About
I am a PhD student in Carnegie Mellon’s Statistics and Data Science department. In May 2024, I graduated magna cum laude from Pomona College with a double major in mathematics and philosophy. At Pomona, I primarily worked with Jo Hardin, conducting research in both statistical genomics and data science ethics pedagogy.
Outside of research, I really enjoy teaching statistics and data science. So far, I have been a graduate TA for 36-600: Overview of Statistical Learning and Modeling, and a Head TA for 36-226: Introduction to Statistical Inference at Carnegie Mellon This summer, I will be a TA for the Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Summer Camp and instruct some early lectures on data analysis in R with my cohort-mate, Erin Franke. At Pomona, I served as a peer mentor for various mathematics and statistics courses, as well as a writing course and an introductory genetics course.
Another primary interest of mine is philosophy, particularly (feminist) philosophy of science, ethics, and (social) epistemology. I hope to stay engaged in philosophy and, with that, work to better understand and grapple with the ethical dimensions of statistical technologies while completing my PhD.
Ongoing Research Projects
A shortlist of ongoing research projects (as of July 2025):
Predicting Avoidance Ties in Avoidance Networks Leveraging only the Positive Network between the Same Individuals and Basic Node-Level Characteristics (Advanced Data Analysis project, in collaboration with Nynke Niezink and Eva Jaspers).
Selecting Chip-Seq Normalization Methods from the Perspective of their Technical Conditions (in collaboration with Jo Hardin and Danae Schulz) – recently accepted to Briefings in Bioinformatics.
Analyzing Statistics Students’ Writing Before and After the Emergence of Large Language Models (in collaboration with Erin Franke) – presented progress during the Research Satellite at USCOTS 2025.
Teaching Data Cleaning and Wrangling with R’s
data.tablePackage (also in collaboration with Erin Franke) – presented at the Poster and Beyond Session at USCOTS 2025.
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
Pomona College