Behavioral science, computation, and applied AI.
Most of my work starts with the same problem: people make judgments from incomplete, socially loaded information. I use experiments, statistical modeling, and large-scale language analysis to understand those judgments. The systems I build come from the same interest in how people find and use information.
Selected coverage
Public coverage and institutional pages.
A few external pages where my work, training, or recognition has been written up.
Capabilities
What I’m fluent with.
The questions change, but my work often spans the full path from study design and analysis to retrieval systems and product implementation.
Engineering & tools
The tools I use to build research pipelines, analyses, and product systems.
Applied AI & product systems
Machine learning, language models, retrieval, and evaluation for work built around documents and decisions.
Statistics & research methods
Study design and analysis for ambiguous behavioral questions.
Mechanisms I study
The behavioral and cognitive questions that recur across my research.
Education
Training across psychology, statistics, and data science.
PhD Candidate in Psychology / Social Psychology; M.S. Psychology
2022-present; M.S. 2025
Graduate training in social psychology.
M.S. Applied Statistics student
Anticipated August 2027
Graduate training in statistics, modeling, and data science.
B.A. Psychology; minor in Composition & Rhetoric
Undergraduate education
My undergraduate foundation in psychology and writing/rhetoric.
Beyond publications
Applied work, teaching, and talks.
Much of my work also happens outside papers: consulting with researchers on difficult data, teaching and mentoring, and presenting at universities and conferences.
Northwestern IT Research Computing
I’m a Data Science, Statistics, and Visualization Student Consultant. I work with researchers across Northwestern to figure out what to do with ambiguous data, build analyses in R and Python, and turn results into decisions they can act on.
Northwestern & Harvard Extension
I’ve been a teaching assistant at Northwestern and at Harvard Extension School, including graduate-level material on bias, defensiveness, self-regulation, and quantitative methods.
Undergraduate researchers
I’ve mentored 15+ undergraduate research assistants and honors thesis students through my first-author projects in social cognition, moral judgment, and computational behavioral science.
Selected talks.
Invited talks and conference presentations at universities and meetings.
Columbia
2026
Kellogg
2025
MPA
2022, 2024, 2025
UChicago
2025
UIUC
2025
University of Delaware
2025
SPSP
2024
SPSSI
2024
Yale
2024
SICSS
2023
London Business School
2022
Michigan State
2021
Also at
Selected invited talks and conference presentations; see the research CV for the complete list.
Affiliations
Where I work and collaborate.
SCIP Lab
Social Cognition and Intergroup Processes Lab
Graduate Student
Graduate training
My research home for social cognition and intergroup-processes work.
IPR
Northwestern Institute for Policy Research
Graduate Research Assistant
Graduate training
Interdisciplinary research on social and policy questions.
Data Science, Statistics, and Visualization Student Consultants
Northwestern IT Research Computing and Data Services
Student Consultant
Graduate training
Applied statistics, R, Python, visualization, and research computing for Northwestern researchers.
Research collaborator
Graduate training
Research collaboration with Tessa Charlesworth on language, AI, and changes in bias.
Research collaborator
Graduate training
Research collaboration with William Brady on large-scale language data and moral and emotional dynamics.
Funding + recognition
Fellowships, grants, and honors.
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
National Science Foundation
Competitive graduate fellowship supporting my research training in cognitive science and computational methods.
Understanding the Dynamics of Racial Prejudice Reduction
Edward Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Scholar
Edward Bouchet Graduate Honor Society
Honor recognizing scholarly achievement and broader commitments in graduate education.
APA Graduate Student Fellowship
American Psychological Association
Graduate student fellowship from the American Psychological Association.
Clara Mayo Grant
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
Grant support for research on racial prejudice reduction dynamics.
Understanding the Dynamics of Racial Prejudice Reduction
Institute for Policy Research Seed Grant
Northwestern Institute for Policy Research
Seed funding for research I led with Sylvia Perry on defensiveness, bias awareness, prejudice, and interpersonal conversations about racism.
Antecedents and Outcomes of White Fragility in Conversations About Personal and Systemic Racism
Robert Stevens Harper Prize for Graduate Study in Psychology
Knox College
Undergraduate academic award recognizing preparation for graduate study in psychology.
Edith Powers Van Dyke Memorial Award in Psychology
Knox College
Undergraduate academic award in psychology.