At the convergence of CS, Math, and Writing

I am a PhD student at CMU in the School of Computer Science. My research interest is developing ML algorithms and systems to address complex, real-world problems. As part of the NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision-making, my current focus is ML for emergency management and disaster response. From the theoretical side, I particularly like computational social choice, graph theory, and learning theory.

Prior to CMU, I was a Data Scientist at Amazon, working on abuse detection and upholding trust in the Amazon retail site, part of the Community Trust org. I also worked as a ML Engineer for AWS SageMaker Clarify, which offers bias detection and explainability methods for ML models and datasets hosted on AWS. Before that, I was in the AWS Secure AI Foundations Privacy org in Alexa AI, deploying ML models to detect and redact PII/PD in the Alexa ecosystem.

Before starting at Amazon, I was a Junior Ambassador and Fellow of the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals (CBYX). As a Fellow, I represented the U.S. in Germany for a year-long cultural exchange program sponsored by the U.S. Congress and the German Bundestag. During my fellowship, I was a Research Intern at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems with Krishna Gummadi, focusing on ethical interventions for Machine Learning projects.

I attended George Washington University, graduating with a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics with a minor in Creative Writing. Along the way, I'm grateful to have worked on a variety of projects with some amazing mentors, most in the realm of AI for Social Good:

In my free time, I read incessantly, write poetry + fiction, and learn (foreign to me) languages.

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books I've recently read

Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen: How One Girl Risked Her Marriage, Her Job, and Her Sanity to Master the Art of Living
Forever Undecided: A Puzzle Guide To Gödel
How to Think Like a Mathematician: A Companion to Undergraduate Mathematics
I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography
Edge
Milk and Honey
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
This Side of Paradise
Paper Girls, Vol. 1
What is Not Yours is Not Yours
The Cider House Rules
My Documents
When We Become Weavers: Queer Female Poets on the Midwestern Experience
The Call of the Wild
Ariel