learning about the world ✧˖°.

through research, classes, and reading







 research 

The Newest Arbiter on the Block: Transitivity of LLM's Ambiguous Preferences

Under Prof. Cynthia Dwork

Quantified the transitivity of LLM preferences in concrete and ambiguous situations, working towards replacing human arbiters with LLMs in fair metric learning

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Fake It Till You Make It: Gendered Effects of Confidence in Early Education

Under Prof. Claudia Goldin & Prof. Larry Katz

Empirical economics research studying the effects of under- and over-confidence displayed in early education settings on later life outcomes across gender lines, using data from the PSID

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UberStable: Improving Driver Equity in the Ride-Sharing Matching Algorithm

Under Prof. David Parkes

Studied how to improve driver income distribution within ride-sharing apps, by simulating and finding improvements for commonly-used stable matching algorithms

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Markov Models for Recidivism Rates

Under Dusty Grundmeier

Created ML-based prediction model for recidivism using mental health characteristics and cross-generational patterns in data

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Fairer Null Models for Gerrymandering

Under Prof. Ariel Procaccia

Engineered a new library to generate fairer null models for gerrymandering graph algorithms, using almost-triangular, almost-planar graphs

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 classes 

Computer Science

Data Structures & Algorithms (CS124)
Systems Programming (CS61)
Machine Learning (CS181)
Algorithms & Their Limitations* (CS120)
Artificial Intelligence (CS182)
Economics and Computation* (CS136)
Optimized Democracy (CS238)
Code, Data, and Art (CS71)
Privacy and Fairness (CS1260)
Independent Research (CS91R)
Abstraction & Design in Computation* (CS51)
Introduction to Computer Science (CS50)

English & Philosophy

Hegel and Marx (Hist 1333)
Creative Nonfiction Workshop (CNFR)
Character-Driven Fiction Workshop (CMFR)
The Age of the Novel (English 151AN)
Great American Novels (English 178)
Happiness (GenEd)
Human Ethics (Phil 18)


Economics

Intermediate Advanced Microeconomics (ECON1011a)
Education in the Economy (ECON980b)
Intro to Micreconomics (ECON10a)

Math / Statistics

Probability* (STAT110)
Statistical Inference (STAT111)
Proof-based Linear Algebra (MATH22a)
Multivariable Calculus (MATH21a)
Complex Analysis (AM104)
Independent Research (AM91R)


Other

Architecture Studio (HAA 96A)
Science of Stress
American Money
Guns in the U.S.: A Love Story
Tradition, Performance, and Culture
Intro to Animation
French 10

* denotes class I have also TF'd for

 reading 

2025

> Worlds I See by Fei-Fei Li
> Lifelong Kindergarten by Mitch Resnik
> Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
> Learning & Decision-Making from Rank Data by Lirong Xia

2024

> Middlemarch by George Eliot
> Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
> Little Dorritt by Charles Dickens
> Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
> Franny & Zooey by J.D. Salinger
> Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
> The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han
> Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
(to be completed soon)