About Me

Hi! I am an assistant professor at Texas Tech University, having started in Fall 2025. Before that, I was a postdoc at the University of Hong Kong and a former Research Fellow for the Center of AI Safety. Before that, I did my PhD at USC.

 

My research lies at the intersection of the philosophy of AI, decision theory, epistemology, and global priorities research. At the University of Hong Kong, I was a Principal Investigator in the AI and Humanity Lab, where my research theme is ``AI in the Extreme". Questions I'm working on include: how should we act in the face of the extreme risks posed by AI? How should we allocate resources if AI can enjoy extreme levels of well-being? And, how confident should we be in a simulation if an AI can sustain extremely large simulated populations? In my related work in global priorities research, I am working on the prospects of developing a ``knowledge-first" decision theory that gives sensible recommendations in the face of gambles involving extremely tiny probabilities of extremely large values. At Texas Tech, I have continued this direction in my research while also working on questions related to AI bias and fairness.

 

 Aside from my work in AI and Global Priorities Research, I also have research interests in epistemology (both formal and traditional), the philosophy of language, decision theory, and ethics. I have published work on the Preface Paradox, the St. Petersburg Paradox, Moore's Paradox, and have papers on paradoxes in infinite ethics. I like paradoxes.