Hello! I'm a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the College of Information at the University of Arizona, advised by Dr. Steven Bethard. My research interests center on social meaning and trustworthiness in AI, with a particular focus on bias in large language models (LLMs) as a critical barrier to building safe and reliable AI systems. I investigate how LLMs reflect and reproduce social dynamics embedded in society, and how they exhibit biases that parallel human cognitive and social biases surfacing in natural language, treating these behaviors as concrete, measurable instances of misalignment between model outputs and human values. I aim to develop methods that make LLMs more aligned, transparent, and trustworthy for human-AI interaction and to understand the broader societal implications of LLMs.