I completed my undergraduate degree in Linguistics at Reed College in 2019. Through that experience, I developed a love of working with unstructured data and being able to tell compelling stories through the power of computing. More information about my linguistics work can be found here.
In 2021, I joined the iCAN program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), a bridge program designed to broaden access to computing. After iCAN, I was accepted to the Master's program at UIUC to continue my computer science education and graduated with an MS in Computer Science in May of 2023. More information about projects I completed during my time at UIUC can be found here.
While in the iCAN program at UIUC, I was fortunate to be a DREAM Fellow and conduct research on the nature of scientific impact with Dr. George Chacko. I was able to devote 400 hours of work on an independent project of my choice through the support of the DREAM program and I chose to report on different metrics for evaluating the impact of scientific studies. For more information, please see my project website.