Education
University of Virginia
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Aug. 2023–Present
Charlottesville, Virginia
Syracuse University
Ph.D. Track Master of Science
Aug. 2022–Jul. 2023
Syracuse, New York
Gordon College
B.S. in Computer Science
Aug. 2019–May 2022
Wenham, Massachusetts
Experience
NVIDIA
PhD Research Intern
Sept. 2026–Present
- Graduate researcher with the Applied Deep Learning Research (ADLR) team, with a focus on diffusion language models and speculative decoding.
Cerebras
Research Scientist Intern
Jun. 2026–Aug. 2026
- Researching and developing next-generation methods with the Core ML team for accelerating LLM inference with the support of Cerebras' state-of-the-art hardware and inference stack.
NASA Langley Research Center
AI Research Associate
Oct. 2025–Jan. 2026
- 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.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Graduate Researcher
May 2024–Aug. 2024
- 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.