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Machine learning researcher and Rice University ECE Ph.D. candidate (expected Dec. 2026) developing methods to evaluate and improve AI systems. First-author research at EMNLP (Outstanding Paper; Oral), ICLR, and MICCAI (Spotlight) spanning LLM reasoning, statistically rigorous model evaluation, computer vision, and generative imaging. Industry experience building medical-imaging ML models for Phase 3 clinical-trial applications and software for manufacturing R&D.

Education

  1. Aug 2023 – Dec 2026

    Ph.D.

    Rice University · Houston, TX

  2. Aug 2020 – Dec 2023

    M.S.

    Rice University · Houston, TX

  3. Sep 2015 – Jun 2020

    B.S.

    University of California, Davis · Davis, CA

Experience

  1. May 2026 – Aug 2026

    AI/ML Intern, Computer Vision

    Johnson & Johnson R&D · Remote

  2. Jun 2019 – Sep 2019

    Quality Reliability Engineering Intern

    Texas Instruments · Dallas, TX

  3. Sep 2018 – Jul 2020

    Undergraduate Research Assistant

    Yang Research Laboratory · Davis, CA

  4. Jun 2017 – Jan 2019

    Software Development Intern (R&D, Engineering)

    Enovix Corporation · Fremont, CA

  5. Mar 2016 – May 2017

    Undergraduate Research Assistant

    Kovnir Group · Davis, CA