Biography

I grew up in Silicon Valley preoccupied with technology's domination of society. During my undergraduate years at Williams College and the University of Oxford, I attended to the ways in which the humanities address the limits of scientific knowledge in grasping reality and led human-centered computing research at Carnegie Mellon and Microsoft. My honors thesis on the representation of history in George Eliot's realism was concerned with the relation of art to truth—with art’s gamble that it is, in the end, neither commensurate with nor divorced from reality, that it demands interpretation, that it is art at all. At Cambridge, I'll examine how Eliot and John Ruskin depict the Italian Renaissance, thinking through their concerns with the stakes of historical reception and representation as concerns for our own technological moment. What I learn on the English MPhil and from the extraordinary Gates Cambridge community will undergird my computer science Ph.D. at the University of Washington rethinking digital collections' mediation of history in concert with arts and humanities institutions—and shape my broader vision for serving the arts by working across the theoretical and empirical in computing and the humanities.

Previous Education

University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering 2026
Williams College English and Computer Science 2025