interested in the expansion and incorporation of Argumentation Mining methods within this domain. Before going back to school, I worked as a Software Engineer at Amazon and a Machine Learning Researcher at defense contractor, Systems and Technology Research (STR). Prior to that I graduated from UMass Amherst with a bachelors in Computer Engineering and Applied Mathematics, where I also completed REUs in a span of fields from logic debugging and eigensolvers all the way to computer vision techniqes within the domain of hyperspectral imaging.



Here is an image of "shaggy" old me :)


Some other fun stuff about me:

  • Always down for a good chess game
  • My two favorite board games are Coup and Catan :D
  • DC > Marvel (inequality only holds if we aren't including the cinematic universes)
  • Favorite technical quote: "variational inference is what you implement while you're waiting for your MCMC to converge" - D. Blei
  • Favorite non-technical quote: "if I weren't crazy, id be insane" - The Joker
  • For Halloween in 3rd grade, I was a stoplight
  • High Variance Bowler
  • Favorite show: The Mentalist
  • Favorite movie: The Dark Knight
  • Favorite anime: Code Geass
  • Avid Overwatch fan (Go Boston Uprising!)
  • Love the Celtics!!!