I'm a second year PhD student in computer science at Columbia University and a NSF Graduate Research Fellow. I'm interested in computational approaches to poetic language, in which context, emotion, and beauty are more important than informational content. I build co-creative textual interfaces that augment our writing.

I used to build machines and sensors. I hold a bachelors in mechanical engineering from MIT, where I recieved the Carl G. Sontheimer Prize for Excellence in Innovation and Creativity for my work on soft robotics. I worked for four years after graduating at two amazing startups: Rest Devices and Soofa.

I'm also an essayist and poet. My most recent essay, 'Language and the Algorithm', was published in the Ploughshares blog. I'm recent graduate of the School for Poetic Computation, where I participated in their 2018 summer session entitled Code Societies.