I am a second-year Ph.D. student in Northeastern's Khoury College of Computer Science. Broadly, my interests focus on the ways in which marginalized people form diffuse or federated communities on social media, and how those communities respond to internal and external conflicts which threaten their integrity. I'm currently analyzing data related to Enbridge's Line 3 and the #StopLine3 movement to understand how activist groups' uses of media differ between platforms and cases.

Prior to arriving at Northeastern, I received a B.S. in computer science and mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park. During my undergrad, I participated in an REU at Rutgers University where I devised new techniques for dual-sensor porosity detection in 3D laser metal deposition printing. I also worked at the American Mathematical Society's Washington, D.C. office, where I helped connect career mathematicians with U.S. Congresspeople to facilitate government-supported basic research. I then received an M.S. in theoretical computer science at the University of Maryland, College Park, during which I studied approximation techniques for the set cover problem and how they were improved using probabilistically-checkable proof techniques.