I'm a software designer working on AI research with UC San Diego and applied ML at the University of Kentucky.
I'm broadly interested in programming interfaces and languages, with past experiences in urban sociology, human-computer interaction, and computational social science.
Blog
Drag-and-Drop Not Considered Harmful
May 5, 2026
printf("Hello, World!");
April 5, 2026
Conjectures
Figuring Out Freerer Arrows
May 29, 2026
Placement, Atomicity, and Crash Safety
May 19, 2026
Legible Software: A TypeScript Example
May 11, 2026
Views Are Now Cheap
April 14, 2026
Unfinished Thoughts from SMED REU
August 21, 2021
Boundary Block Groups
July 23, 2021
Work
Self Adjoint Operator
Design Engineer
Capital One
Software Engineer
Columbia University
REU Participant
Progressive Turnout Project
Field Representative
Prototypes
Experiments
Research
They Aren't Vibing: How Experienced Developers Use AI Agents
Professional Software Developers Don't Vibe, They Control: AI Agent Use for Coding in 2025
Industry
Media
Coup Catalyst: A Coup Forecasting Tool
Developers Use AI Coding Tools To Get Started, Not Finish The Job
Resources
Papers
Public Scholarship
The Threat of Artificial Intelligence Is Not Just Real, It's Here
Interdisciplinary Social Science and the Limits of Quantitative Research
Anti-Coup Strategies Should Address Civilian Coup Allies
Reflecting on Coup Risk in Mali
Integrated Data in the United States: A Look at New York's Workforce Portal
Projects
Industry
Presentations
Cartographic Limits and Interdisciplinary Science: Maps and Mathematics in Pursuit of Social Justice
Legacies of Instability: Military Coups and Regime Consolidation in the Modern World
Applied Machine Learning to Detect Risk of Illegal Leadership Turnover
Adolescent Online Safety: Expanding the Knowledge Base and Developing Machine Learning Algorithms
Internships
I worked at: PMBF Program, UNA-Orlando, BallotReady, The COVID-19 Tracking Project, Main Street One, Council on Foreign Relations, The Hub Project, Swing Left, New America, ActBlue, KRC Research, and ActBlue Technical Services.
Service
Knight Hacks
Director of Workshops → UX Research
UCF Office of Undergraduate Research
Student Leader
NextGen America
Digital Organizer
Organizing Together 2020
Digital Organizer
Teaching
Media
Digital Transformation Opportunities and Challenges in the Lower Mekong Region
Reconceptualizing Public Procurement to Strengthen State Benefits Delivery and Improve Outcomes
Contributing to an Open Source Project
Marriage Equality: Global Comparisons
How the U.S. Patrols Its Borders
The U.S. Vice President and Foreign Policy
The Fukushima Disaster Didn't Scare the World Off Nuclear Power
Resources