Rijul Jain

I work on aesthetics and the philosophy of history in the nineteenth-century English novel and historiographically grounded computing serving the arts and humanities.

I’m a PhD student in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington advised by Benjamin Charles Germain Lee and R. Benjamin Shapiro. In 2026-27, I’ll take up an MPhil in English Studies at the University of Cambridge, funded by a 2026 Gates Cambridge Scholarship. My doctoral research is supported by a 2025 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

I completed my BA in English and Computer Science, summa cum laude, with Highest Honors in English, at Williams College. I was a visiting student at the University of Oxford for the 2023-24 academic year on the Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford.

I have designed and conducted a study of expert users of proof-oriented languages at Microsoft Research, developed methods to generate domain-specific programs with large language models to democratize diagram authoring at Carnegie Mellon University, and implemented a programming language to safely express program semantics for OS platform- and version-agnostic execution at Williams.

I’m a professionally trained stage actor and a classical pianist.