I am a Senior Research Scientist at Google, working on the Gemini family of language models. My research centers on what I see as the most defining open question in AI: how to optimize on the data space. I study how data quality and distributional structure shape intelligence and, how to create pluralistic alignment frameworks that reflect many cultures and languages. Ultimately, my goal is to design AI that learns from everyone and serves everyone.

I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, where I was a member of the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing (CLIP) lab. My dissertation on detecting fine-grained semantic divergences to improve translation understanding won the Best Thesis Award from the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, where I now serve as a Research Director.