I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at NYU Courant. I have worked broadly in algorithms and machine learning theory. Currently, my main interest is in foundations of machine learning and language models. I have also worked on areas ranging from fundamental computational and statistical questions to inverse problems in the sciences, especially in quantum information.
Previously I was a Miller postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley in fall 2025, hosted by Prasad Raghavendra and I completed my PhD in EECS at MIT where I was fortunate to be advised by Ankur Moitra. My work was supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, a Hertz Fellowship, and a Citadel GQS Fellowship. I also completed my undergraduate degree (in mathematics) at MIT.
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