Research

The research directions I want to work on, and the infrastructure, papers, and computational studies behind them. Each entry states its type and how AI was used.

Research Directions

I am returning to education in a PhD program to master my own knowledge interactions with the data I meet in my research.

R1 Human-centered AI for learning and scientific discovery

How AI should be designed and built into learning, knowledge work, and scientific reasoning so that machine capability…

R2 AI systems for research knowledge

Retrieval and generation grounded in primary sources: hybrid BM25 and dense retrieval over full-text papers, answers…

R3 Machine learning for scientific discovery

Models that make a scientific measurement cheaper or a hypothesis testable: protein stability prediction, Markov state…

R4 Learning methods for quantum computing

Neural decoders for quantum error correction inside a real-time budget, learned search over quantum-optimization…

Portfolio

Research AtlasReproducible research infrastructure
Can the global research-funding economy, grants, funders, organizations, people, and the outputs they produce,…
~1.67M grants · ~192.7K organizations · ~1.44M people · 75 funders · ~$1.04T normalized funding · ~12.2M graph rows
The structure of public research fundingPreprint / working paper
How concentrated is public research funding across institutions, what fraction of funded work is co-funded…
887,016 grants · Gini coefficient 0.929 institutional concentration · ~25% of funded works co-funded across multiple funders
The transformer paper-recommendation advantagePreprint / working paper
Does a transformer-based recommender (SPECTER) beat a classical TF-IDF baseline at recommending related…
2026
What each funder fundsPreprint / working paper
How specialized is each funder's field portfolio, how much do funders complement rather than duplicate each…
2026
Public funding and researcher careersPreprint / working paper
Is the productivity gap between funded and unfunded researchers a causal effect of funding, or mostly…
2026
The Knowledge-Access GradientPreprint / working paper
Every prior technology widened access to consuming knowledge, to read, learn, and reach what others…
78,326 observations · 219 countries · 30 indicators
Neural Decoders for Quantum Error Correction
Can learned decoders match minimum-weight perfect matching (MWPM) on quantum error correction codes while…
2026
Quantum Similarity and Kernel Estimation
Can swap-test and Hadamard-test overlap estimation reproduce classical cosine similarity and kernel…
2026
Academic Paper Ranking and Recommendation SystemAcademic project
Rank academic papers by citation-graph influence and combine that ranking with content-based recommendation.
2022
US States Obesity AnalysisAcademic project
How do state-level obesity rates relate to poverty, income, and other socioeconomic variables, and how strong…
2023