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Education

• Ph.D. Student (Computer Science), University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2029 (expected)
  • Co-advised by Dr. Lara Martin and Dr. Cynthia Matuszek
• Civilian Cybersecurity Program, Naval Postgraduate School (remote), 2013
• B.S. in Computer Engineering, University of Kentucky, 2011

Employment

• June 2014 - Present:
  • Senior Software Engineer - Datanova Scientific, LLC
• August 2008 - June 2014
  • Software Engineer - US Department of Defense
• January 2011 - May 2011:
  • Research Assistant - University of Kentucky

Clearance

• Active Top Secret/SCI with full-scope polygraph

Active Projects

Persona-Derived Information Relevance Estimation for Academic Literature Recommendation Systems

Improving personalization of academic literature discovery by augmenting relevance ranking methods with user personas informed by domain of interest, publication history, skill proficiencies, and search intent.

Medical Diagnosis Augmentation via Co-Symptom Identification (Working Title)

Joint research initiative with UMass Amherst to improve patient care and medical diagnoses by identifying discriminatory symptom dyad patterns among medical evaluations.

Talks

Software Tools for Modern Research

September 25, 2026

Lab Talk at UMBC IRAL+LARA Labs, Baltimore, MD, USA

Paper Discussion: mHC - Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections

February 13, 2026

Lab Talk at UMBC LARA Lab, Baltimore, MD, USA

Paper Discussion: Planning Anything With Rigor - General-Purpose Zero-Shot Planning With LLM-Based Formalized Programming

September 05, 2025

Lab Talk at UMBC LARA Lab, Baltimore, MD, USA

Paper Discussion: ASL Handshapes Reflect Pressures for Communicative Efficiency

September 06, 2024

Lab Talk at UMBC LARA Lab, Baltimore, MD, USA

Awards

• Presidential Scholarship (Full-tuition)
  • University of Kentucky, 2006 - 2011

Service

• AAAI AIxAccessibility Workshop (May 2026), Gallaudet University
  • Student Volunteer
• EMNLP Wordplay Workshop (September 2025)
  • Reviewer