I'm an Independent Researcher in the Foundation Interface Lab at UC San Diego currently studying AI-assisted programming via generative UIs with Bryan Min, and previously investigated the agentic coding workflows of experienced developers under the direction of Brian Hempel. I received my BS in Social Sciences from the University of Central Florida with minors in Cultural Anthropology, Political Science, and Sociology. I was able to work with Amy Donley, Pamela Wisniewski, and Jonathan Powell researching applied sociology, human-computer interaction, and computational social science, respectively. I spent my summers completing REUs at the University of Washington Tacoma with Jim Thatcher and Columbia University in Brian Smith's CEAL Lab. In my free time, I'm blogging under Semantic Distance and designing as Self Adjoint Operator.
I've been keeping track of (most of) my application materials for various programs I applied to starting as an undergraduate. Below are the documents I've been saving and I'll update this section as I apply to more programs.
I worked almost every semester in between classes and research, working at companies like ActBlue Technical Services, New America, Swing Left, and the Council on Foreign Relations. Interning across a multitude of roles, I intentionally treated this time as experimental, figuring out what I liked to do best. After graduating, I joined Capital One as part of their CODA 13 cohort to learn full stack web development and successfully graduated after completing Dojo in Cyber Intel. I worked in Cyber IAM and Cyber D&M as a TDP, building features for our internal access portal and data quality management platform, respectively.
