I’m a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Roblox enabling virtual communication and connection at scale via AI and spoken language technology.

I am wrapping up my Ph.D. in EECS at UC Berkeley, focusing on speech modeling and natural language processing. I'm fortunate to be advised by Gopala K. Anumanchipalli and Edward F. Chang, with support from the NSF GRFP. I am part of the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab and Chang Lab at UCSF.

I co-led the development of multimodal AI tools to accurately translate brain activity into text, audible personalized speech, and a high-fidelity "digital talking avatar" (Nature 2023, Nature Neuroscience 2025). Currently, I am working on improved methods for naturalistic speech synthesis and spoken language modeling. I earned my B.S. degree at Columbia University, where I studied under Paul Sajda.

Outside of my professional life, I have previously completed various endurance races, such as the Moab 240-mile Endurance Run and the Bigfoot 200-mile Endurance Run. I've also spent over 100 days in silent meditation at Vipassana meditation centers worldwide.