Hello! I'm a social scientist and long-time technologist interested in how people build, use, and experience digital technologies. My work combines social research, software development, and applied AI, with interests including algorithmic fairness, AI governance, digital communities, and the social consequences of emerging technologies.
Most recently, I've been developing methods to evaluate fairness when LLMs summarize case documents in high-stakes contexts, including insurance underwriting and immigration decision-making. I've also been building and testing conversational AI agents that model individual communication styles and participate in virtual worlds.
Much of my research has been on the use of technology in border systems. I investigate privatized visa processing, facial age estimation and other biometrics, automated decision-making about travelers, and the grassroots technical responses to these measures. I combine ethnographic and technical methods in my work.
education + certification
MSc, Social Science of the Internet, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
BA, Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
Minors in Anthropology and International Migration Studies
Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional (AIGP), IAPP
work +
LLM case summarization
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Sixfold's Approach to AI Fairness & Bias
Testing, Sixfold write-up
This post on Sixfold's blog discusses the counterfactual fairness testing method I designed for their AI underwriting tools. August 2025. -
Fairness Testing for LLM Document Processing, lecture
slides
I was honored to be invited back to the Oxford Internet Institute in March 2026 to give this lecture on counterfactual auditing of LLM document systems.
facial age estimation at borders
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Asylum by Algorithm, Lighthouse
Reports investigation
I was a contributing investigator on this audit of the UK Home Office's use of facial age estimation on asylum seekers, published in June 2026 with WIRED and The Independent. -
Algorithmic Audit of Yoti's Facial Age Estimation Technology: Potential Implications for
Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children, Oxford coursework
Via an ethical algorithmic audit, this paper examined the proposed use of commercial facial age estimation technology to settle age disputes about young people at borders. 2024.
privatized visa processing
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The Visa Empire:
Borders as a Business, Lighthouse Reports investigation
I was a contributing investigator on this year-long investigation into VFS Global, which was published in May 2026 with 14 media partners. -
Visas, Bots and Bureaucracy: An Ethnographic Study of Digital Community in Attaining
Mobility, Oxford master's thesis
My thesis at Oxford covered how international visa applicants develop open source software and online communities to navigate failures in outsourced visa processing infrastructure. 2024.
