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I write poetry, fiction, criticism, and screenplays. My writing has appeared in poets.org, Los Angeles Review of Books, Cleveland Review of Books, and Screen Slate. My first chapbook is Monsoons (2024, Bottlecap Press). I am working on a novel.
I make data models for a living. I am a part-time Research Associate at BISR. I graduated from Yale in 2024 with a degree in Math and English. I live in New York City.
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I'm interested in probability, non-Bayesian paradigms, probablistic machine learning, and computational literary studies. I'm especially interested in applications of category theory to ML and algorithmic justice. In college I spent a lot of time learning about cryptography and quantum computing. My senior project was on the irreducible representations of symmetric groups and the ring of symmetric functions.
i'm interested in globalized "new waves" and queer cinema. i'm currently writing a short film about an aging anthropologist's unexpected reunion with her estranged daughter.
in college i played bass and sang vocals in a band called inverse cowgirl. i play a lot of ragtime piano and write ambient music. i grew up listening to all kinds of chinese indie music: e.g. chinese shoegaze
My senior thesis in English was an existentialist reading of Qiu Miaojin's Notes of a Crocodile, where I especially focused on queer modernism's global legacies. An earlier draft of my thesis (perhaps too ambitiously) sought to define a localized genealogy of queer Sinophone literature starting from 1960s Taiwan. I keep up with queer Sinophone scholarship and write about queer China.
I had the fortune to work with many manuscripts and archives in college and learned to read secretary hand. I transcribed all the food entries from Thomas Turner's diaries.