2025Stanford University
Ph.D., Computer Science
GPA 4.016. Advisor: Professor Zakir Durumeric. Thesis: Narrative Networks: Investigating Patterns of Influence and Propaganda across International News Outlets. Empirical Security Research Group.
GPA 4.016. Advisor: Professor Zakir Durumeric. Thesis: Narrative Networks: Investigating Patterns of Influence and Propaganda across International News Outlets. Empirical Security Research Group.
GPA 4.016. Advisor: Professor Zakir Durumeric. National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow.
Distinction (Highest Honors). Advisor: Professor Garrett Morris. Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholar, Worcester College.
Distinction (Highest Honors). Advisors: Dr. Riccardo Spolaor, Professor Ivan Martinovic. Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholar, Worcester College.
Highest Honors. GPA 3.982. Advisor: Professor Prateek Mittal. Concentration: Information Security and Privacy. Minors: Applications of Computing; Robotics and Intelligent Systems. Phi Beta Kappa; Tau Beta Pi; Sigma Xi.
Researched and developed rubric-based LLM-as-a-judge evaluators for Microsoft Copilot conversations, assessing task completion, intent satisfaction, reasoning complexity, response quality, and safety failures to improve models, system prompts, and products. Built classifiers and measurement frameworks connecting user feedback and behavior to offline evaluations, identifying representativeness and failure-mode coverage gaps; presented evaluation methodology and strategy to Microsoft AI's CEO.
Researched supervised fine-tuning (SFT) techniques and persona-conditioned prompting for LLM digital twins modeling individual behaviors and beliefs, using verbalized sampling to increase response diversity and reduce behavioral homogenization. Developed and deployed multilingual and multimodal LLM pipelines for content understanding, creator classification, and political content and integrity-risk evaluation across Instagram and Threads to inform recommender systems.
Led research on open-source LLMs, including Google's Gemma, as agents for querying and understanding structured health-related datasets. Built evaluation frameworks for accuracy, safety, and adversarial robustness, with verification layers to detect reasoning failures under distribution shift.
Investigated global misinformation and influence operations; authored seven reports on cross-platform inauthentic behavior and propaganda narratives. Published pieces →
Built a C# framework for the Business Applications Group mobile offline synchronisation tool, scaling it to twice the users while cutting sync time by 75%, and added concurrent row versioning across servers. Validated with seven load and stress tests on a 30-server group.
Designed and shipped a security feature for Gmail Android that analyses outgoing email addresses to reduce user vulnerability, and implemented client-side logic cutting request latency and bandwidth when processing recipients against the backend.
Implemented an action executor in Java for the Google Sheets API v4 within randomised end-to-end security software, extending authorisation test coverage to critical new launch flows. Contributed 52 changes, including 37 unit and 55 integration tests.
Contributed to the Texas Tech Answer Set Prolog codebase, exploring applications to AI and cybersecurity, and designed a Generate-and-Test program identifying de-anonymisation inference leakages in a k-anonymity model. Advised by Dr Rattikorn Hewett.
Wrote the engineering dossier for the Top Gun training instrument and presented it to the Chief Medical Officer of Lexion Medical. Built three Java programs driving a Wiimote interface to teach laparoscopic surgeons ultrasound technique.
AAAI Doctoral Consortium for PhD dissertation
Rising Stars in Data Science — Stanford / UCSD / UChicago
Meta PhD Research Fellowship, Computational Social Science
Worcester College Prize for Academic Excellence, University of Oxford
Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, Worcester College, Oxford — Princeton announcement
Charles Ira Young Memorial Tablet & Medal, Princeton ECE
George B. Wood Legacy Prize, Princeton
Phi Beta Kappa · Tau Beta Pi · Sigma Xi · National Merit Scholar