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Visiting Scholar

Johns Hopkins University

Participated in the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence SCALE 2024 workshop.

• Developed a novel technique using downstream retrieval systems to produce preference rankings. Fine-tuned LLM using reinforcement learning to produce more retrievable document summaries.

MITES Semester Instructor

MIT

Developed and taught a course in machine learning, data science, natural language processing, and computer vision.

• Received rave reviews from students and supervisors alike. Re-hired for summer 2025.

Graduate Teaching Fellow

Georgetown University

Teaching assistant for the following courses: Introduction to Data Analytics (graduate), Computer Vision (graduate), Deep Learning (graduate), and Deep Learning (undergraduate).

• Awarded the Graduate Student Teaching Award for 2024.

Undergraduate Researcher

University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Developed a novel technique for the distillation of a multilingual BERT model into a smaller model.

Activities Coordinator

Georgetown University Computation and Language Group

Responsible for organizing social events.

• Organized some social events.

Treasurer

Graduate Linguistics Student Association

Responsible for managing the budget and organizing events.

• Organized some workshops and social events.

PhD

Georgetown University

Computer Science

• Algorithms
• Speech Processing
• Seminar in NLP
• Computational Linguistics Research Methods

MS

Georgetown University

Computational Linguistics

• Deep Learning
• Corpus Linguistics
• Multilingual NLP
• Machine Learning
• NLP
• Databases
• Hypothesis Testing and R
• Historical Linguistics

BS

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Applied Mathematics

• Calculus I-III
• Linear Algebra
• Differential Equations
• Probability and Statistics
• Linear Optimization
• Numerical Analysis
• Chaos Theory

BS

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Physics

• Quantum Mechanics I-II
• Electrodynamics
• Statistical Mechanics
• Thermodynamics
• Classical Mechanics
• Computational Physics

BA

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Linguistics

• NLP I-III
• Sociolinguistics
• African-American English
• Phonetics
• Phonology
• Syntax
• Semantics

Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award

Georgetown University

This award recognizes excellence among graduate students serving as TAs. Awards are given to one student from each area: humanities, social science and science and an at-large award.

Summa Cum Laude

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Commonwealth Honors College, greatest distinction

University of Massachusetts Amherst Commonwealth Honors College

LeRoy F. Cook, Jr. Memorial Scholarship

Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Awarded for academic excellence in physics and for engaging in teaching/tutoring as an undergraduate.

UMass Chancellor's Award

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Awarded for academic excellence.

Thomas J. Watson Memorial Scholarship

IBM Thomas J. Watson Foundation

Awarded for academic excellence.

Dean's List

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Awarded for academic excellence.

MMMORRF: Multimodal Multilingual Modularized Reciprocal Rank Fusion

Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

We found that a pipeline approach composed of modality-specialized systems out-performed advanced multimodal models on some video retrieval tasks.

FORTIFY: Generative Model Fine-tuning with ORPO for ReTrieval Expansion of InFormal NoisY Text.

Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Augmented Generation via Multimodal Retrieval (MAGMaR 2025)

We found that it may be possible to instill a preference for more retrievable document expansions into an LLM using a downstream retrieval model as a preference labeler.

Experiments in Mamba Sequence Modeling and NLLB-200 Fine-tuning for Low Resource Multilingual Machine Translation

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP 2024)

With a fellow student, I developed a state-of-the-art machine translation system for indigenous languages of the Americas, winning 2nd place in this shared task competition.