About

I am originally from Seattle. I received my bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago in 2023 in computer science and mathematics. While I was there, I produced a paper in representation theory. After graduating, I moved back to Seattle and worked at Amazon for two years in the hardware engineering organization within AWS. On my first team, I worked on the platform for managing baseboard management controllers, which live on a secondary out-of-band network and do things like turning servers on and off. On my second team, I worked on automating the recovery of servers whose failures had been attributed to BIOS defects. In September 2025, I left Amazon and began to devote most of my energy to studying Greek and Latin. I made significant progress; I can now fluently read some simpler Latin passages from antiquity. In January 2026, I moved to New York City.

As of March 2026, I have shifted my focus to technical AI alignment research / mechanistic interpretability / AI-notkilleveryoneism / insert your favorite label here. I have been concerned about AI existential risk since 2018, but I'm just now getting my technical footing in the field. In particular, I'm working through the ARENA curriculum, and separate from that, I hope to produce a legible artifact of some kind in time to include it in a MATS application by late May 2026.

My other interests include the Lindy Hop, the original and best swing dance form, and singing music in the barbershop style.