I am currently a Senior Research Associate (research faculty) at Virginia Tech and am part of the Sanghani Center there. I work in the realm of machine learning and artificial intelligence. These days a lot of my work revolves around Large Language Models (LLMs), time series forecasting, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to make predictions using unstructured data. It can be kind of hard to pin me down as I tend to work on a variety of projects. At work I describe myself as a jack of all trades and master of some or an AI/ML pinch hitter.Specialties: Machine Learning, Time-series forecasting, Social Media based predictions, Large Language Models, Retrieval Augmented Generation