Hi, I'm Katie
Building reliable AI systems and studying how they affect people.
I'm an M.S. student in Computer Science at USC with a background in Human-Centered Design & Engineering from the University of Washington. I'm interested in building AI systems that are reliable, thoughtfully evaluated, and grounded in how people actually use them.
Software Engineer Intern at Google · Summer 2026
Featured Work
AI Systems at Google
Built internal AI systems for software issue triage, shareable investigation sessions, continuous user-feedback analysis, and developer workflow automation.
Mitigating Dialect Bias in Toxicity Detection
Evaluated vector scaling and adversarial debiasing for a toxicity classifier that disproportionately flagged African American English.
LLM-Assisted Debugging for Novice Programmers
Built and evaluated an LLM assistant that helped novice programmers interpret errors and act on debugging guidance.