I am a PhD candidate at Purdue University, where I work on Natural Language Understanding with Dr. Julia Taylor Rayz at the AKRaNLU Lab. I am particularly interested in characterizing the level of semantic knowledge made available to computational models that only learn from textual exposure. I work closely with Dr. Allyson Ettinger and her lab at UChicago. I am also affiliated with CERIAS, Purdue’s center for research and education in areas of information security.

In 2018, I was fortunate to be awarded the Purdue Research Foundation fellowship (now known as the Ross-Lynn Graduate Student Fellowship). I then taught database fundamentals to sophomore level undergraduates for three semesters. I am currently funded by an NSF-EAGER grant focused on using artificial intelligence techniques to develop entertainment education materials for social-engineering research.

My email is [my-first-name] @ purdue [dot] edu.^{[why is it like that?]}