Experience.
My experience spans infectious disease research, teaching, and technical communication. While I currently work in a professional research setting, my prior work has supported computer science education and large-scale community engagement initiatives.
Graduate Research Assistant
College of Veterinary MedicineI conduct graduate research in the Department of Pathobiology and Population Medicine under the advisement of Dr. Isaac Jumper. My thesis is a case-control study investigating associations between farm-level biosecurity practices and H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreaks among poultry operations in the Midwestern United States.
Alongside my thesis, I have continued developing and evaluating national-scale HPAI early-warning forecasting methods, including temporally constrained model evaluation, rare-event prediction, and analyses of predictive signal.
USDA Agricultural Research Service NACA fellowship · M.S. Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Population Medicine (Thesis)
Research Intern & Continuing Research
I began working with USDA ARS during a 10-week research internship in summer 2025. During that internship, my work focused on national-scale HPAI risk classification and pseudo-forecasting using observed future covariates. I developed geospatial machine learning pipelines integrating agricultural, environmental, and ecological data to investigate county-level outbreak risk.
My subsequent research has focused on evaluating whether predictive early-warning signals persist when models are restricted to information available at the time of forecasting. Alongside this work, I developed interactive dashboards designed to communicate county-level outbreak risk to poultry producers and state veterinarians. This work includes rolling-origin evaluation, comparison of modeling approaches, and feature sensitivity analyses.
Research presented to USDA ARS program leadership · UTA Innovation Day 2026 Judge's Choice Award
Operating Systems Teaching Assistant
I served as an undergraduate teaching assistant under Professor Bakker, supporting 120 students in CSE 3320 Operating Systems. During my two sets of weekly office hours, I helped debug assignments covering scheduling, memory management, and multithreading. I graded all assignments by developing custom automated Python scripts and proctored every exam for the course.
Engagement Manager
I led community engagement initiatives for OpenAI's largest online community (OpenAI Discord). My work included developing online, asynchronous events, writing bi-monthly newsletters for non-technical audiences about OpenAI product and research updates, synthesizing community feedback, and building key performance indicator (KPI) reports for senior management. I also attended OpenAI's DevDay 2025 as production staff, running the Discord server for all event attendees to help attendees navigate the event schedule and activities.
This role has stayed very close to my heart as it introduced me to the world of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML). Simultaneously, it gave me the opportunity to learn from and work alongside some of the brightest minds in the tech industry today.
Service & Leadership.
Education Director
Led ACM Educate, UTA's largest tech organization's educational initiative. In this role, I coordinated weekly technical workshops and career development events for an organization with more than 1000 members. I also directed a team of officers and oversaw the organization's mentor-mentee program.
Board of Directors Representative
Served as the sole student representative on the Wesley Board of Directors, participating in monthly board meetings, oversight of a $100K+ annual budget, and the director hiring process. This role allowed me to advocate for student needs before local United Methodist Church (UMC) leadership in the Horizon Texas Conference (HTC).
Student Advisory Council Member
I served alongside a dozen students student representatives for UTA's computer science and engineering department, bringing undergraduate perspectives to departmental leadership, including at the annual faculty retreat.