Hi, I'm Lucas

I like to build things. My main areas of interest are NLP and GIS.

I graduated from the University of Utah in spring 2026 after majoring in Computer Science and Linguistics, and I'm currently planning on returning in fall 2026 to get an MS in Computer Science. I'm very interested in all things NLP, especially anything related to multilingual NLP and tokenization. I'm currently doing a research project on extending byte-level tokenizers to multilingual LLMs with UtahNLP, and am fortunate to be supervised by Dr. Ana Marasović and Maitrey Mehta.

I also hold an interest in GIS and most things related to the natural world. During my senior year of college I was part of an amazing team that created WhereWild, an application that combines species occurrence data with GIS data to create in-depth field guides for hundreds of thousands of species. I'm planning on continuing its development and hopefully will post developer logs and updates on here semi-regularly.