Resume

Experience

1. Subject-Matter Expert

   2026–Present

   Aligned Labs, Inc.

   Training, evaluating, and pressure-testing leading AI models on expert-level sociological knowledge, creating and verifying graduate-level questions and explanations, and assessing whether AI-generated reasoning meets the standards of a trained expert.

2. Postdoc Fellow

   2024–2026

   George Washington University, School of Medicine & Health Sciences

   Defined the scope of an interdisciplinary research program on decision making, built its coding scheme, ELAN annotation template, and SOP documentation, and coordinated clinicians, measurement scientists, and analysts. Analyzed 35 hours of video-recorded inpatient rehabilitation sessions into a process model of decision making under emergent practical problems. Leading the co-authored manuscript translating those findings into actionable recommendations (in progress).

3. Teaching Fellow

   2023–2024

   UCLA, Department of Sociology

   Taught Communication in Medical Care, Conversational Structures, Talk & Social Institutions, and Medical Sociology.

4. Program Coordinator

   2020–2022

   UCLA Center for Language, Interaction, & Culture

   Coordinated interdisciplinary programming for an academic research center: cross-functional program management spanning faculty, graduate researchers, and visiting scholars.

5. Teaching Associate

   2017–2020

   UCLA, Department of Sociology

   Taught Introduction to Sociological Research Methods, Talk & Social Institutions, Conversational Structures, Introduction to Sociology, Contemporary Sociological Theory, and Social Networks.

6. Website Manager

   2011–2018

   International Society for Conversation Analysis

   Designed and managed the organization’s website for seven years. Developed and deployed a production registration and accommodation-booking system for the 2014 International Conference on Conversation Analysis, the earliest evidence of the “researcher who also ships software” thread that runs through the rest of this timeline.