About
I'm a PhD student in Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I use natural language processing, machine learning, and interpretability techniques to study literature, translation, and language at scale. I'm interested in understanding how language models are shaped by their training and how this manifests in semantic shifts on complex, creative, and often cross-lingual tasks.
I received my MFA from the University of Iowa's Translation Workshop. At Illinois, I'm advised by Professor Ted Underwood and Professor J. Stephen Downie.
In my down time, I enjoy bouldering, reading, Scrabble, and films.
News
May 2026
I'll be joining Vail Systems as a PhD Data Scientist/NLP intern this summer.
April 2026
Our paper on fluency and faithfulness in literary machine translation was accepted at NLP4DH.
March 2026
My poster on creating a dataset of English-language translations using enriched metadata and our paper on evaluating the quality of OCR in digital libraries were both accepted to DH2026.
July 2025
Attended an NSF-funded Research Software Engineering Bootcamp at Princeton University. I also presented Strictly Speaking: Character Attribution in Literary Dialogue with Language Models at DH2025.
June 2025
I started an internship with the Government Accountability Office's Chief Data Office in Washington, DC this summer.