education

UC Berkeley

PhD student, Physics

Cornell University

Bachelor of Arts, Physics

Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa

research experience

Anthropic Fellow

Anthropic

March 2025-Present

MATS Scholar

ML Alignment & Theory Scholars

June 2024-March 2025

Graduate Student Researcher

UC Berkeley, Department of Physics

June 2019-Present

publications

Google Scholar

conferences & presentations

APS March Meeting, Oral Presentation (2023)

MRS Spring Meeting, Oral Presentation (2021)

APS March Meeting, Oral Presentation (2021)

UC Berkeley Condensed Matter Seminar (2020)

awards & honors

Anthropic Fellow (2025-Present)

Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow (2020-Present)

NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2020-Present)

Berkeley Connect Fellow (2020-2021)

Purnendu Chatterjee Fellow in Energy Technologies (2020-2021)

skills

Programming: Python, Mathematica, MATLAB

ML Frameworks/Libraries: PyTorch, Hugging Face, TensorFlow/Keras, scikit-learn

ML Skills: LLM training at scale (fine-tuning, RLHF, pretraining), PEFT, large-scale dataset curation

Operating systems: Linux, macOS