Work/Volunteer Experience
Research, teaching, and communication.
I’ve worked across public research, academia, and industry, translating complex modeling systems into decision-support tooling and clear communication for non-technical audiences.
Research: USDA ARS
Teaching: UTA Operating Systems TA
Communication: OpenAI Engagement Manager
Work & Research
Full role descriptions and timelines are available in the PDF CV.
USDA ARS
Research Assistant (part-time)
July 2025 – Present
Developing a national HPAI early-warning system with county-level, one-month-ahead forecasts.
Engineering leakage-safe forecasting infrastructure: rolling retraining, forward-only ingestion, time-aware evaluation.
Rare-event modeling (~0.9% positives): calibrated thresholds, prevalence-aware ensembling, and cost-sensitive strategies.
Building decision-support tooling and diagnostic analyses, including calibration curves and prevalence-bias assessment.
USDA ARS
Research Assistant (internship)
May 2025 – July 2025
Built geospatial ML pipelines, classifying county-month HPAI presence across the U.S.
Developed imbalanced-learning + gradient-boosting ensembles and performed feature-importance and explanatory analyses to support modeling interpretability.
Presented outputs and diagnostics to national-level USDA scientists and program leadership to support operational surveillance.
OpenAI
Engagement Manager (part-time)
July 2024 – Present
Designing public-facing programs for OpenAI's largest online public community (800k+ users), supporting responsible AI usage and shared workflows.
Synthesizing user feedback to improve clarity around new product launches, reporting findings to upper management.
Emphasizing communication quality, translating technical concepts for worldwide audiences.
University of Texas at Arlington
Operating Systems Teaching Assistant
Jan 2025 – May 2025
Mentored ~120 students on OS fundamentals: concurrency, scheduling, deadlocks, memory management.
Held multiple weekly office hours, supporting students through debugging and systems design challenges.
Emphasized proper debugging techniques and large-scale system thinking principles.
Service & Leadership
Community-oriented roles at UT-Arlington
ACM @ UTA — Education Director
May 2025 – Present
Leads programming for workshops, mentoring, and career prep across all undergraduate levels.
Support learning outside the classroom through collaborative coding and mentorship programs.
The Wesley @ UTA — Board Representative
July 2024 – Present
Represents students' priorities in organizational decisions and planning.
Experience with deliberation, communication, and responsibility in a real governance setting.
Perplexity — Campus Partner
May 2025 – Dec 2025
Connects students with tools supporting learning, research, and creativity through outreach initiatives.
HackUTA — Experience Officer
Feb 2025 – Oct 2025
Organized workshops and participant programming for a large regional hackathon.