Working in the Computer Vision Research Lab at the University of Notre Dame. Primary focus is iris biometrics with a emphasis on understanding and mitigating the effects due to pupil dilation.

• Summer Internship• Performed research and algorithm development in iris biometrics in order to mitigate the effects of pupil dilation.

• Responsibilities: Researcher and Project Manager • Managed research team in order to facilitate and coordinate project deliverables• Continued part-time as project manager through March 2013

• Responsibilities: Algorithm Developer, Research Supervisor for Graduate Assistants• Researched and developed vehicle health diagnostic and prognostic algorithms• Applied statistical machine learning techniques to detect trends and estimate a vehicle‟s health based on observed parameters, usage, and historical maintenance records

• Researched Machine Learning Algorithms• Examined pattern recognition and clustering algorithms such as self organizing feature maps, k-means clustering, and neural networks for the development of a fault detection schemes