Undergraduate researcher at the University of Texas at Dallas since August 2022, with Phi Kappa Phi and Collegium V Honors. His research centers on language models — how they represent meaning, where they generalize, and where they break — with broader interests connecting machine learning to questions about cognition and scientific discovery. He has held a DAAD RISE research internship in Germany and a policy-oriented internship at CSET, alongside applied work in computer vision, software engineering, and ML for materials and scientific text. He teaches and grades introductory CS courses and is active in student organizations and outreach.

Research Interests

• Language models and the structure of meaning they learn — including representation analysis, generalization, and behavioral evaluation of frontier systems.
• Connections between large language models and human language processing, drawing on tools from computational linguistics and cognitive science.
• Adjacent interests include machine learning for scientific and patent text, ML for materials science, and fairness and representation evaluation in high-stakes AI systems.

Honors and Awards

• 2026 DAAD RISE Scholarship — $5,000
• 2026 Undergraduate Research Scholarship Award (URSA) — $500
• 2026 Undergraduate Research Scholarship Award (URSA) — $500
• 2025 Barry Goldwater Scholarship — $7,500
• 2025 Undergraduate Research Scholarship Award (URSA) — $500
• 2024 Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Fellowship (URAP) — $4,500
• 2024 People’s Choice Award, Association for Computing Machinery Projects
• 2024 Leland Dillaha MSEE ’97 Undergraduate Scholarship — $1,000
• 2022 National Merit Scholarship, UT Dallas — $3,000