Selected Experience

  • Graduate Student Researcher, UC Irvine July 2023 – present

    Department of Cognitive Sciences, advised by Mark Steyvers. Large-scale behavioral experiments on human-AI coordination and trust, LLM-driven adaptive agents, and LLM calibration. Applied collaborations with Honda Research Institute and UCI Beall Applied Innovation (RAG-grounded AI avatars).

  • Research Scientist Intern, Toyota Research Institute June – Sept 2024

    Human Interactive Driving, Cambridge, MA. Ran an online experiment (N = 600) on trust repair after AI errors in shared-control driving. First-author paper at IEEE ITSC 2025; co-inventor on two patent applications.

  • Student Worker, Software Engineering, Microsoft March 2022 – May 2023

    Global Applications (Business Central), Copenhagen. Automated feature delocalization in Python and decoupled country-specific modules across 20+ countries and 40+ localized versions.

  • Research Assistant, University of Copenhagen Jan 2022 – May 2023

    Department of Computer Science. VR user study (N = 40) on avatar embodiment using eye-tracking and micro-phenomenological interviews. Published at HCII 2025.

Education

  • Ph.D., Cognitive Science, University of California, Irvine expected June 2027
  • M.Sc., IT and Cognition, University of Copenhagen 2023
  • B.A., Cognitive Science and German Studies, Vassar College 2021
Experience