My Collaborators

Below are some of my closest collaborators during my research career. I am very grateful to have had the opportunity to work with each of them.

Matthew Allen

Matthew Allen and I worked together for several years at the Center for Systems Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital. During this time, we co-authored several papers in Reinforcement Learning and black-box optimization. Matt helped me to get in to research in Computer Science—I could not have asked for a better partner to begin my career in Computer Science. He is an excellent researcher, programmer, and teammate. He is now a Machine Learning Researcher at North Point Defense—in my estimation, they are very lucky to have him, and academia is much the poorer for his departure.

Mansi Maheshwari

Mansi Maheshwari is a master's student at UMass Amherst who I have been working with, alongside my advisor Bruno Castro da Silva, since before she started the program. In our time working together, she has proven herself to be a quick learner and a dilligent student, publishing a conference paper at CoLLAs 2025 and submitting another version of the work to AAMAS 2026. She has elected to apply to PhD programs for Fall 2026—I am very excited to see where she will go next. If you have the opportunity to work with her or accept her as a student, take it; the opportunity to work with Mansi has been one of my luckiest breaks in my time at UMass Amherst.