Updates, Talks + Awards

Award

Inducted into Pi Mu Epsilon, the national mathematics honor society, through URI’s Rhode Island Alpha Chapter.

Role

Unanimously elected Vice President of URI’s NSBE chapter.

Talk

Co-facilitated How AI Works: LLMs Unplugged with Dr. Sarah Brown and Dr. Kenya Andrews at the Machine Learning Symposium on Justice in Healthcare, Education, and Public Policy, held at Brown University in Providence.

Talk

Presented MindScope: Machine Learning-Driven Analysis of Browser-Based Pupillometry Data at the URI College of Arts & Sciences Research Symposium..

Research

Joined the Structure Analytics Interdisciplinary Lab (SAIL) at URI to work with Dr. Pengyu (Peter) Liu on structural analysis of AI-generated text.

Milestone

Began my senior year at the University of Rhode Island.

Research

Joined the Machine Learning for Socio-technical Systems (ML4STS) Lab at URI to work with Dr. Sarah Brown on community algorithmic auditing.

Award

Named to the URI Spring 2026 President’s List.

Research

Began my Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship at the HAX Lab, working on MindScope with Dr. Shaun Wallace.

Award

Inducted into the Society for Collegiate Leadership & Achievement (SCLA), nominated by the Assistant Dean of the URI College of Arts & Sciences.

Award

Inducted into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi at URI, the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society. Only the top 7.5% of juniors and 10% of seniors are eligible.

Award

Awarded a fully funded Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship through the URI College of Arts & Sciences Fellows Program to work on MindScope in the HAX Lab from May to July. The fellowship is competitive across the whole college.

Talk

Co-led two sessions of How AI Works: LLMs Unplugged with Dr. Sarah Brown and Dr. Kenya Andrews at the NSBE Annual Convention in Baltimore: the AI/ML Bias and Fairness Workshop and its Facilitators Training Workshop.

Event

Attended the NSBE 52nd Annual Convention in Baltimore, MD.

Role

Co-founded the URI Quantum Tech Club, where I serve as Programs & Communications Chair.

Event

Took part in Hack@URI, URI’s first student-run multi-track hackathon.

Award

Named to the URI Fall 2025 Dean’s List.

Talk

Co-led How AI Works: LLMs Unplugged with Dr. Sarah Brown as an AI/ML bias and fairness workshop for URI’s Introduction to Africana Studies class (AAF201).

Talk

Co-led How AI Works: LLMs Unplugged with Dr. Sarah Brown at the NSBE Region I Fall Regional Conference in Albany, NY.

Event

Attended the NSBE Region I Fall Regional Conference in Albany, NY.

Research

Joined the Human-Centered Experiential Technologies (HAX) Lab at URI to work with Dr. Shaun Wallace on webcam-based pupillometry for remote, inclusive studies of cognitive effort.

Award

Named to the URI Spring 2025 Dean’s List.

Talk

Presented RentEase, my team’s capstone project, an app that connects college students with off-campus housing, at the URI Software Engineering Capstone Project Trade Show.

Role

Re-elected Senator of URI’s NSBE chapter for a second term.

Award

Inducted into The National Society of Leadership and Success (NSLS).

Event

Attended the NSBE 51st Annual Convention in Chicago, IL.

Award

Named to the URI Fall 2024 Dean’s List.

Event

Attended the NSBE Region I Fall Regional Conference in Stamford, CT.

Award

Named to the URI Spring 2024 Dean’s List.

Award

Received the Jeune Espoir Award (French Promising Scholar Award) from URI’s Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures.

Role

Elected Senator of URI’s NSBE chapter.

Role

Appointed Global Peer Ambassador for URI’s Office of International Students and Scholars.

Event

Attended the NSBE 50th Annual Convention, in Atlanta, GA.

Award

Named to the URI Fall 2023 Dean’s List.

Award

Named a Pathways to Success Scholar by URI’s Department of Computer Science and Statistics.

Role

Appointed International Student Peer Ambassador through URI’s Peer Ambassador Program for the Office of International Students and Scholars.

Role

Appointed Freshman Senator of URI’s NSBE chapter.

Milestone

Began my freshman year at the University of Rhode Island, studying in the Department of Computer Science and Statistics.

Award

Awarded the Presidential Scholarship at the University of Rhode Island.