@charlie
An unconventional, multi-modal agent that helps group discussions reach nuance using real-time affective signals
Hello 👋
I’m a grad student at the MIT Media Lab and Research Affiliate at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. I study networked systems of humans and AI — how they coordinate, how they make decisions, how detectable and steerable they are — and what that tells us about the future of social networks, digital markets, and hybrid organizations.
Before that, I:
worked as a software and ML engineer at two AI startups, where I trained language models and built pipelines around them
got my Bachelor’s degree from Columbia University, where I double-majored in Computer Science-Statistics and Psychology
produced music professionally for +5 years.
Publications
Nature Communications
Fun Projects
SciBench Reviewer
An agentic paper reviewer + benchmarking pipeline and challenge. Built for fast, structured feedback. (`scibench.ai`)
Scramble (Not maintained anymore)
Recommendation-based web app that helped my classmates shoot their shot, stress-free, before graduation.
AI Squid Game
An adversarial AI assignment + competition I wrote as Head TA for Columbia's COMS4701 - Artificial Intelligence class.
Life Updates
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July 2026Joined the Stanford Digital Economy Lab (HAI).
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Sep 2025Started grad school at MIT!Sometimes dreams come true...
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June 2024Joined the MIT Media Lab as a Researcher.Research at the intersection of network science, privay, and AI
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2022–2024Joined Fathom HealthSeries A ➡️ B. Built data ingest + inference pipelines for incoming customers, fine-tuned LLMs, and shipped an end-to-end go-live with 90%+ coding accuracy across specialties.
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May 2022Graduated college 🎓!Computer Science-Statistics + Psychology majors, cum laude, major GPA 3.9.
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2022ScrambleCoded a surprisingly viral recommendation-based web app to help my fellow seniors shoot their shot with classmates before graduating. 1,200 registered users, 600 DAU, +50% matched. Became an annual tradition at Columbia. Crazy experience!
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2021Head TA, Artificial Intelligence (COMS 4701)400+ students. Created a fun assignment + course-wide competition on adversarial AI. My favorite experience in college.
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2021–2022Joined SenseIP as a Machine Learning EngineerTrained & evaluated language models for patent similarity ➡️ +20% F-1 in production.
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2020–2021Joined Korem LabResearch on computational + ML approaches for metabolic modeling.
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2019–2021Almaworks AcceleratorWorked with 20+ early-stage teams on roadmapping and shipping value.
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Sep 2018Moved to New York, started college at Columbia 🦁