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I am a PhD student and NSF Graduate Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and currently a research intern with the Computational Social Science group at Microsoft Research NYC. My advisor is Aaron Clauset.
My research is highly interdisciplinary, where I combine mathematics with my experience as a software engineer to study important issues facing society. I also love making mathematical visualizations.
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Pronouns: he/him.
Upcoming
- (August, 2022) Honored and excited to join the Human Rights Data Analysis Group as a summer fellow.
- (July, 2022) I will be giving two talks at IC2S2 in Chicago, and participate in the SFI Complexity-GAINs International Summer School in Vienna.
Recent news
- (June, 2022) Passed my comps! Gave a talk and a poster at the International Conference on the Science of Science & Innovation in DC and a talk at the SoCG media exposition virtually in Berlin (link to SoCG paper).
- (May, 2022) New preprint: The illusion of predictability in common scientific visualizations. Our paper Subfield prestige and gender inequality among U.S. computing faculty was accepted for publication in the Communications of the ACM. I enjoyed attending the Santa Fe Institute science of science workshop.
- (April, 2022) New preprint: Labor advantages drive the greater productivity of faculty at elite universities. I have returned to the Computational Social Science group at Microsoft Research NYC for a research internship.
- (March, 2022) I enjoyed attending both the Atlanta Academy on Science and Innovation Policy and the Aspen Center for Physics Winter Conference on the Dynamics of Social Interactions.