Experience

Squack
• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee
• COO and Cofounder

  • Dec 2022 - Present


University of Chicago

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• PHD Student

  • Sep 2022 - Dec 2022

  Worked with Ben Zhao on topics at the intersection of security and machine learning. Worked with Ben Zhao on topics at the intersection of security and machine learning.



University of Maryland

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Scientist

  • Jun 2020 - Sep 2022

  Worked on and published several machine learning projects, including: Developing a way to train image classifiers while maintaining data privacy. Creating a method to identify the filters within a neural network that are most responsible for specific types of incorrect predictions. Building a type of network that can solve complex algorithmic problems when trained on easy ones. Investigating whether diffusion models can still work when using degradations other than Gaussian noise. Show less



Harvard University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Contractor

  • Jan 2020 - Mar 2020

  Collaborated with a graduate student on a project in cancer metastasis in the PED department. Collaborated with a graduate student on a project in cancer metastasis in the PED department.



Caltech

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Math 0 Teaching Assistant

  • Jun 2017 - Sep 2018

  Class included a range of topics aimed to gently introduce students to the rigorous proof-writing required by the introductory Ma 1a class at Caltech.

• Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow

  • Jun 2017 - Sep 2018

  Had the opportunity to work with Professor Matilde Marcolli and some of her graduate students for a couple of summers and my junior year. We were exploring different ways to represent a mathematical object called the Bruhat-Tits tree in the hyperbolic plane, which is a curved space that's like the surface of a saddle.



The Johns Hopkins University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Volunteer

  • Jun 2013 - Sep 2015

  Began working under the supervision of graduate student (at the time) Saif al Qassim. Eventually demonstrated sufficient competence to tackle my own projects, and work directly with the PI Prof. Mario A. Bianchet. Won Intel STS 2015 semifinalist as a result of my work during this time, and helped publish two paper in collaboration with other colleagues. Began working under the supervision of graduate student (at the time) Saif al Qassim. Eventually demonstrated sufficient competence to tackle my own projects, and work directly with the PI Prof. Mario A. Bianchet. Won Intel STS 2015 semifinalist as a result of my work during this time, and helped publish two paper in collaboration with other colleagues.