I started a new position today at Xyla as Infrastructure Lead and ML Engineer. Xyla is creating new AI systems for understanding complex knowledge such as clinical medical research and I'm super excited to come onboard. We have a talented and energized team in place and a vision for how …

After having earned my PhD earlier this year, I have now started work full time at Twitter as a Machine Learning Engineer. Like many large companies that use ML regularly within their products, Twitter has a dedicated org, Cortex, that builds an internal ML platform for others data scientists to …

I'm excited to announce that I successfully defended my PhD thesis today. My thesis is entitled, "Collaborative, open, and automated data science," and will be submitted to the MIT Library.

I want to thank the members of my committee, Dr. Kalyan Veeramachaneni, Prof. Saman Amarasinghe, and Prof. Rob Miller, as …

One initiative that I have been working on for the past year at MIT is the EECS Graduate Application Assistance Program (EECS GAAP), both as an organizer and as a mentor. EECS GAAP is a program that pairs underrepresented applicants to the MIT EECS department with graduate student mentors.

This …

If you're not in a corporate environment, you're probably not sending many mail merges in which you automatically send many emails to different recipients with customized content for each recipient. I recently had to send about 150 emails during my work for a student organization I am involved in. Content …

At the beginning of 2017, I made a resolution: I would read 17 books for pleasure over the course of the year. Now, this might seem like very few to my mother who claims to read a new book every two days on her Kindle. And it might seem like …

Who was Eusapia Palladino?

Eusapia Palladino era una medium Italiana.

I remember saying these words over and over in my dorm room in Schapiro Hall during my third year of college. I was practicing for the midterm presentation in my Advanced Italian Conversation course, in which we had to make …

Welcome to my site. I'll be writing about various topics, such as the world to which we are all party.