I am a first-year Ph.D. student at the Theory Group of 🍌UC Santa Cruz where I am very fortunate to be advised by Prof. Vaggos Chatziafratis.

My research interests lie in the intersection of Theoretical Computer Science and Machine Learning, primarily the theoretical aspects of Contrastive Learning. I am also interested in broader combinatorial optimization problems, and other TCS topics that I am not yet familiar with :)

I used to play in competitive programming (ICPC, and more), although Large Language Models are probably better than me now!