I am a Computer Science PhD Candidate at Cornell University, based at the New York City campus, Cornell Tech. Before that, I completed a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and General & Departmental Honors curricula at the Clemson University Honors College (during the pandemic, unfortunately). This summer, I am a research fellow at the Design Trust for Public Space. In 2024, I was a research fellow at Hayden AI Technologies. My research is supported by the Cornell Dean's Excellence Fellowship, the Siegel PiTech PhD Impact Fellowship, and the Digital Life Initiative Doctoral Fellowship.

My research interests include urban data science; computational social science, particularly in issues pertaining to societal inequality; fashion & design; and computer vision towards urban sensing. My research has been covered in the New York Times, The Economist, Gothamist, and other local NYC news outlets.

I play classical and neoclassical piano music, and write my own 'peaceful piano' compositions since 2020.

Writing

• Winter's Best, '24

  Published:Mar 30, 2025 |  at 12:47 PM

  My favorites from the winter bridging 2024 and 2025, where music never modeled life better.

• Where I am from, in nots

  Published:Mar 15, 2025 |  at 03:30 AM

  A short piece in the first issue of Skills/Hobbies/Interests that attempts to answer the prompt, 'where are you from?'

• Estimating the Perceived 'Claustrophobia' of New York City's Streets

  Published:Jul 26, 2024 |  at 03:30 AM

  New York City is a large place; almost 469 square miles of pretty dense civilization. Within the city, there are thousands of miles of sidewalks. As you walk through different neighborhoods, you may experience a variety of different atmospheres. In Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, it's quaint and quiet. In SoHo these days, there are so many pedestrians that they spill off the narrow sidewalks. While a neighborhood's atmosphere is, of course, a function of time, it is possible to get an average consensus of how 'crowded' each neighborhood feels by averaging over time. When we say 'crowded', we mean not just with people; we also mean with static objects, or street furniture, or, to get even more colloquial, 'clutter'. When we mix 'crowdedness' within the narrow environment of NYC's sidewalks, we endeavor to call this feeling 'claustrophobia', a direct mapping to the definition in psychology.

• Winter's Best, '23

  Published:Apr 26, 2024 |  at 03:30 AM

  My favorite sonic finds from the winter of 2023.