I am a graduate student at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) working towards earning my doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. My graduate research advisor is Professor D. Fox Harrell, Ph.D., Director of the MIT Center for Advanced Virtuality.

I work primarily in the subfield of Narrative Intelligence (NI), bringing together my interests in AI, cognitive science, narrative, and media studies. My prior work has focused on story generation, gestural interfaces, and educational uses of interactive storytelling.

My research is supported by fellowship awards from the following programs:

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Ford Foundation Fellowship Program
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
Scholar Award given by the International Chapter of the P.E.O.
MIT Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL) Grants in pK-12 Education Innovation