About
I’m a guest researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. I completed my B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California. My interest in research began at sixteen while interning at USC’s Single Molecule Biophotonics Lab, where I studied protein interactions in the development of Emery-Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy. As an undergraduate, I’ve been recognized as a Presidential Scholar, Viterbi Fellow, and a Ming Hsieh Institute Undergraduate Research Scholar. My work has also been recognized by the National Center for Women & IT and the National Academy of Engineering.
I am passionate about human-centered technology. My work spans affective, ecological, and social computing, from identifying emotional distress in children to detecting early-stage crop disease and improving hate speech detection. I am interested in exploring impactful applications of AI in areas related to affective and social computing.
Selected Awards
- Grand Challenges Scholar, National Academy of Engineering (2024)
- Collegiate Award Honorable Mention, National Center for Women & IT (2024)
- Undergraduate Research Scholar, Ming Hsieh Institute (2023)
- Latinx Student Leader, Google (2022)
Recent News
- 12/2025: I will begin my role as a guest researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology through their Professional Research and Experience Program (PREP).
- 09/2025: My preprint “Transfer Learning via Lexical Relatedness” was accepted at the Queer in AI workshop at NeurIPS in San Diego.
- 07/2024: My project “Early Detection of Coffee Leaf Rust Through Convolutional Neural Networks Trained on Low-Resolution Images,” accompanied by a preprint by the same name, was awarded Honorable Mention for the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Collegiate Award.