I’m a second-year PhD student in the Computer Science Department at Washington University in St. Louis. I’m in the VIBE Lab with Dr. Alvitta Ottley. I’ve been awarded multiple research fellowships including Clare Boothe Luce Graduate Fellowship, AI-ACCESS NRT Fellowship, and GEM Associate Fellowship. I earned a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree at Grinnell College in Computer Science and a concentration in Statistics in May 2024. From my department at Grinnell, I was awarded the 2024 Henry M. and Theresa P. Walker Endowed Prize for Excellence in Computer Science. I have served as an undergraduate research assistant in Human-Computer Interaction, Social Computing, and Data Science at Brown University (2022) and MIT Media Lab (2023). I’m also passionate about academic engagement within my community. I’ve served as Instructor Assistant at Kode With Klossy (KWK) in March and ran a semester-long coding club for local middle school students (2023-2024). Academia in Computer Science is the medium for facilitating the change I want to see in the world.

Research Interests

My research areas are Human-Computer Interaction and Data Visualization. I pursue projects related to public heatlh and social impact. My current research projects revolve around evaluating impact, decision-making, and design patterns of infographics. Future projects in consideration are analyzing how visualizations are used in news media and improve visualizations used in public health communications.