I build LLM agents that improve themselves through search and reinforcement learning.
My research asks how a model can propose its own problems, explore solutions with inference-time search, and
learn from what it finds. Lately that has meant post-training coding agents.
I am a Visiting Researcher at Caltech,
advised by Yisong Yue. I am pursuing a Ph.D. in
Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, advised by
Santiago Paternain and previously by
Ziniu Hu, and expect to graduate in May 2027. I received my M.S. from the
University of Chicago, where I worked with
Haifeng Xu and Dacheng Xiu.
Before that, I trained as an economist.
I have also spent time in industry at
Microsoft Research,
NEC Laboratories America, and
Asari.ai, working on post-training coding agents and reinforcement learning for LLMs.
My research has been featured in the State of AI Report
by Air Street Capital, appearing in the
2024 edition.