🔬 Research Impact

• 📚 10+ Publications at top-tier venues
• 🏆 6 Papers Accepted to ECAI, EMNLP, ITSC 2025
• 🎯 5+ Under Review at top conferences
• 👥 Reviewer for CVPR, ICCV, ICLR, ACM MM, ICML

💼 Industry Impact

• 🏢 Amazon Applied Scientist (January 2026 - Present)
• 🏢 Amazon Applied Scientist Intern (Summer 25)
• 🌾 35% Accuracy Boost in soil mapping
• 🚗 Iowa DOT Partnership for safety systems
• 💰 20% Cost Reduction via cloud optimization

🎥 Video-LLMs for Safety

• Crash detection systems
• Automated narrative generation
• Real-time video analysis
• Synthetic data simulation
• Published at TRC-30 '24

⚡ Model Efficiency

• Mamba state-space pruning
• Edge deployment optimization
• Cache-efficient sampling
• Resource-constrained AI
• 2 Papers at EMNLP '25
• 4 Papers at ACL '26 (under review)

🧠 LLM Theory & Reasoning

• Counterfactual sensitivity
• Risk certification methods
• Reward function analysis
• Faithful reasoning
• 6 Papers at ACL '26 and ICLR '26 (under review)

🎬 Computer Vision & Video Analytics

• Real-time crash detection with temporal localization
• HybridMamba for fine-grained action recognition
• All-weather image classification (CycleGAN + SigLIP-2)
• Change-point detection for action localization (CVPR '24)
• Ensemble learning for sidewalk detection (ITSC '23)

🎯 Impact Metrics:

• 🏆 Featured in Iowa State News
• 📰 Covered by Des Moines Register
• ⚡ Improved emergency response times for Iowa DOT

🤖 Reinforcement Learning & Control

• Autonomous vehicle decision-making algorithms
• RL for traffic signal synchronization
• Reward hacking detection & mitigation
• Multi-agent coordination systems

🛠️ Simulation Frameworks:

• 🚙 CARLA - Autonomous driving simulation
• 🛣️ SUMO - Traffic flow modeling
• 🏋️ Isaac Gym - Physics-based RL
• 🎮 OpenAI Gym - Custom environments

🏢 Industry Projects:

• ❄️ Iowa DOT Snowplow Navigation (ADAS)
• 🚨 Real-time Incident Detection Systems
• 🎥 Synthetic Crash Video Generation

🗺️ Precision Agriculture & Geospatial AI

• Soil Mapping Engine: Production system serving 10+ farms
• Performance: 35% accuracy improvement over baseline
• Cost Optimization: 20% speed increase with reduced hosting costs
• Cloud Integration: QGIS scripts for seamless AWS processing
• Stack: Python • QGIS • ArcGIS • AWS • PostgreSQL

🌍 Key Capabilities:

• Digital mapping & remote sensing
• Terrain modeling & spatial analytics
• Multi-source geospatial data fusion
• Real-time environmental monitoring

🌱 Environmental Data Science

• Climate data analysis & sustainability metrics
• Resource allocation optimization
• Crop yield prediction modeling
• ML-driven agricultural decision support

📊 Technical Stack:

Geospatial:  QGIS • ArcGIS • GDAL
Cloud:       AWS (S3, Lambda, Athena)
Processing:  Spark • PySpark • PostGIS
ML:          Scikit-learn • XGBoost
Viz:         Tableau • Plotly • Kepler.gl

💼 Industry Experience:

• 🏢 Data Scientist at SoilSerdem (2024)
• 🌾 Led cross-departmental ML initiatives
• 📈 Deployed production-grade prediction models

⚛️ Quantum Neural Networks

• Novel QNN architectures
• 10% boost in anomaly detection
• Zero-trust security frameworks
• Quantum algorithm design

🛠️ Frameworks:

• torchquantum
• Qiskit
• PennyLane
• StrawberryFields

📄 Publications:

