Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
WUSM Neurosurgery
The Leuthardt Lab

New York University Langone Health
NYU Neurosurgery
OLAB

Status Quo

I am currently (March 2024-March 2025) a visiting medical (MD) student researcher at NYU OLAB under the supervision of Dr. Eric Oermann. I am co-advised by Dr. Eric Leuthardt at my home institution (Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis). After completing this research experience, I plan to return to finish my MD at the WUSM. I aim to apply to 2026 Neurological Surgery Match.

Road So Far

I graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a BS in Computer Science in May 2019 and an MSE in Applied Mathematics & Statistics in December 2019. While a student there I was fortunate to be advised by Suchi Saria and Avanti Athreya. During COVID my gap year I worked as an Assistant Research Engineer at my alma mater’s Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics. I was a part of the NeuroData lab and primarily worked with Carey Priebe on various problems in statistical graph inference and with Joshua Vogelstein on causal inference from observational health data. I started an MD-PhD program at Washington University School of Medicine in 2021, but later decided to only pursue the first two letters out of five.

Research Interests

Research-wise, I am curious about

1. artificial intelligence, and why might neural networks have some already,
2. human intelligence, and why I might not have any still.

Most of my recent work has been on Large Language Models (LLMs), after they became cool. My research interests outside of LLMs&Neurosurgery include statistical inference on connectome networks, diagnostic and prognostic clinical decision support tools, among other intersections of statistics and medicine.

P.S.

Every math answer I give you is always up to a sign/inverse/reciprocal/transpose/etc. Constants are overrated.