a b o u t m e

hi there! i'm luisa, but you knew that already.

a couple quick facts: raised in peru, favorite color green, currently playing tears of the kingdom, really into slab and dynamic climbs, my favorite book is the three body problem, followed by freedom by jonathan franzen, i crochet and knit (but better at knit), and i'm pretty decent at chess.

i studied cs & math at northeastern as an undergrad, and will be starting a cs phd at johns hopkins in the fall. research wise, i'm broadly into the field of machine learning, both theory and application. on the theory side, i think a lot about geometric deep learning and probabilistic inference. on the application side, i'm interested in computational chemistry and biology.

and that's me. toss me a fun fact, and i'll throw one your way too.

here, a fun fact: there is a village in puno, peru where the urus people live on floating structures made of a straw-like plant on lake titicaca, moving every decade or so after constructing new islands. you can also eat the plant they use to build - it's crunchy and a bit sweet, kind of like munching on a sugar cane. see the wikipedia page on lake titicaca.