Papers & Projects
Toxic LLempathy: Testing Language Model Misalignment via Reinforcement of User Moral Disengagement in Confessional Contexts (Project still in progress, many iterations to come) Open source misalignment research paper contribution empirically measuring a risk phenomenon I coin 'toxic LLempathy.'
Is UCSC a Safe Place to Protest? Initial Survey Data Suggests Otherwise Results of an independent open social science survey project indicating that respondents view protesting on or around the UCSC as the least safe place to protest in Santa Cruz.
A Cloud-Based Application to Translate Handwritten Cyrillic Into String Format A cloud-based web app to translate images of handwritten cyrillic into string format using a cloud-deployed ML model.
Modeling the Belarusian Polity Using statistical learning methodologies to predict the attributes of Belarusians most promising to target with pro-democratization messaging, and clustering Belarusian society using open source survey data.
NLP Analysis of Republican Candidate Rubio Debate Tweets Quick and dirty NLP exercise.
Difference in Differences Analysis Assessing the Impact of State Minimum Wage Increase on Various State Economic Indicators Quick and dirty DID analysis.
Anticipating the Next Chapter in U.S. Nuclear Deterrence Strategy Workshop summary of a discussion held at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab's Center for Global Security Research.
The Future of Chemical Disarmament in an Eroding Global Order Workshop summary of a discussion held at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab's Center for Global Security Research.
When They Hurt Us, We Win Some political theory with a somewhat problematic basis, that state-perpetrated political violence against mass people's movements can be helpful for movement success.
Operational Infeasibility Unlikely to Deter Further Russian Escalations in Ukraine Analysis of why Putin's operation on Ukraine won't be deterred by operational infeasibility, despite historical political science suggesting operational infeasibility is a source of surrender or de-escalation.
Climate and Weather Intelligence: an Undervalued Asset for Climate Adaptation, Resilience and Security Speculative risk memo from undergrad about climate and weather intelligence.
Letter of Support for AB-1432 A Letter of support for AB-1432 I wrote while interning with Berkeley City Council member Rigel Robinson, to make the California Online Community College Inoperative.
What the CA Governor's Office and CA Higher Education System is Getting Wrong With Funding Student Housing Policy analysis of how California funds student housing, and what the funding regime coule be doing better.