I am a PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania (2023–) advised by Jianbo Shi and a visiting student at Berkeley AI Research (Jan 2026–). My research is supported by the NDSEG Fellowship. I study the learned representations and behavior of foundation models to develop more creative and aligned AI.
Previously, I graduated from MIT with bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science. I have interned at Meta Superintelligence Labs (2025), Adobe Research (2024), and Meta FAIR Chemistry (2022). During my undergrad, I conducted research at MIT CSAIL and the MIT Quest for Intelligence.
News
- Feb 2026: Vibe Spaces accepted to CVPR 2026. See you in Denver!
- Jan 2026: SAM 3: Segment Anything with Concepts accepted to ICLR 2026.
- Jun 2025: Started research scientist internship at Meta Superintelligence Labs.
- Oct 2024: Secret Seeds and Origin Attribution accepted to WACV 2025. See you in Tucson!
- Apr 2024: Awarded the NDSEG Fellowship (4.9% acceptance rate).
- Feb 2024: Amodal Completion selected as a CVPR 2024 Highlight. See you in Seattle!
- Jan 2023: Started my PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. See you in Philly!
Selected Publications
Awards
Leadership and Service
- Co-Founder, NSF ARNI (NeuroAI) Institute Emerging Researchers Group (Jan 2024–May 2026)
- Organizer, Penn Vision and Learning Reading Group (Jan 2023–May 2025)
- Co-Organizer, Penn GRASP Lab Student, Faculty, and Industry Weekly Seminar (Jan 2024–Dec 2025)
- Co-Organizer, Penn GRASP Lab Social Committee (Sep 2023–May 2024)
- Teaching Assistant, Penn CIS 6800 Advanced Topics in Machine Perception (Fall 2023, Fall 2024)
- Course Assistant, MIT 6.036 Introduction to Machine Learning (Spring 2020)
- Course Assistant, MIT 6.0001 and 6.0002 Introduction to Computer Science (Spring 2019)