Welcome! I am a 2nd-year Computer Science Ph.D. student at UC San Diego in the Programming Systems group in La Jolla, CA, advised by Sorin Lerner. I also work closely with Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick and Shlomo Dubnov and am involved in the Music Understanding Synthesis and AI Creativity group. Before coming to UCSD, I double majored in Computer Science and Music and minored in Mathematics at Pomona College in Claremont, CA, where I was advised by Yuqing Melanie Wu and Ben Wiedermann in CS, and Alfred Cramer in Music. I used to work as a software engineer at Meta, and as a freelance software engineer at Stainless. In summer 2025, I am interning at Microsoft Research in the Research in Software Engineering (RiSE) group, researching formal document processing under the mentorship of Nikolaj Bjorner.

My research interests lie in the intersection of Programming Languages (PL), AI, and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). I aim to develop human-interpretable structural constraints on sequence models for the controllable generation of well-formed sequence data. My ultimate goal is to create a richly interactive, human-machine co-creation process enabling end-users to produce structurally sound outputs.

My most recent work combined stochastic and formal logic techniques to frame and solve the dually NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem of music structure summarization as an extension of the Generalized Median Graph problem. I am now exploring constrained decoding of sequence models to apply these results as controllable, hierarchical-relational structural constraints the model. Previously, my undergrad research combined mathematical and formal methods with HCI to give end-users tools for music creation. Check out Projects and Publications for more details!

Besides research, I am passionate about mentoring, and served as Mentorship Co-Chair for UCSD’s Graduate Women in Computing organization in the 2024-2025 school year. In my free time, I am an amateur flutist, and I enjoy continuing my undergraduate musicology research on the Jewish Polish Soviet Holocaust-era composer Mieczysław Weinberg.