I am a researcher at Apple in AI/ML research and personalization. I recently completed my PhD in Information Science at Cornell University, where I was advised by Matthew Wilkens and David Mimno.

I co-authored, with Matthew Jockers, the second edition of Text Analysis With R.

Recent News

• Spring ’25: I started a full-time position as a Research Scientist (AI/ML) at Apple
• Spring ’25: I successfully defended my PhD!
• Fall ’24: My article co-authored with Edward H. Stiglitz, Historical Trends in Macro-Jurisprudence: A Language Model Assessment, 1870–2023, was published in the Maryland Law Review.
• Fall ’24: My paper Judicial Self Fashioning: Rhetorical Performance in Supreme Court Opinions was published in Discourse Studies.
• Summer ’24: I returned for another summer as an ML PhD intern at Apple!
• Spring ’24: I presented on using LLMs for domain-specific problems at the Nebraska Forum on Digital Humanities (my alma mater!).
• Fall ’23: My paper Modeling Legal Reasoning: LM Annotation at the Edge of Human Agreement was accepted to EMNLP 23.

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Prior to returning to my graduate studies, I was an Instructor at Washington State University in the Department of English, the Digital Technology and Culture program, and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program. I received my Master’s degree in Literature at WSU with a thesis that investigated the strategic and rhetorical tactics of Supreme Court Justices. Before that, I completed my undergraduate degree at the University of Nebraska in English and Film Studies. At Nebraska, I got involved with the digital humanities through the Nebraska Literary Lab and the early days of the George Eliot Archive.