About Me

I am a Ph.D. student at Stanford University, primarily advised by Professor Daniel McFarland in the MIMIR Knowledge Creation Lab. I also work closely with Professor Victor R. Lee in the Data Interactions & STEM Teaching and Learning Lab (DISTAL).

Research Interests

I am a computational social scientist. My research focuses on how institutions evaluate ideas and innovations, how these evaluative processes shape knowledge diffusion, and how teams coordinate to make decisions under uncertainty. My methods include natural language processing, social network analysis, causal inference, and simulation.

I am particularly interested in:

• Evaluation in science and innovation: how peer review and patent examination shape which ideas advance in the knowledge economy
• Knowledge and innovation diffusion: how ideas and technologies spread across fields, organizations, and institutional boundaries, and why some travel farther and faster than others
• AI in Education: how AI-empowered tools are adopted and used in secondary education

Education

• Ph.D. Student, Stanford University, 2025 - Present
• M.S. in Education Data Science, Stanford University, 2023 - 2025
• B.S. in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Emory University, 2020 - 2023
• B.A. in Sociology, Emory University, 2020–2023