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Applied mathematics and computer science at Northwestern. I work on systems where the hard part is real: trading infrastructure, compilers and runtimes, and the numerical methods underneath them.

Education

Northwestern University

B.S. Applied Mathematics & Computer Science · expected June 2029

Phillips Academy

High School Diploma — 4.0 GPA · June 2025

Experience

Quantitative Developer

Northwestern Financial Technologies · Sept 2025 —

Study event-futures microstructure and exchange design with the trading group, and take that work into production: the live Kalshi bot, and the limit-order-book simulator it is tested against.

Undergraduate Researcher

Gingrich Group · 2024 — 2025

Research in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics — reaction–diffusion and tensor-network stochastic chemistry — and the tooling it needed: browser simulators now used in coursework, and sweep pipelines rebuilt to run five times faster on the university clusters.

Undergraduate Researcher

AquaLab · 2023 — 2024

Internet measurement research on privacy and data-protection practice across the web. Designed the study's telemetry model and built Plankton, the distributed crawler behind the datasets later measurement work drew on.

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