education
S.M. in Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA, USA
Advised by Dylan Hadfield-Menell
S.M. in Technology Policy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA, USA
Advised by Dylan Hadfield-Menell
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
New York University Abu Dhabi · Abu Dhabi, UAE
Advised by Saif Jabari and Matthew Karau
professional experiences
Applied Research Scientist
Alinia AI · New York City (Remote) · Aug 2024 – Present
Designing and building evaluation systems to improve reliability, alignment, and performance of language model deployments.
Skills: AI Evaluation · Applied Research · LLM Post-Training · Dataset Development
Graduate Research Assistant
MIT CSAIL Algorithmic Alignment Group · Cambridge, MA · Mar 2023 – May 2024
Researched decentralized evaluation frameworks for algorithmic systems with a focus on language models.
Skills: AI Alignment · User Research · AI Policy · AI Evaluation
Chief Executive Officer
MIT Science Policy Review · Cambridge, MA · Oct 2023 – Jul 2024
Oversaw journal operations for Volume V and led transition to a new digital platform.
Skills: Project Management · AI Policy · Programming
Software Engineer Intern
Waymo · San Francisco, CA · May 2023 – Aug 2023
Improved safety metric reliability through probabilistic updates in simulation testing.
Skills: Gaussian Process · Statistics · Simulation
Graduate Research Assistant
MIT Schwarzman College of Computing · Cambridge, MA · Jan 2022 – Feb 2023
Developed and evaluated Responsible AI training curricula for cross-functional deployment in industry.
Skills: User Research · AI Policy · Responsible AI
Software Engineer Intern
Waymo · San Francisco, CA · May 2022 – Aug 2022
Built dataset infrastructure for simulation evaluation pipelines.
Skills: C++ · Parallelisation · Evaluation Infrastructure
Postgraduate Research Fellow
New York University Abu Dhabi · Abu Dhabi · Sep 2020 – Aug 2021
Studied bias propagation in recommender systems.
Skills: Recommender Systems · Data Analytics · Simulation