Me at Amada in Philadelphia, 2008
I am currently third-year graduate student at Harvard University, in the EconCS group. My advisor is Yiling Chen.
My research interests largely fall in the category of human Internet systems – mechanisms, systems, and organizations, built around people, that formed spontaneously with the growth of the Internet. Human interaction on the Internet drives everything from content generation to open source software to collaborative problem solving, and my goals are to understand how it works and how to make it more efficient. More specifically, my research includes analysis of online communities, distributed human computation, and crowdsourcing / peer production. I also dabble in applied optimization techniques for various problems, including kidney exchange.
As an undergrad, I worked on systems and security research at the University of Pennsylvania with Micah Sherr and Boon Thau Loo. As a result, I love applying my systems knowledge to new projects and working on research that involves significant technical implementation or empirical experiments.
I received B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Finance from the University of Pennsylvania in May 2009.
Curriculum Vitae (Updated January 2012)