• Measurement: Digitalization '25
• ECAI '25 (Quantum Spin Systems)

🧬 Biomedical AI Applications

• RL-guided CAR T-cell optimization
• Cellular behavior modeling
• Therapy parameter tuning
• Bio-monitoring with deep learning

📊 Research Impact:

• Published in Biotechnology and Bioengineering
• Heart/respiratory rate prediction
• Enzyme classification models

🔍 Theoretical Foundations

• Differentiable entropy regularization
• Self-supervised few-shot learning
• Reward function structure analysis
• Information-lift statistics

📝 Under Review:

• ICLR '26 (3 submissions)
• Novel theoretical frameworks
• Geometry + neural networks

🇯🇵 Japanese Language Portal

GenAI-powered language learning platform with interactive exercises

Tech Stack: LangChain OpenAI Streamlit Python

Features:

• 💬 Conversational AI tutor
• 📝 Grammar correction
• 🎯 Personalized learning paths
• 🔊 Pronunciation feedback

🤖 PaliGemma from Scratch

Complete PyTorch implementation of Google's PaliGemma multimodal model

Tech Stack: PyTorch Transformers Computer Vision

Features:

• 🖼️ Vision-language understanding
• 🏗️ Built from architectural principles
• 📚 Educational annotations
• ⚡ Optimized inference

🤖 Machine Learning & AI

🛠️ Systems & Applications

🎓 Academia

Lecturer
Dallas College
Aug 2025 - Jan 2026

Graduate Research Assistant
Iowa State University
Jan 2022 - May 2025

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Iowa State University
Aug 2020 - Dec 2021

Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of Vermont
Aug 2019 - May 2020

🏢 Industry

Applied Scientist
Amazon Inc.
Jan 2026 - Present

Applied Scientist Intern
Amazon Inc.
Jun 2025 - Aug 2025

Data Scientist
SoilSerdem
Jan 2024 - Dec 2024

Data Engineer Intern
Etalyc Inc.
May 2021 - Jul 2021

AI Trainee
Training Program
Oct 2018 - Feb 2019

🔬 Research Focus

LLMs & Multimodal AI
Video understanding
Model efficiency

Transportation Safety
Crash detection
Autonomous systems

Precision Agriculture
Geospatial ML
Environmental analytics

Quantum Computing
QNN architectures
Security applications

✅ ECAI 2025

• HMAE: Self-Supervised Few-Shot Learning for Quantum Spin Systems

✅ EMNLP 2025 (2 Papers)

• Efficient Unstructured Pruning of Mamba State-Space Models
• Cache-Efficient Posterior Sampling for RL with LLM-Derived Priors

✅ ITSC 2025 (2 Papers)

• ClearVision: All-Weather Classification in Traffic Imagery
• Expert-Aligned Evaluation of Crash Narrative Models

✅ Journal Publications

• Quantum-driven Zero Trust Architecture - Measurement: Digitalization (2025)
• RL-Guided CAR T-Cell Control - Biotechnology and Bioengineering (2024)

✅ IEEE CVPR 2024

• DeepLocalization: Change Point Detection for Temporal Action Localization

✅ IEEE ITSC 2023

• Robust Sidewalk Detection with Ensemble Learning

CVPR 2026
(2 Submissions)

• Adaptive Temporal Refinement: Continuous Depth Allocation and Distance Regression for Efficient Action Localization
• LLM-Guided Probabilistic Fusion for Label-Efficient Document Layout Analysis

ACL 2026
(5 Submissions)

• Reward Function Structure
• Counterfactual Sensitivity
• Risk Certification for LLMs
• Adaptive Constraint Propagation: Scaling Structured Inference for Large Language Models via Meta-Reinforcement Learning
• Beyond Variance: Knowledge-Aware LLM Compression via Fisher-Aligned Subspace Diagnostics

ICML 2026
(6 Submissions)

