Welcome!

I am an Assistant Professor in the McCombs School of Business at University of Texas at Austin. Additionally, I have a courtesy appointment at the School of Information. I am a core member of the UT Machine Learning Lab and affiliated with MIT Media Lab.

I received my Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab in 2020. Prior to this, I earned dual Master's degrees in Computer Science and Transportation Engineering from MIT. My research has been supported by National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Marketing Science Institute, UT Good Systems, Texas Global, UT Research & Creative Grants, and UT McCombs.

My research focuses on:

• Interpretable Machine/Deep Learning on Networks
• Network Spillovers and Dynamics
• Human-Centric Interpretability in Generative AI

• 2023-2024 Trammell/CBA Foundation Teaching Award for Assistant Professors.
• McCombs BBA Faculty Honor Roll for 2021, 2023, and 2024.

• Received a $1M grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) AIM-AHEAD program to build AI tools to support Black youth mental health in 2023 (joint with Ying Ding, Craig Watkins, Yifan Peng, and David Hodge).
• National Science Foundation (NSF) CRII Award from the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) department in 2022.
• UT Austin Research & Creative Grants in 2023.
• McCombs Research Excellence Grant in 2023 and 2021.
• Texas Global Faculty Research Seed Grants in 2023.
• Marketing Science Institute in 2021.