I am a 5th year PhD student at the Language Technologies Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. My advisor is Prof. William Cohen.

My primary research interest is in the use of machine learning for network analysis and text mining. Specifically, I am interested in latent topic and blockstructure analysis using topic models and stochastic block models. My research is motivated by a need to address the disquietude brought about by the overwhelming complexity of reality. Graphical models allows us to explain and understand complex real world phenomena using grok-able approximations.