About Me
I am a second-year PhD candidate in computer science at Harvard, co-advised by Salil Vadhan and Sitan Chen and supported by the NSF GRFP. I am also affiliated with OpenDP. My research broadly focuses on studying robust and private statistics with an eye toward computational (in)tractability.
I grew up in Seattle and did my undergrad in computer science at Columbia, where I was part of the crypto lab advised by Tal Malkin. During my undergrad I was fortunate to spend a great summer in 2022 doing work related to digital signal processing at Apple, and another in 2023 at Purdue studying distribution testing research with Paul Valiant.
In my free time I enjoy skiing, playing pickleball, and occasionally contributing to open-source software.
Contact
You can reach me at my institutional email wmckelvie@fas.harvard.edu.