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Education
| University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Urbana, IL | Aug 2026 – Present |
| M.S. (research-based, funded), TRAIS Lab | Advisor: Professor Jiaqi Ma |
| Columbia University | New York, NY | Aug 2018 – May 2022 |
| B.S. in Computer Science (Intelligent Systems Track), Minor in Economics | Summa Cum Laude |
- Egleston Scholar
- Head Teaching Assistant, Data Structures (COMS 3134), 2019–2022
Research
TRAIS Lab, UIUC | Research-based M.S. Student | Aug 2026 – Present
- Advised by Professor Jiaqi Ma
MIT CSAIL, Improbable AI Lab | Research Collaborator | Apr 2025 – Present
- Working with Professor Pulkit Agrawal on synthetic pretraining and neural cellular automata for language models
| Columbia University | Student Researcher | Aug 2021 – Dec 2021 |
| Burke Energy & Combustion Lab | NSF Undergraduate Research Intern | Summer 2019, 2020 |
Industry
Bregal Sagemount | Technology Private Equity Associate | Aug 2024 – Present
- Technology-focused growth equity investing
Evercore | Investment Banking Analyst, Technology M&A | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024
- Advisory on technology mergers and acquisitions
Teaching
| Columbia University | Head TA, Data Structures (COMS 3134) | 2019 – 2022 |
Publications
- Convergent Emergence of In-Context Learning Across Modalities — Nathan Breslow, Seungwook Han, Daniel Hyunsoo Lee, Aayush Mishra, Anqi Liu, Daniel Khashabi. Preprint, 2026.
- Training Language Models via Neural Cellular Automata — Dan Lee*, Seungwook Han*, Akarsh Kumar, Pulkit Agrawal. Preprint, 2025.