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Ph.D.

University of Maryland

Information Studies

MSE

University of Pennsylvania

Data Science

• Big Data Analytics
• Statistics for Data Science
• Database and Information Systems
• Intro to Software Development
• Principles of Deep Learning
• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical Algorithm Design

B.S.

New York University

Data Science

• Probability and Statistics
• ODE
• Intro to Math Modeling
• Data Structures
• Machine Learning
• Information Visualization
• NLP
• Algorithms
• Decision Making Under Uncertainty
• Human-Centered Data Science

Dean’s Fellowship

University of Maryland

Researcher (with Prof. Harry Zhang)

Drexel University, Computer Science

• Structured LLM outputs into PDDL domain/problem files for verifiable planning
• Iteratively refined outputs with environment feedback; analyzed recurring errors; tried memory/partial-editing

Research Coordinator (with Prof. Daniel Hopkins)

Univ. of Pennsylvania, Political Science

• Analyzed polls/exit polls for FiveThirtyEight 2024 coverage
• Tracked US campaign ads and Russian media topics; scraped 2M+ VK posts and built TF-IDF/BERT features
• Raised political-content share from 10%→50% via logistic regression selection
• Designed GPT-based annotation/translation (≈90% agreement with humans)
• BERTweet finetune on symbolic rhetoric (e.g., "us vs them")

Data Scientist (with Yuxuan Zhang, Regina Ruane)

UPenn, Computational Social Science Lab

• Bias tracking on topics (Biden’s age, NATO); automated ETL for Nielsen streams
• Maintained AWS DB; standardized schemas and network names

Graduate Research Assistant

UPenn, Atlas (with Mark Whiting)

• PDF segmentation + QA with LLMs (DMN/Parallel Context)
• Curated 300+ papers and 300+ questions; improved coverage and accuracy

Machine QA on Chinese Judicial RC

• Span-extraction MRC system

Colorize Images with Deep Learning

• Compared ResNet, GAN, VAE

Customer Lifecycle (NYU × HSBC)

• Segmentation, churn prediction, targeted recs

Max Car Speed in Rain

• Visibility modeling + safe-speed estimation

Coding Instructor

Fife Academy Coding Club, UPenn

100+ K–12 students; curriculum + labs + feedback