2024 update: I am on the job market! If you think my experience would be a good fit for your organization or institution, reach out! You can find my CV here.

I am a final-year PhD student in Stanford’s CS department, where I’m fortunate to be advised by Chelsea Finn and Christopher D. Manning. The goal of my research is to make foundation models, particularly language models, a more trustworthy and easy to use technology. In particular, I’ve been interested in making language models more factual, up-to-date, and able to understand user intent. I’m also quite interested in scalable oversight as well as improving the reasoning & planning abilities of language models. Much of my PhD has been generously supported by a Knight-Hennessy Graduate Fellowship and a Stanford Accelerator for Learning grant for Generative AI for the Future of Learning.

In the summer of 2022, I was a research scientist intern at DeepMind in London, where I was lucky to spend four months working with Junyoung Chung, Nate Kushman, and Aäron van den Oord.

Before my PhD, I was a research engineer at Samsung’s AI Center in New York City, where I learned constantly from Volkan Isler, Daniel D. Lee, and many other wonderful (and patient) people. As an undergraduate, I completed my thesis under the guidance of H. Sebastian Seung after many hours in the Seung Lab at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. I also competed for Princeton’s varsity men’s golf team.

In my free time, I make music for guitar and voice. I enjoy the outdoors, particularly playing golf, exploring mountains, and SCUBA diving.