Current Appointments & Affiliations
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Computer Science
·
2022 - Present
Computer Science,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
A Visual Proof of the Parallelogram Law
Journal Article American Mathematical Monthly · January 1, 2026 In this note, we give a novel proof of the parallelogram law, relying on two superimposed tilings of the plane. ... Full text CiteWhat Would It Look Like to Align Humans with Ants?
Chapter · January 1, 2026 When we discuss aligning today’s artificial intelligence systems with our interests, we have a decent sense of what success would look like. But many researchers are explicitly interested in aligning future superintelligent AI, whose intelligence far excee ... Full text CiteMoral Change or Noise? On Problems of Aligning AI With Temporally Unstable Human Feedback
Conference Proceedings of the Aaai Conference on Artificial Intelligence · January 1, 2026 Alignment methods in moral domains seek to elicit moral preferences of human stakeholders and incorporate them into AI. This presupposes moral preferences as static targets, but such preferences often evolve over time. Proper alignment of AI to dynamic hum ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
Information Networks: RESUME: Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, and Optimization for Responsible Reopening
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Army Research Office · 2021 - 2022Explainability and Trade Secrecy in AI-Enabled Clinical Decision Support, Diagnostic, and Predictive Software
ResearchAdvisor · Awarded by Greenwall Foundation · 2019 - 2020How to Build Ethics into Robust Artificial Intelligence
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Future of Life Institute · 2015 - 2018View All Grants
Education
Carnegie Mellon University ·
2006
Ph.D.
Carnegie Mellon University ·
2003
M.S.
Harvard University ·
2001
B.A.