THEME
STATUS: ACTIVE
UPDATED: 2026.05
USDA_ARS
HPAI_FORECASTING
OPENAI_COMMUNITY
EXPERIENCE RECORD

Research,
Teaching,
and Technical Community.

My experience centers on applied machine learning for infectious-disease surveillance, with supporting work in technical education and large-scale AI community programming.

USDA_ARS // RESEARCH_ASSISTANT

Forward-Looking HPAI Forecasting

Developing a forward-looking, national-scale county-month HPAI forecasting framework for the conterminous United States using environmental, agricultural, and geospatial data streams.

Implementing spatiotemporal machine learning models over county adjacency networks while engineering leakage-safe pipelines with forward-only truncation, forecast-month feature generation, artifact persistence, and automated monthly backtesting.

Designing a decision-support web application with county-level risk visualizations that translate forecast outputs into interpretable biosurveillance insights.

PERIOD: JULY 2025 – PRESENT // ARLINGTON, TEXAS
USDA_ARS // RESEARCH_INTERN

National HPAI Risk Classification

Developed national-scale county-level HPAI risk classification and pseudo-forecasting models using environmental and climate covariates across the conterminous United States.

Achieved 75%+ balanced accuracy on highly imbalanced outbreak data spanning 2022–2024, then presented findings to the USDA ARS Chief Scientist and multiple National Program Leaders.

This internship work became the foundation for a second-author manuscript submitted to Scientific Reports and the ongoing forward-looking forecasting system.

PERIOD: MAY 2025 – JULY 2025 // ARLINGTON, TEXAS
OPENAI // ENGAGEMENT_MANAGER

AI Community Programming

Scaled OpenAI’s official Discord community to 850k+ users through technical programming, online events, product-adjacent engagement, and community initiatives.

Supported global user education, technical discussion, and public-facing programming around emerging AI systems.

PERIOD: JULY 2024 – PRESENT // REMOTE
UTA_CS // TEACHING_ASSISTANT

Operating Systems Instruction

Supported 120+ students through office hours, review sessions, and course support for scheduling, synchronization, deadlocks, memory management, and file-system concepts.

PERIOD: JANUARY 2025 – MAY 2025 // UT ARLINGTON