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I am a Computer Science PhD Candidate at Cornell University, based at the New York City campus, Cornell Tech, and advised by Wendy Ju and Helen Nissenbaum. My research is supported by the Cornell Tech Urban Tech Hub, the Cornell Dean's Excellence Fellowship, the Siegel PiTech PhD Impact Fellowship, and the Digital Life Initiative Doctoral Fellowship. I have held summer fellowships at Hayden AI and the Design Trust for Public Space. I have written about and received coverage of my work in the New York Times, New York Post, The Economist, Gothamist, and other local NYC news outlets.

I co-organize the EAAMO Urban Data Working Group.

Currently, I care most about upholding agency in public spaces, expectation-aligned and automated appropriateness in artificial-intelligence powered inferential systems, and large-scale & creative urban visual analytics.

I play, compose, and record neoclassical piano music, pendulate between fiction and non-fiction books, hike whilst on vacation, write (immediately below), and model once or twice per year.

News

  • First op-ed! With Michael Samuelian, on CUPUM '25 sidewalk scaffolding project. New York Post. (Link)
  • I write in Concrete+Code about developing our F25 Urban Systems course project, CDSpec. (Link)
  • I co-organized a workshop on "Assessing and Communicating the Risks of Urban AI", in collaboration with the Cornell Tech Urban Tech Hub and Nokia Bell Labs Cambridge. Attendees from NYC, Boston, and Philadelphia government.

Research Projects