I am a Data Science Fellow at Harvard University. My primary affiliations are with the interdisciplinary Harvard Data Science Initiative and the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology.
A computational biologist by training, I have broad interests across data science, and I am particularly enthusiastic about questions that span traditionally quantitative and qualitative disciplines. Topics of interest include: 1) digital humanities and computational literary criticism, especially for Latin, ancient Greek, and other premodern traditions; 2) cultural evolution and historical psychology; 3) health literacy and clear communication in medicine and public health; and 4) systems-level mathematical modeling for biomedicine. Many aspects of my research program involve natural language processing and analysis of large textual corpora. Across all projects, I aim to promote linguistic fairness through careful attention to lower-resource languages and systematic study of Anglophone bias.
I received a Ph.D. in Systems Biology from Harvard University, where I held a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, and an A.B. in Chemistry from Princeton University. From 2018-2020 I was a Neukom Fellow at Dartmouth College.
In 2014 I founded the Quantitative Criticism Lab (QCL), which I co-direct with Pramit Chaudhuri at the University of Texas at Austin. My current research with QCL is supported by the Digital Humanities Advancement Grants and Collaborative Resarch programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
A copy of my CV is available here.