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I am a Quantitative Researcher at Balyasny Asset Management.

I completed my PhD in Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University, where I was advised by Brandon Stewart and Ronnie Sircar. My research interests include steerable reasoning and generation in large language models, causal inference with text, persuasion, and quantitative social science.

Previously, I completed my MA Hons in Economics and Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, where I wrote my undergraduate thesis On the Limitations of Cryptocurrencies, examining the incentive compatibility of decentralized ledgers under the supervision of Andrew Clausen. I then completed an MPhil in Economics at Cambridge University, where I wrote my master’s thesis Exploring the Cyclical Predictability of Sector-Specific Premia under the supervision of Mark Salmon.

Between my Master’s and PhD, I worked as an Associate Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group, where I was mentored by former CEO and Global Chair Hans-Paul Bürkner. During my PhD, I interned as a Quantitative Researcher at Balyasny Asset Management and as a Research Scientist at Meta.

Recent Talks

STATe-of-Thoughts: Structured Action Templates for Tree-of-Thoughts
Workshop on Agent Behavior, COLM 2026 · October 2026
STATe-of-Thoughts: Structured Action Templates for Tree-of-Thoughts
Conference on Language Modeling (COLM 2026) · October 2026
APPEAL: Attributing Persuasive Power to Expert-Specified Actions in LLMs
Text as Data Conference (TADA), oral presentation · October 2026
Text Generation as a Sequential Decision Problem: Steering Language Models at Inference Time
Murphy Lab, Harvard University · August 2026
Creative Reasoning for Forecasting
Eternis AI · April 2026
Causal Inference and Controllable Generation for Understanding Persuasion
Google DeepMind · April 2026
STATe-of-Thoughts: Structured Action Templates for Tree-of-Thoughts
Princeton Language Initiative · April 2026
STATe-of-Thoughts: Structured Action Templates for Tree-of-Thoughts
Salganik Lab · December 2025
The Power of Vague Conspiracy Theories: A Quantitative Text Analysis of Online Voter Fraud Discourse
Princeton Data-Driven Social Science · November 2025

Academic Affiliations

Princeton University University of Cambridge University of Edinburgh

Professional Experience

Meta Balyasny Asset Management Boston Consulting Group Deutsche Bundesbank