Curriculum Vitæ
Download .MDI. Experience
Current
| Sep. 2026 – Present | |
| MIT AI Risk Initiative* | Jun. 2026 – Present |
Previous
| AI Risk Explorer† | Feb. 2026 – Jun. 2026 |
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| Family Office | Aug. 2025 – Jun. 2026 |
| Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University | Aug. 2025 – Aug. 2025 |
| Director’s Award from Fmr. SecState Condoleezza Rice | Feb. 2026 |
| FutureSafe at the Nuclear Threat Initiative | Jun. 2025 – Aug. 2025 |
| The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School | Jan. 2025 – May 2025 |
| City Hub and Network for Gender Equity | Jan. 2025 – May 2025 |
| OECD Global Forum on Technology | Dec. 2024 – Jan. 2025 |
| Verum Legalis: The Occidental College Law Review | Jan. 2024 – Jan. 2025 |
| Office of the Chair of the First Committee of the UN General Assembly | Aug. 2024 – Dec. 2024 |
| Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College | May 2024 – Aug. 2024 |
| Human Rights Cities Alliance | Jan. 2024 – May 2024 |
| McKinnon Center for Global Affairs & John Parke Young Initiative on the Global Political Economy | Mar. 2023 – May 2024 |
| Bureau of Industry and Security at the U.S. Department of Commerce | Sep. 2023 – May 2024 |
| Charles R. Blyth Fund at Occidental College | Apr. 2023 – May 2024 |
| Austrian Service Abroad | May 2023 – Aug. 2023 |
| U.S. Mission to International Organizations in Vienna | Sep. 2022 – May 2023 |
| Occidental Consulting Group | Sep. 2022 – May 2023 |
| Wolf Theiss | Dec. 2021 – Jan. 2022; Dec. 2022 – Jan. 2023 |
| European Forum Alpbach | May 2022 – Aug. 2022 |
| The Occidental Newspaper | Sep. 2021 – May 2022 |
II. Education
Occidental College
Aug. 2021 – May 2025
Bachelor of Arts with Honors
- Major #1: Stuart Chevalier Program in Diplomacy + World Affairs (DWA)
- Major #2: Comparative Studies in Literature + Culture (CSLC)
Distinctions
Honors
- GPA: 3.97/4.00
- Summa cum Laude
- ΦBK (elected as a junior)
- Margaret Bundy Scott Scholarship (highest merit scholarship)
Awards
- DWA Award for Exemplary Achievement in Academic and Co-curricular Activities May 2025
- DWA Prize for Best Thesis Overall May 2025
- Alternate selection for the James C. Gaither Junior Fellowship at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Mar. 2025
- Critical Language Scholarship Mar. 2024
- Gilman International Scholarship Dec. 2023
California Institute of Technology
Aug. 2021 – May 2025
Special Student
- Field of study: Interdisciplinary Studies Program (ISP)
Distinctions
Honors
- GPA: 4.00/4.00
Awards
- Award for Best Paper in multiple courses
III. Languages
A. Modern languages
My proficiencies follow the ILR’s 0–5 scale (with + marking intermediate levels).
- German 5
- Armenian 4+
- Yiddish 4+
- Spanish 4
- French 3+
- Portuguese 3+
- Russian 2+
- Korean 2
- Amharic 1+
- Arabic (Fuṣḥā and Lebanese) 1+
- Italian 1+
- Turkish 1+
- Mandarin 1
B. Philological training
- Ancient Greek
- Classical Latin
- Classical Nahuatl
IV. Skills & methods
A. Programming
- Python (e.g., pandas, NumPy/SciPy, Jupyter, regex, NetworkX)
- SQL (e.g., PostgreSQL, DuckDB, SQLite; joins, CTEs, aggregation)
- R (e.g., tidyverse, ggplot2, data wrangling, reproducible analysis)
- Bash (CLI + grep/sed/awk)
- Datalog (incl. Soufflé + Flan)
- Rust
- Go
- Git
- LaTeX
B. Tools + platforms
- QGIS + ArcGIS
- Promptfoo
- Garak
- Vector search + vector databases
- Docker
C. AI / Security
- LLM + multimodal red teaming
- Prompt injection, jailbreak, + escalation-chain design
- Vulnerability reporting
- OSINT tooling
D. Methods
- Causal inference; natural, survey, + conjoint experiments
- Event-data construction + fusion
- Bayesian estimation
- Scenario-based threat modeling
- Social media/fora (via custom Python tools) + SOCMINT
- Open-source + targeted research
- Analytic-method design