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Santa Clara, California, United States

• Working on Amazon Bedrock & SageMaker AI/ML Services (Human-in-the-Loop)

Blacksburg, Virginia, United States

• 𝐓𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐜𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡.• Prepared & presented lectures on operating systems, Linux, networks, virtual machines, containers, and other core cybersecurity concepts.

Santa Clara, California, United States

• Developed an end-to-end LLM evaluation framework with support for both automated and human evaluators (serving as an early POC for new AI features within SageMaker)• This mainly involved Amazon SageMaker, Hugging Face, Lambda and S3.• Also experimented with LangChain and RAG for more intelligent and evolving eval systems.

Lexington, Virginia, United States

• 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲.• Building educational cybersecurity experiences with extended reality environments and digital twins.• Mentored undergraduate and high school students in a semester-long cyber workforce development program.

Santa Clara, California, United States

• 𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐲 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦'𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐬• Learned directly from some of the industry's best scientists and developers in the AI/ML space.• Added new experimental tools to one of the existing ML products at AWS AI.• Built a proof-of-concept ML application from the ground up that my team will continue to develop and use in future experiments and potential products.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

• 𝐋𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐤𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬.• Gained significant experience recruiting, interviewing, and leading a software team of over 20 undergraduate students from across the United States.• Taught team members full stack technologies through written tutorials and live demos.• Worked directly with the CEO and other core members to expand our services into new markets.

Alexandria, Virginia, United States

• 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧-𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐧𝐩𝐦 𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜, 𝐲𝐞𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐞.• Wrote comprehensive unit and functional tests for the library using Jest and Selenium.• Practiced Agile and Scrum methodologies.

Blacksburg, Virginia, United States

• 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐡𝐃 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐦 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 (𝐒𝐀𝐒) 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 (𝐂𝐁𝐑𝐒) 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞‑𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐬.• Researched the technical requirements of the SAS and CBRS Protocol, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the existing industry solutions. Compiled these findings into comprehensive documents that were used as guidelines throughout the design and development processes.• Integrated Google Map APIs into their existing Angular web app to visualize the nearby spectrum allocation.• Gained experience developing with the Google Cloud Console.

Blacksburg, Virginia, United States

• 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐡 𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞-𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐬.• Using GNU Radio and ZeroMQ, developed a program to calculate drone positions within the network that used over 50% less CPU resources than the existing program in use.• Gained experience working with Linux systems and software-defined radios.

Roanoke, Virginia, United States

• 𝗡𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟖 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘃𝗿𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀.• Worked alongside traffic modeling specialists to predict the impact of a proposed ramp construction project on the traffic congestion at nearby intersections in Charlottesville, Virginia.• Created an extensive Excel spreadsheet that the department now uses to quickly access detailed information on any bridge in their region.• Researched the historical significance of a local bridge scheduled to be rebuilt and compiled these findings into a written report that was provided to engineers overseeing the bridge's reconstruction.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science, 3.95

Master Degree of Science in Computer Science (Thesis option). Conducted research around AI, cybersecurity, and HCI. Relevant Courses: •.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science, 3.71

Activities and Societies: Varsity Football Team, Undergraduate ResearchGraduated a year early with Magna Cum Laude honors from the College.

Chemistry, 4.0

Completed one online course.

General Studies, 4.0

Completed several dual enrollment and online classes while still in high school.