Talks
Towards a Geometric Understanding of Language Model Alignment and Reasoning
IAS Frontiers Conference on Geometry, Dynamics, and Learning, Nanyang Technological University, September 2026
Pulling Back the Curtain on the Voting Booth (video)
DEF CON 34, Voting Village, August 2026
Towards a Geometric Understanding of Language Model Alignment and Reasoning
Mind & Machine Alignment Summit, Ohio State University, July 2026
Towards a Geometric Understanding of Language Model Alignment and Reasoning
Algorithms Seminar, Google Research, March 2026
A Geometric Perspective on LLM Safety and Alignment (video)
Center for Information Technology Policy Seminar, Princeton University, December 2025
Fair Polylog-Approximate Low-Cost Hierarchical Clustering
Junior Theorists Workshop, Northwestern University, December 2024
Distorting the Vote: How Metric Spaces Shape Elections
JAMS Seminar, University of Maryland, November 2024
The Online Class Fair Matching Problem
Algorithms and Complexity Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, October 2024
Invited Workshops and Research Programs
Diffusion Generative Modeling: Progress and Next Steps
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Summer 2026
Algorithmic Foundations for Emerging Computing Technologies
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Fall 2025
AI Policy Summer School
Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination and Redesign, Brown University, July 2025
Ranked Choice Voting Modeling Workshop
Data & Democracy Lab, Cornell University, June 2025
Dagstuhl Seminar 24401: Fair Division: Algorithms, Solution Concepts and Applications
Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, September 2024
Teaching
University of Maryland, College Park
Instructor: Principles of Data Science
Head Teaching Assistant & Guest Lecturer: Computational Game Theory
Head Teaching Assistant: Calculus I and II
Teaching Assistant: Mathematics for the Life Sciences
Aziz Osborne Gold Medal in Teaching Excellence (2021)
Mentoring
Princeton University
Chung Peng Lee, Ph.D. student, Computer Science
Bohdan Turbal, Ph.D. student, Computer Science
Hayoung Jung, Ph.D. student, Computer Science
Jane Castleman, M.S. student, Computer Science (now Ph.D. student, Stanford University)
Service
Program committees: AAAI 2026–2027; AAMAS 2025–2026; ACM EC 2026
Reviewer: NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, FOCS, AAAI, AAMAS, AISTATS, ITCS
Founding Member, AAAI Student Committee (2025–present)
AI Hub Fellow, AAAI (2023)
Senator, Graduate Student Assembly, University of Maryland (2022–2025)
Honors and Awards
Rising Star in Foundations of AI Research, University of Warwick and Oxford ELLIS Unit (2026)
Herbert A. Hauptman Fellowship, University of Maryland (2025)
Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award, University of Maryland (2024)
AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship (2024)
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2022)
Outstanding Innovation Award, Nokia Bell Labs (2022)
Aziz Osborne Gold Medal in Teaching Excellence, University of Maryland (2021)
Dean's Fellowship, University of Maryland (2020)