I am a second-year Ph.D. student in the Statistics Department at UCLA. My research interests involve explainability and fairness in deep learning, machine learning interpretability, and convex optimization. I obtained my master's degree in Data Science from Stanford University, and I graduated from Southern Methodist University while triple majoring in Mathematics, Statistics, and Management Science.
In industry, I will be working as an AI/ML intern at Apple during the summer of 2025. I worked as a Deep Learning model development intern at ASML in 2024, and in 2023 I implemented model explainability methods and developed various simulations for model probing during a six-month internship at Chemix AI, a San Francisco Bay Area startup. Additionally, I formulated convex optimization methods for experimentation design during an internship at Uber in 2022.
$10,000 First-Place Winner, Google's AI Assistants with Gemma coding competition (2024)
$10,000 UCLA Stone Fellowship (awarded to two Statistics Ph.D. students per year)
UCLA Graduate Dean’s Fellowship (awarded to one Statistics Ph.D. student per class)
UCLA Statistics R&D John Fellow (awarded to one Statistics Ph.D. student per class)
2nd Place Winner of INFORMS National Undergraduate Research Paper of the Year (2021)
Recipient of SMU Summer Research Fellowship Award for Outstanding Research (2020)
Presented to Delphi Research Group, Carnegie Mellon University (August 2022)
Presented at INFORMS Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California (October 2021)
Email: davidtroxell [at] g [dot] ucla [dot] edu