Nihowdy! Welcome to Daniel’s Story!

Daniel in Corps of Cadets uniform giving a thumbs-up next to Reveille at the Aggie Code of Honor monument
With Reveille, the First Lady of Aggieland, at the Aggie Code of Honor monument 👍

About Me

I’m a Computer Science undergraduate at Texas A&M University (expected graduation May 2027) and a member of the Corps of Cadets.

Before transferring to A&M, I earned an Associate of Science in Computer Science at Tyler Junior College, where I also spent a year double-majoring in Piano Performance.

Outside of research, I enjoy playing piano, especially collaborative piano. I’ve performed in piano duets and duos, accompanied flute and violin, and played in trios and quartets. You can listen to my playing here.

My part-time work and hobbies include making podcasts and teaching piano to young children.

My research interests center on Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models, especially LLM reasoning.

Research Interests

🤖 Large Language Models

Exploring capabilities and applications of LLMs in various domains

📚 Natural Language Processing

Advancing language understanding and generation techniques

🧠 LLM Reasoning

Understanding and improving how large language models reason

📏 LLM Evaluation

Measuring sycophancy and alignment robustness under pressure

👥 Multi-Agent Simulation

Simulating social behavior with LLM-driven agents

🌐 Computational Social Science

Studying human behavior and society through computation

🛡️ Online Harm Detection

Detecting cyberbullying and generating synthetic data to study it

⚖️ Post-Training Bias Mitigation

Reducing social bias in LLMs through alignment and fine-tuning

Recent News

2026 Talk

Gave a talk on Clubhouse about our SPINE paper, "LLM Sycophancy under Sustained Multi-Turn Pressure," to an audience of over 7,000 listeners. [Listen] [Poster]

2026 Media

Our SPINE paper went viral on X: a post by AIDB (@ai_database) covering the findings has passed 100k views. [Post]

2026 Preprint

Our SPINE paper is now on arXiv: "SPINE: Measuring LLM Sycophancy under Sustained Multi-Turn Pressure" [PDF]

2025 Milestone

Started my B.S. in Computer Science at Texas A&M University and joined the Corps of Cadets! Yikes! Daniel has to wake up at 5:00 am everyday and do push ups as programmer!