I’m a fourth-year PhD student in the Computer Science department at the University of Chicago, advised by Aloni Cohen. I’m generally interested in discrete mathematics.
I grew up in Glen Ellen, California and greatly miss the trails, mountains, and wildlife back home. But I love exploring the many neighborhoods of Chicago, running and biking the lakefront, and seeing live performances around the city. I’m obsessed with making the dumbest jokes possible, as frequently as my friends will allow.
I like thinking about questions that are easy to state and hard to solve. Lately I’ve been interested in combinatorial statistics, especially the computational hardness of random optimization problems. I enjoy thinking about fundamental questions stemming from computational redistricting. These questions usually concern Markov chains that sample from the space of balanced graph partitions. I have also written about structured encryption and using cryptography to watermark the outputs of language models.
Before starting my PhD, I spent two years at the MGGG Redistricting Lab at Tufts University, working with Moon Duchin to connect the academic study of computational redistricting with real-world applications.
My office hours for Discrete Mathematics (CMSC 27100) are on Wednesdsays, 10:30-11:30a in JCL Section 3D.
I’m shamelessly copying Kunal Marwaha’s format and style, because I appreciate a minimal and easy-to-update website. I hope to make this place a repository for my research ideas, scattered thoughts, and any other project that would be natural to host online.