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Some tidbits.

CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award Research Statement. I was named an honorable mention for the Computing Research Association (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award for 2025. There may be a bit of survivorship bias, but in any case, future applicants may use my statement attached as a reference! Some of it is also selection bias :)

NSF GRFP Research Statement. I was awarded an NSF GRFP in 2026. Ditto the previous comment about survivorship bias, but here was my research statement!

Graduate School Statement (MIT Long), Graduate School Statement (MIT Short), Graduate School Statement (Harvard). Here are some of my graduate school PhD statements, I had a couple versions of my statement (roughly 1000 words, 1400 words, and 1500 words roughly corresponded to all the different cutoffs). Most of my statements were variations of the MIT small one. I'll note that I was rejected from MIT (GG), but through conversations with Tess I don't think it was because of a bad statement. I also attached Harvard, where I was accepted and ended up matriculating :D.

Machine Learning Model Discovery. Final product for an independent study course on the relationship between stochastic processes, partial differential equations, and machine learning!

Joint Blog w/ JG. How the Sausage was made.

My Dotfiles. Disorganized as all hell. Screen saver is from Cowboy Bebop (See you, space cowboy). I am not religiously attached to any of my choices, though, I do like BSPWN a fair bit. When I start my PhD I will probably switch to Nix. Why Nix?