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University of St. Thomas

M.S. Artificial Intelligence

September 2024 - Present

St. Paul, MN

Indiana University

B.S., Computer Science

August 2016 - December 2020

Bloomington, IN

Concentrations:

• Artificial Intelligence
• Data Science

Minors:

• Linguistics
• Computational Linguistics

Cornell University

Certificate, Machine Learning

May - September 2023

Links:

• PDF Credential

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Certificate, Machine Learning in Business

March - May 2022

Links:

• Online Credential
• PDF Copy of Credential

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

November 2020

Lead author of a paper investigating the role of bias in abusive language detection. Submitted to the 4th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms, colocated with the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. It was concurrently published in The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Anthology.

Links:

• Research Paper (ACL Online Copy)
• PDF Copy of Research Paper

SANS Institute Threat Hunting & Incident Response (THIR) Summit

September 2020

Wrote code to search for evidence of beacon hunting and perform statistical analysis on historical Windows machine logs as part of a red team exercise. This research resulted in a personal invite to represent Target at SANS’ Threat Hunting & IR Summit 2020.

Links:

• YouTube Recording

Speech Synthesis for the Chuvash Language with Deep Neural Networks

I trained a few popular speech synthesizers to produce intelligible Chuvash audio clips from written samples of the language. I used Python as the primary programming language and R for processing non-audio data. Special permission was granted to train neural networks for each speech synthesis solution on IU's Big Red II supercomputer.

This was the final project project for LING-L 445 "Computation and Linguistic Analysis," a graduate level course.

Links:

• Submitted Paper
• Request for Proposal (RFP)
• Code & Assets

TechPointX Xbot Digital Assistant Data Analysis

I used R to observe trends in a provided dataset and wrote a report to discuss my findings. This was part of the data science technical screening for the Xtern Summer 2019 internship program. I passed the screening and earned a spot in the Xtern Class of 2019 as a Software Engineer.

View the report here.

Web Development Projects for Xtern Bootcamp 2018

I worked on 4 projects for Xtern Bootcamp 2018 that utilized a mix of HTML, JavaScript, the ReactJS library, and CSS.

1. Chrismess
• Served as an introduction to the DOM and DOM Manipulation.
• Source Code
2. Dwarf Underground
• Exercise in translating vanilla HTML and JavaScript to React components and JSX.
• Source Code
• API Party (Code, WIP)
• Exercise in API usage; abandoned in favor of Chatarang due to limited time.
3. Chatarang
• Chat app that utilizes Firebase for GitHub/Google authentication and message storage in a database.
• Source Code

Jungle: Java-Based Marketplace

An Amazon-esque marketplace written in Java by a team of three. Jungle lets you register as a buyer or seller, list items for sale, buy items, receive shipping notifications, manage your account, and more. It uses CSV files to keep an offline database of accounts and inventory.

Final project for CSCI-C 212 "Software Systems".

Porto Seguro Safe Driver Prediction

Used data provided by Brazilian auto insurance company Porto Seguro to predict the probability of a driver initiating an insurance claim in the next year. Used R for data preprocessing and Python to train an XGBoost model.

Final project for CSCI-B 365 "Data Mining and Analysis". View the report here.

Cryptocurrency Analysis AI

Developed an AI in a team of two that predicts when to buy and sell popular cryptocurrencies. I used R for data preprocessing, Python for creating a framework, and the TensorFlow library for training a recurrent neural network (RNN) model.

Final project for CSCI-B 351 "Intro to Artificial Intelligence". View the report here.

Dean's List

Significant academic distinction given to those who attain a high grade point average.

Hudson and Holland Scholar

Distinction given to underrepresented minority students at IU who are, in the program's words, "leaders and model citizens of the campus community."

Hispanic Scholarship Fund Scholar

Distinction and award given to students who are, in the organization's words, "among the best and brightest Latino students in the country."