His PhD dissertation was the first to identify the issue of data contamination (data leakage) in LLMs, developing several methods to detect and estimate contamination in fully black-box LLMs. His research received media coverage and won several awards, including the Outstanding Graduate Scholarship and the Galileo Circle Scholarship. Published multiple academic papers, including a spotlight paper at ICLR 2024.
Research Experience
Interned at Google Cloud AI Research, Walmart Global Tech, and Harvard Medical School.
Education
Earned a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Arizona, advised by Prof. Mihai Surdeanu.
Background
An AI researcher with interests in Machine Learning, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Natural Language Processing. Particularly interested in stress-testing the “alignment” of LLMs.
Miscellany
Served as a reviewer for top conferences such as AAAI 2026, NeurIPS {2025, 2024}, COLM 2025, ICLR 2025, ACL {2024, 2023}.