University of Virginia

Ph.D. in Computer Science

Aug 2023 - Present

Charlottesville, Virginia

Syracuse University

Ph.D. Track Master of Science

Aug 2022 - July 2023

Syracuse, New York

Gordon College

B.S. in Computer Science

Aug 2019 - May 2022

Wenham, Massachusetts

NASA Langley Research Center

AI Research Associate

Oct 2025 - Present

• Mentors: Dr. James Warner
• Pioneering constrained generative modeling for wind velocity modeling, integrating physics-informed constraints into diffusion models to improve reliability and scalability of AI for real-world deployment.

Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia

Graduate Research Assistant

Aug 2023 - Present

• Mentor: Dr. Ferdinando Fioretto
• Researching generative AI and optimization, with emphasis on scalable diffusion methods for physics-aware models. This work led to top-tier publications (NeurIPS 2024, ICML 2025, NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight).

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Graduate Researcher

May 2024 - Aug 2024

• Mentors: Dr. Bhavya Kailkhura, Dr. Brian R. Bartoldson
• Designed discrete diffusion approaches to improve controllability and accelerate natural language generation. Collaboration with national lab scientists resulted in publications at NAACL 2025 (Oral) and NeurIPS 2025.

Department of Computer Science, Syracuse University

Graduate Research Assistant

Jan 2023 - July 2023

• Mentor: Dr. Ferdinando Fioretto
• Initiated research directions in differentiable optimization, leading to the work established while at UVA.

Solü Technology Partners

Software Engineer Co-op

Aug 2021 - May 2022

• Developed a web-based survey delivery application as part of a SCRUM team.
• Designed and implemented a comprehensive API test suite in Python.
• Tools used: Angular, HTML5, Kotlin, MongoDB, AWS.

BorgWarner

Software Developer

Nov 2020 - Jan 2021

• Created a product tracking GUI for an automotive manufacturing plant.
• Tools used: ASP.NET Core, SQL Server, JavaScript.