2024–present
About
biography
I am a researcher working at the intersection of mechanism design, theoretical computer science, and decentralized systems. Much of my research studies how to design markets and protocols that remain effective in permissionless settings where participants and infrastructure operators may behave strategically or adversarially.
My work has included transaction-fee mechanisms, consensus and block-production incentives, markets for computation, and robust procurement auctions. I currently work with Ritual on mechanism design for decentralized computation. Previously, I was part of the a16z Crypto Research lab. I did graduate work at Columbia with Tim Roughgarden, and studied computer science and applied mathematics at Princeton. Before graduate school, I worked as a quantitative trader at Jane Street.
research approach
I am usually drawn to design problems arising in practice, where the standard model leaves out an important feature of the actual system. I move between formal analysis and system details, understanding the operational context, identifying the relevant incentives and constraints, and using theory to clarify which assumptions and tradeoffs matter for implementation.
experience & education
2023–2024
a16z crypto — Research Analyst
Summer 2022
a16z crypto — Research Intern
2019–2020
Jane Street — Quantitative Trader
Summer 2018
Jane Street — Quantitative Trading Intern
2020–2022
Columbia University — M.S. in Computer Science
Advised by Tim Roughgarden, with a focus on algorithmic game theory.
2015–2019
Princeton University — B.S.E. in Computer Science
Minor in Applied Mathematics; summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and Tau Beta Pi.
academic service
2023–2025
ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC)
Program Committee
2023–2024
Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT)
Program Committee
2024
Workshop on Decentralized Finance
Program Committee
2024
Games and Economic Behavior
Reviewer
2023–2024
ACM–SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA)
External Reviewer
2021–2022
Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS)
External Reviewer
2019
European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA)
External Reviewer
teaching & mentorship
Fall 2021
Foundations of Blockchains
Graduate Teaching Assistant · Columbia University
Summer 2020
New Horizons in Theoretical Computer Science
Teaching Assistant · Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago · online
2016–2018
Reasoning about Computation
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant · five semesters · Princeton University
Fall 2017
Graduate Advanced Algorithms
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant · Princeton University
2018–2019
Economics and Computation · Theory of Algorithms
Grader · Princeton University
2016–2018
Discrete mathematics · data structures and algorithms · programming systems
Peer Tutor · Princeton University
2016–2019
Princeton University Mentorship Program
Peer Mentor · Princeton University