positions & projects
Research & projects.
A timeline of the places I have done research and the people I have been lucky enough to work with, plus a topical map of what I am working on now. For the complete CV, see my CV.
research positions
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2025 — present
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2020 — 2025
PhD, Computer Science · University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON
Advisor: Dr. Charles L. A. Clarke · thesis nominated for the Gold Thesis Award.
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2023
Research Intern · Microsoft Research
Redmond, WA
- AgentEval — assessing the utility of LLM-powered applications.
Managers: Julia Kiseleva and Ahmed H. Awadallah
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2022
Research Intern · Google Brain
Montreal, QC
- Offline evaluation of text-to-image systems.
Manager: Fernando Diaz
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2022
Research Intern · Spotify Research
Remote
- Offline evaluation of instant search.
Manager: Benjamin Carterette
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2021
Research Intern · Microsoft Research
Redmond, WA (remote)
- PREME — preference-based meeting exploration.
- Supporting complex information-seeking tasks with implicit constraints.
Managers: Julia Kiseleva, Ahmed H. Awadallah, Milad Shokouhi
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prior
Research Assistant · University of Waterloo
Remote
- Neural indexing for information retrieval systems.
Manager: Charles L. A. Clarke
projects
My major themes are information retrieval and AI for peer review. Below is a breakdown of the topics I work on within them.
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AI for Peer Review
Provenance and claim verification for peer review — PeerPrism and Peerispect.
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Query Performance Prediction
Using QPP as a query selector for RAG — pick the winning variant before paying the generation cost.
read more →Right now I am working on agentic IR, RAG-related problems, and using retrieval for reasoning-intensive tasks. Always happy to collaborate.