Hello! I am a senior research fellow at Northeastern University. In Spring 2026, I will start as an assistant professor in Northeastern’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences. My work explores the challenges of modernizing data practices, particularly with respect to privacy and responsible data science.

I completed my PhD in Computer Science (with a secondary in Science & Technology Studies) at Harvard University, where I was fortunate to be advised by Salil Vadhan and Jonathan Zittrain and work within the OpenDP team. My dissertation investigates the technical, social, and political dimensions of differential privacy. I then had a wonderful postdoc year at Columbia University’s Data Science Institute, advised primarily by Rachel Cummings.

Previously, I was a graduate fellow at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics, an intern at Microsoft Research’s Social Media Collective mentored by danah boyd, and an Assembly Student Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Before that, I played four years of varsity golf at Yale University.

If you are interested in working with me as a PhD student or postdoc, please reach out!

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js6514 [at] columbia [dot] edu