hi.

Currently, I am a postdoctoral researcher at Kellogg School of Management and the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), working on few strings of research: (1) building and evaluating multimodal AI pipelines to decode real-world team dynamics in life sciences and business domains. (2) investigating AI's capabilities and limitations in producing novel and impactful research. (3) developing a rigorous evalutaion framework for using AI in scientific discovery.

I earned my PhD from the Technology and Social Behavior program (joint degree between Computer Science and Communication Studies) at Northwestern University, where I worked with an innovation incubator on desigining and building proactive AI systems that serve as a thinking partner for tackling real-world challenges. During my PhD, I also coached extensively undergraduate engineering students on human-centered design and engineering practices.

Besides academic research, I am also invovled with two separate startups as an AI technical advisor and engineer. I am designing and building agentic AI systems for (1) personalized learning in K-12 classrooms and (2) team-level collaboration in complex business workflows.

Outside of work, you most likely will find me playing guitar, doing film and digital photography, playing tennis, reading, doodling, and cooking spicy food.

If you also have been poundering on similar questions, and suspect that the improvements of foundational models alone won't be enough to tackle real-world challenges, let's chat!