Harvard College Class of 2024
Potential Computer Science Concentrator
Email: lcooke@college.harvard.edu
Hometown: Rockville, MD
Fun Fact: I studied abroad twice in high school (Madrid and Lima) and I speak Spanish. I also love to hike and I climb as a member of the Harvard Climbing Club (pictures at the bottom of the page).

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(S)LEUTHER The AI Lie Detector (2018)

Quantifying human truth has been a challenge in intelligence-gathering sciences for decades. Can we learn to more-accurately determine when a person is lying by studying the inflection of their voice? Leuther, the python and tensorflow-powered lie detection software, listens to a one-word answer to a question and determines if the statement is true to do just that. Demo Video

Chorus (2012-)

I have been a choral and acapella singer in school since 2007, but I did not begin my extracurricular career until 2012 as a member of the Strathmore Children's Chorus. From then until 2020, I had the opportunity to perform in semi-annual concerts, in galas alongside talented actors and singers like Julie Andrews and Tony Bennett, and at the 2020 National Governors Association conference where we sang the national anthem. Today, I sing with the Radcliffe Choral Society and the 'Cliffenotes, serving as assistant financial manager.

Dark Matter in Low-Mass Dwarf Galaxies (2019-)

For the past two summers, I have been working in the University of Maryland Astronomy Department under PhD student Rebecca Levy, where I have been studying the dark matter concentration in low-mass dwarf galaxies. The goal of my research is to add more data and present a potential solution to the core-cusp problem, where the distribution of dark matter in a physical simulation of a galaxy differs from the measured distribution.