THEME
SYSTEM_READY
ENTRY_DATE: 0000.00.00
RESEARCH: USDA_ARS
INDUSTRY: OPENAI
STATION: UTA_CS
OBSERVATION_04 // FIELD_EXPERIENCE

Research,
Teaching,
and Comms.

USDA_ARS // RESEARCH_ASSISTANT (PART-TIME)

Developing county-level HPAI classification and one-month-ahead forecasting systems for proactive outbreak response. Engineering walk-forward retraining, leakage-safe feature pipelines, and rare-event evaluation for operational use.

PERIOD: JULY 2025 – PRESENT // UT_ARLINGTON
USDA_ARS // RESEARCH_ASSISTANT (INTERNSHIP)

Built the county-month machine learning framework across the conterminous United States, integrating environmental, climatological, and geospatial features. Presented feature-importance and diagnostic results to USDA scientists and program leadership.

PERIOD: MAY 2025 – JULY 2025 // UT_ARLINGTON
OPENAI // ENGAGEMENT_MANAGER (CONTRACT)

Designing public-facing programs for OpenAI's largest online community of 850k+ users. Synthesizing feedback for technical product launches and reporting KPIs to upper management.

PERIOD: JULY 2024 – PRESENT // REMOTE
UTA_CS // OPERATING_SYSTEMS_TA (PART-TIME)

Mentoring ~120 students on multi-threading, scheduling, and memory management. Held multiple weekly office hours, emphasizing low-level debugging techniques via GDB.

PERIOD: JAN 2025 – MAY 2025 // UT_ARLINGTON