Bio

I’m a sixth-year PhD student at MIT CSAIL, co-advised by Jacob Andreas and Josh Tenenbaum. I study language models through the lens of Bayesian inference, with a focus on uncertainty, information seeking, and structured reasoning.

I’m especially interested in AI for science. In summer 2026, I worked with the AI research team at Edison Scientific on post-training language models for uncertainty calibration and experimental design.

From 2019 to 2021, I was a senior/founding machine learning engineer at Reverie Labs. I led a multi-target drug-discovery collaboration with Roche and Genentech and helped invent a cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor with therapeutic applications to blood and brain cancers. While at Reverie, I also published some of the first work pretraining chemical foundation models (ChemBERTa and ChemBERTa-2).

In 2018, I completed my undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Mind, Brain & Behavior at Harvard College. My senior thesis, Learning Interpretable and Bias-Free Models for Visual Question Answering, was advised by Sasha Rush and received the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize.

In 2017-2018, I also completed two internships at Google Brain (now Google DeepMind), where I worked on TensorFlow and Google Cloud OCR. Over the two summers, I completed both a traditional Software Engineering (SWE) internship and Google’s highly-selective Associate Product Manager (APM) internship.

My research has been published at ICLR, NeurIPS, COLM, CogSci, and Nature Human Behaviour, and has been featured by Scientific American, MIT News, VentureBeat, Forbes, the American Chemical Society, and The Harvard Crimson. See selected press coverage.

Since 2023, I have co-chaired SIGTBD, an annual conference for CS research of debatable taste that is a storied tradition at MIT CSAIL. I am the inventor of stone, the first monolithically-typed programming language, presented at SIGTBD 2026.

Outside research, I enjoy playing and composing music. I’m a trained jazz guitarist and perform with the MIT Chamber Music Society Jazz Combos and in bars around Boston. I also like to sail and row boats on the Charles River and have various certifications from the MIT sailing pavilion.