Initially as part of a Clemson capstone team, worked to compress four efficient encoder-only transformer language models via knowledge distillation. Work was later published in my first academic paper, "Efficient Transformer Knowledge Distillation: A Performance Review", which was accepted to the EMNLP 2023 conference and presented in Singapore.

Security Analyst Intern under Clemson's Cybersecurity Operations Center. Responsible for actively monitoring and responding to security alerts and notices, identifying incoming security incidents, identifying compromised systems and users, reviewing vulnerability reports, and responding to and researching reports of phishing incidents.Investigated web app vulnerabilities in Clemson services, identifying and remedying previously unknown privilege escalation vulnerabilities which would allow an attacker to gain unrestricted admin privileges on certain Clemson web services.