I am a Ph.D. student in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, where I work with Duncan Watts in the Computational Social Science Lab and Phil Tetlock with the Adversarial Collaboration Project.

My dissertation focuses on metascience. Specifically, I study how empirical scholarship can fall into “Narrative License,” favoring simple stories over evidentiary restraint, and I explore this at scale through computational analysis, experiments, and survey research. I also explore methodological reforms to improve science communication, such as adversarial collaborations, Open Science, and AI-integrated workflows.

Additionally, I have a long-standing research interest in how people think about and prepare for the future, focusing on both the individual (e.g., healthy habits) and societal levels (e.g., collective attitudes, reducing existential risks). Much of this work is conducted with my undergraduate advisor, Peter Todd.

Recently, I've been fascinated by agentic workflows and have been building a range of projects, which I'm beginning to feature on my projects page. Learning how to work effectively with LLM agents is the top skill I'm working to develop. I follow Andrej Karpathy's methodologies.

Before the PhD, I taught middle school math through Teach For America. Prior to that, I studied Cognitive Science at Indiana University.

Outside of scholarship, I love traveling, rock climbing, reading, and long-distance running. My best effort is a 100-mile ultramarathon in 16:35:58—though I got rhabdomyolysis after that, so I'm toning it back.