RAND Corporation
Research Software EngineerBuilding internal tools and web applications for research teams, with a recent focus on LLM workflows and evaluation.
Research Software Engineer
Andrew Sloan
Internal tooling, model evaluation, and other research software.
Experience
Tax Foundation
Software EngineerDeveloped and deployed the Taxes and Growth model in collaboration with economists.
Selected publications
Coauthored work at RANDJudge Reliability Harness ↗
Co-developed an open-source harness: synthetic data generation, agentic dataset perturbation pipeline and tooling, robustness and bias tests, and the human-review UI.
Simpler Is Better for Autograders ↗
Ran experiments comparing autograder setups across accuracy, cost, and runtime.
Toward Comprehensive Benchmarking of the Biological Knowledge of Frontier Large Language Models ↗
Helped run evaluations and built Inspect AI tooling for agent-based biology tasks.
Education
UCLA
B.S. Materials Engineering