Computer Science

Biography

I hold a bachelor's degree in computer science & mathematics from a small liberal arts college, a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, a year of experience at the UAF Geophysical Institute, and a summer robotics engineering internship at a circular manufacturing startup. Some of my favorite coursework has been in digital logic, data structures, and computer architecture & organization. 

CS Research

My first research internship with Professor Aaron Williams culminated in honors awarded for my bachelor's senior thesis and a publication in the European Journal of Combinatorics; my later research with Dr. Williams was also presented at the 33rd Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry in 2021. My research on the dynamics of biomimetic neural networks with Prof. Harold Hastings culminated in a presentation at the International Conference on Applications in Nonlinear Dynamics in 2016. After that, my co-author presented our research on transfer learning at the Fall Western Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society (#1153) in 2019. Next, I presented my research in low-resource natural language processing with Prof. Mike Izbicki at the 2019 Southern California Natural Language Processing Symposium. My current interests are in data management and security. 

Values

Broadly speaking, I value the well-being of the universe and our future. I aim to advance these ends by solving problems that matter.