👨🏾🎓 Hello! I am a Computer Science PhD candidate at UCLA with Prof. Yizhou Sun and Prof. Kai-Wei Chang.
☕ My work spans machine learning, mathematical theory, social justice, and community organizing. Broadly, I care about just and inclusive approaches to graph machine learning and natural language processing, including social fairness, ethics, and harms. My PhD research focuses on the theoretical foundations of social unfairness in graph neural networks; I am particularly interested in leveraging spectral graph theory and statistics to characterize how structural properties of graphs contribute to algorithmic unfairness. I am further a core organizer of Queer in AI, through which I research how AI impacts queer communities and advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights in AI policy.
🏳️🌈 I care deeply about the inclusion of LGBTQIA+ individuals and disabled and neurodivergent folks in AI research. In my free time, I hike, run, spend as much time as possible with human and non-human animals alike, and play the ukulele!
✉️ Please reach out! Especially if you're looking for a community of queer and trans and/or neurodivergent individuals in AI. I'd be happy to talk and help out in any way I can 😊
PhD, Computer Science, Amazon Science Hub Fellow, NSF MENTOR Fellow, Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellow
Sept. 2021 -- Present
University of California, Los Angeles
BS, Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude
Sept. 2018 -- Mar. 2021
University of California, Los Angeles
Nov 2019 -- Present, UCLA Scalable Analytics Institute, Researcher
Jul 2020 -- Present, UCLA NLP, Researcher
June 2024 -- October 2024, FAIR Cost and Alignment, Research Intern
August 2022 -- November 2022, FAIR Society and Responsible AI, Research Intern
May 2022 -- August 2022, Microsoft Research FATE, Research Intern
Jun 2021 -- Sep 2021, Snap, Inc., Privacy Research Intern
Mar 2021 -- Jun 2021, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, AllenNLP, Research Engineering Intern
Jun 2020 -- Sep 2020, Microsoft Corporation, Software Engineering Intern
Jun 2019 -- Sep 2019, Get Heal, Inc., Software Engineering Intern
I am fortunate to mentor brilliant students: