About Me

I am a Ph.D. Student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin co-advised by Drs. Aryan Mokhtari and Sanjay Shakkottai. My current research focuses on efficient model fine-tuning and unlearning.

I received my B.S.E in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2023.

Email: jblock at utexas dot edu

Internships

  • Google Research (2025) with Mehryar Mohri
  • MathWorks (2022)
  • Lawrence Livermore National Lab (2021)