About Me
Grants and Honors
Graduate
Fellowship, Hasso Plattner Institut Research Center in Machine Learning and Data Science at UCI, 2023
Noyce Fellow, The Irvine Initiative for AI, Law, and Society - UC Irvine, 2022
Regents Fellowship - UC Santa Cruz, 2018
Deep Mind Scholarship for DPhil at the University of Oxford, 2018 [Declined to come to UCSC]
Research Funds, Clare Hall - University of Cambridge, 2017
Undergraduate
Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research, 2017
Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award, 2017
Departmental Citations - Computer Science; Philosophy, 2017
Provost's Award, 2013-2017
Conference Grants, Philosophy Department, 2017
Conference Grants, Computer Science Department, 2017
Travel Grants, Philosophy Department, 2016
Pamela J. Fair Undergraduate Scholarship for Leadership in Engineering, 2014
John E Rowland Engineering Scholarship, 2014
Dean's List, Fall 2013, Winter 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016.
Education
In progress.
Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering, 2021 [transferred]
Master of Philosophy in Advanced Computer Science, 2018
Bachelor of Arts and Science in Philosophy and Computer Science, 2017.
summa cum laude.
Bio
I worked for three years (2018-2021) under the supervision of Professor Phokion Kolaitis, in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where I was supported by the Regents Fellowship (2017-2018) and GSRs possible due to this NSF grant. My research was mainly on Computational Social Choice and complexity theory. My Erdős number is 3 (Paul Erdős → Bruce Lee Rothschild → Phokion Kolaitis → Me).
I was a post-graduate student in the Faculty of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge till July 2018 where I was researching definability and learning on sparse structures under the supervision of Professor Anuj Dawar .
I graduated summa cum laude in Computer Science as well as Philosophy at the University of California, Davis. My dissertation comprised of two parts - philosophy, and computer science, each supervised by professors in the respective departments. The late Professor G. Aldo Antonelli and Professor Elaine M. Landry supervised the former, and Professor Norman Matloff and Professor David Doty supervised the latter. UC Davis generously supported me for four years with many awards and scholarships including the Provost's Award (2013-2017). I was awarded the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research (2017), the Outstanding Student of the Year (2017), and departmental citations by the Computer Science and the Philosophy departments.