• CalPro: Prior-Aware Evidential Conformal Prediction with Structure-Aware Sensitivity Bounds for Protein Structures
• Differentiable Entropy Regularization
• What Reward Structure Enables Efficient Sparse-Reward RL? A Proof-of-Concept with Policy-Aware Matrix Completion
• Selective Risk Certification for LLM Outputs via Information-Lift Statistics: PAC-Bayes, Robustness, and Skeleton Design
• CGRiC: Compositional Risk Certification for Structured LLM Outputs
• Certificate-Guided Pruning for Stochastic Lipschitz Optimization

IEEE ITS Transaction
(2 Submissions)

• HybridMamba for Temporal Localization
• Image Segmentation with LLMs Survey

Other Venues

• Journal of Safety Research

🎥 Computer Vision

CVPR '24, '25, '26
ICCV '25
WACV '26

🧠 Machine Learning

ICLR '26
ECAI '25 ICML '26

🖼️ Multimedia

ACM MM '25

🛣️ Transportation

ITSC '23, '24, '25 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2026

💬 NLP

EACL '26

📊 Total Reviews: 30+ papers across 8 top-tier conferences

🏛️ University Service

• 👥 Graduate Student Representative
  Iowa State University CS Committee (2022-2023)
• 📚 Education Committee Member
  University of Vermont Graduate Senate (2019-2020)

🔬 Community Outreach

• ⚖️ Judge, State Science & Technology Fair of Iowa (2025)
• 🎓 Mentor for undergraduate research projects
• 📖 Guest lecturer for AI/ML courses

Languages

Python    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Java      ⭐⭐⭐⭐
SQL       ⭐⭐⭐⭐
C++       ⭐⭐⭐⭐
R         ⭐⭐⭐
Go        ⭐⭐⭐

Web Development

FastAPI    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Flask      ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Streamlit  ⭐⭐⭐⭐
React      ⭐⭐⭐

Databases

PostgreSQL     ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
MySQL          ⭐⭐⭐⭐
MongoDB        ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Elasticsearch  ⭐⭐⭐⭐
SQLite         ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Athena         ⭐⭐⭐

DevOps & Cloud

AWS         ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Docker      ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Git/GitHub  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Kubernetes  ⭐⭐⭐
Jenkins     ⭐⭐⭐
Terraform   ⭐⭐⭐

🔥 Deep Learning

• PyTorch ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• TensorFlow/Keras ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Scikit-learn ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• ONNX Runtime ⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎬 Computer Vision

• OpenCV ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• YOLO ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Detectron2 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• MMDetection ⭐⭐⭐

🤖 LLM & GenAI

• LangChain ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Ollama ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Azure Databricks ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• TorchServe ⭐⭐⭐
• Hugging Face ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

📊 Vector Databases

• Chroma ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Faiss ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Pinecone ⭐⭐⭐

🎮 RL & Simulation

• Ray/RLlib ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Stable Baselines3 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• CARLA ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• SUMO ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Isaac Gym ⭐⭐⭐
• OpenAI Gym ⭐⭐⭐⭐

🔄 Big Data Processing

Apache Spark      ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
PySpark          ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Hadoop           ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Apache Kafka     ⭐⭐⭐
ETL Pipelines    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
AWS Data Pipeline ⭐⭐⭐⭐

📊 Monitoring & Analytics

🗺️ GIS & Geospatial

QGIS                ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
ArcGIS              ⭐⭐⭐⭐
GDAL                ⭐⭐⭐⭐
PostGIS             ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Remote Sensing      ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Terrain Modeling    ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spatial Analytics   ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

📈 Visualization

Tableau     ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Matplotlib  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Plotly      ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Seaborn     ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Kepler.gl   ⭐⭐⭐

⚛️ Quantum Computing

torchquantum
Qiskit
PennyLane
StrawberryFields

Novel QNN architectures for security applications

📊 Statistical Analysis

R Studio
MATLAB
SciPy
StatsModels

Advanced statistical modeling and hypothesis testing

🎓 Research Tools

LaTeX
Jupyter
Weights & Biases
MLflow

Experiment tracking and scientific writing