Winner of Best Student Paper at CVPR 2024; gave the opening keynote at Biocuration 2025; developed an open-source sparse-autoencoder library; released BioCLIP, a foundation vision model for the entire tree of life; released SELM, work on symmetric encryption using language models; published a paper on pre-trained language model interpretability at EMNLP 2021 BlackboxNLP workshop; won multiple awards at Hack OHI/O.
Research Experience
Interned at Zoom, Meta, SpaceX, Microsoft, and GE Aviation (twice); worked on TicketBay with Salty Software; interned remotely with Zoom over the summer of 2024; started as a Research Scientist Intern at Meta AI in May 2023, working with Kristin Lauter and Francois Charton on using Transformers to attack post-quantum cryptography algorithms.
Education
Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science from Ohio State University, with a minor in German; currently a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at THE Ohio State University, advised by Prof. Yu Su.
Background
Research interests include interpretability, computer vision, AI for cryptography, and various LLM projects. Currently a Ph.D. student at THE Ohio State University, focusing on AI-accelerated data-driven scientific discovery.
Miscellany
Studied abroad in Dresden, Germany for eight weeks; traveled to Kenya for three weeks with the Imageomics crew to broaden understanding of science and gather data for future work; personal interests include travel and exploring new technologies.