Aligned Emergence

Active
Personal website · 2026

A personal portfolio and blog born from curiosity. A space to share ideas, explore the intersection of AI technology and human values, and think across disciplines like psychology, data science, and beyond. Built to reflect how I see the world: interdisciplinary, evolving, and rooted in what matters.

Jekyll GitHub Pages HTML / CSS JavaScript

Job Application Tracker

In Progress
Productivity tool · 2026

A dashboard for tracking job applications with filtering, sorting, and calendar views. Features search, status chips, and a monthly calendar for deadline tracking. Currently private while optimizing for efficiency.

HTML / CSS JavaScript Jekyll

Causal Inference & Policy Evaluation

Academic
BSE · Causal Inference & ML · Spring 2026

Applying causal inference methods to evaluate policy interventions using observational data. Exploring treatment effect estimation with double machine learning and instrumental variables.

Python R EconML Causal Forests

Text Mining & NLP Pipeline

Academic
BSE · Intro to Text Mining & NLP · Spring 2026

Building NLP pipelines for text classification and topic modeling. Working with real-world corpora to extract structure from unstructured text using transformer-based architectures.

Python Hugging Face spaCy scikit-learn

Building BERT for Disaster Response

Academic
BSE · Computational Learning & Deep Learning · Spring 2026

Fine-tuning a BERT model to classify text messages sent during natural disasters into categories like medical help, water, food, and shelter. Designed to help emergency responders quickly triage incoming communications and prioritize relief efforts.

Python PyTorch Hugging Face BERT NLP

Geospatial Analysis of Urban Systems

Academic
BSE · Geospatial Data Science · Spring 2026

Spatial data analysis combining satellite imagery, geographic information systems, and statistical modeling to study urban patterns and economic geography.

R sf / terra QGIS Spatial Econometrics

COMPAS Algorithmic Fairness Analysis

Academic
BSE · Statistical Inference · Fall 2025

Investigating what predicts who gets misclassified by the COMPAS recidivism tool, and whether those patterns differ across racial groups. Built on ProPublica's dataset (n=17,479) from Broward County, FL. Found that age x race interaction is the strongest predictor of misclassification, with error types splitting along racial lines. Extended with GAM analysis, separate FP/FN modeling, and XGBoost with SHAP interpretability.

Python XGBoost SHAP Fairness Metrics

Min-Knapsack with Compactness Constraints

Academic
BSE · Deterministic Models & Optimization · Fall 2025

Solving the Unit-Profit Minimum Knapsack Problem with compactness constraints using two approaches: a Mixed-Integer Programming formulation (Gurobi) for exact optima, and a custom O(n·t·Δ) dynamic programming algorithm for the decision version. Generated multi-modal test instances at multiple scales, validated DP correctness against all MIP solutions, and benchmarked performance.

Python Gurobi Dynamic Programming NumPy