I am a postdoc in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study, where I am supported by an NSF CI Fellowship. I completed my PhD in computer science at MIT in June 2011, where I was very fortunate to have Tom Leighton as my advisor and be supported by a Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellowship. I received my S.M. in computer science from MIT in 2009 and my B.S. in electrical and computer engineering from Cornell University in 2007. Before joining MIT, I (twice) interned at Google and worked on blog ranking algorithms and collaborative filtering.

My primary research interests are in algorithms and learning -- particularly geometric problems that arise in these areas. A major goal of my research has been to build bridges between various problems studied in computer science and areas in pure mathematics. For more, see the Research section of my webpage.