I am a computer science PhD candidate at Northwestern University in the C3 Lab advised by Kristian Hammond. My current research centers around using natural language understanding techniques to answer open-ended questions using knowledge from heterogeneous data stores (i.e. text documents, relational databases, and knowledge graphs). I am also affiliated with Northwestern’s Center for Advancing Safety in Machine Intelligence (CASMI) and am interested in developing methods for ensuring machine learning systems are safe and effective in the real-world.