Interests

I'm a big believer in the transformative and democratizing power of technology.

Smart homes are awesome! I'm currently managing a massive IT project that involves over 40 smart devices, including smart blinds, lightbulbs, door and window sensors, cameras, speakers, and more. Beyond the obvious quality-of-life improvements, I've come to understand the security implications of a densely networked home — both the protections it enables and the vulnerabilities it creates.

I'm also a big fan of wearable devices like the Apple Watch. The ability to passively collect longitudinal health data — heart rate, sleep, movement, even stress proxies — is genuinely remarkable. Most people collect this data without ever analyzing it. I do.

My formal training is in biostatistics, with a focus on developing novel statistical methods for analyzing neuroimaging data. The methodological problems are hard: high-dimensional, noisy, and full of nuisance variation. I find that genuinely interesting.

I work primarily in R, and I believe in literate programming — code that explains itself, analysis that can be reproduced, and findings that don't disappear into a PDF. The HealthData.me project is a direct expression of this: a step-by-step tutorial built from my own Apple Health data, showing exactly what trauma does to a body over time.

More broadly, I'm interested in data as evidence — in the forensic sense. When institutions fail to protect you, data can. The discipline required to collect, clean, and analyze it carefully is the same discipline that makes a whistleblower's case airtight.

My interest in psychopathology began out of necessity. I needed to understand what was happening to me before I could document it, and I needed to document it before I could escape. I went through the DSM-V systematically — not as a clinician, but as a statistician who needed a classification system that matched the evidence.

What I found is that personality disorders — particularly those on the antagonistic externalizing spectrum — are simultaneously well-documented in the literature and almost entirely ignored by the legal and institutional systems tasked with handling their consequences. The gap between what psychology knows and what courts act on is staggering.

I'm particularly interested in the intersection of psychopathology and technology: how digital platforms enable coercive control, how data can be weaponized against a partner, and how the same tools that empower survivors can be turned against them. This is not theoretical for me.