hey! i’m ben.

cs, history
& biology.

i’m pursuing a b.s./m.s. at columbia. alongside computer science, jewish history, and biology, i research how language models’ safety guardrails change as they keep learning.

studies + ml research

investigating
production issues.

i built an agent-assisted system for investigating production issues, and made vector retrieval for retrieval-augmented generation 4× faster.

software engineer intern · may–aug 2025

debugging
GPU systems.

i used causal graphs to investigate failures in GPU systems, resolving root causes 35% faster. i also built a semantic code index with LLVM and Clang.

ml systems research intern · jan–apr 2026

copyright-spam
detection.

i’m building ml systems for copyright-spam detection. our Transformer–XGBoost pipeline reached 99% precision across 1M+ weekly claims.

ml software engineer intern · may 2026–present

comparing
driving policies.

i replayed 25,000+ driving scenarios, compared learned policies with a C++ planner, and used their disagreements to improve planning logic.

robotics + autonomous systems

a few other
wavelengths.

outside of school and work, i’m into triathlon, watchmaking, classical piano, and tennis.