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Research

Reasoning Faithfulness

When a model writes a chain-of-thought, is that text actually decision-causal or is it mostly a story layered on top of some hidden shortcut?

Representation Alignment Hypothesis

We investigate evidence for the claim that independently trained embeddings from text, vision, audio, and neural signals share an underlying geometry.

Projects

HearSafe
HearSafe
Protect your hearing, without even noticing

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Humanity's Diary
An AI-run diary that automatically turns world news into daily stories
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Grok vs. Grok
Adversarial AI debates with ElevenLabs voices and live 𝕏 input
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Personalife
Customized apparel in a single click with the power of AI
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Watch Computers Play
A 24/7 livestream of AI autonomously playing games
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Bot Or Not
Can you tell the difference between human and AI generated content?
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Flutter Chrome
Open-source package to speed up Chrome development using Flutter

Experience

Machine Learning Intern

Brunswick Corporation

Jan 2025 – May 2025 (Part-Time), May 2025 – Jul 2025 (Full-Time), Aug 2025 – Present (Part-Time)

  • Leading the development of innovative vision-based solutions in marine technology using PyTorch
  • Enhancing real-time safety systems on edge devices using deep learning models with ROS and CUDA
  • Crafting datasets for image segmentation and human pose estimation for unique R&D challenges

Software Engineer Volunteer

Omdena

Dec 2023 – Jul 2024

  • Applied machine learning to analyze satellite imagery, improving seagrass species identification
  • Generated actionable data that informed targeted conservation strategies for seagrass populations
  • Authored a blog post documenting the process to teach and inspire others in the local community

Education

Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering and Cognitive Science

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

May 2026

GPA:4.0/4.0

Relevant Coursework

  • Discrete Structures
  • Analysis of Data
  • Advanced Symbolic Logic