Curriculum Vitae

System Engineer, Lead

ICONS (formerly Institute for Software Integrated Systems), Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

• Created and lead Betty's Math, a SvelteKit/TypeScript math assessment and AI-tutoring platform embedded in the OECD's PILA and deployed in a randomized controlled trial across hundreds of schools in France, Germany, the Slovak Republic and Latvia.
• Integrated an LLM tutor into the student experience, with context built from the problem, the student's current solution, a learner model and progress statistics, plus persistent chat history and prompt logging for evaluation.
• Built LLM pipelines (Claude, GPT) that translate problems, concepts and misconceptions for a four-country deployment and generate knowledge graphs used to assign students to concepts.
• Built the platform's research layer (RCT sequencing, xAPI event logging and a real-time teacher dashboard), working directly with the OECD team on wording, translations and dashboard design.
• Lead SyncFlow, an open-source Rust/Next.js/WebRTC platform that sustains 200 concurrent streams at about 200 ms latency and has archived 400+ hours (more than 10 TB) of classroom data for 1,000+ researchers and students.
• Deployed SyncFlow in classroom studies across Indiana, Tennessee and North Carolina for the NSF AI Institute for Engaged Learning, on Amazon ECS and on-premises, and integrated the C2STEM, SPICE, Crystal Island and EcoJourneys learning environments.
• Building real-time AI feedback for classrooms: speech recognition (NVIDIA Riva, AWS Transcribe), computer vision on edge and cloud, and on-device LLM summarization of live classroom transcripts on NVIDIA Jetson.

Research Engineer, Senior

Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS), Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

• Designed and built SyncFlow from scratch, re-architecting ChimeraPy's cluster-based design into a cloud-first WebRTC platform. Wrote its Rust API, Next.js dashboard, desktop capture app (Tauri, GStreamer) and Node.js and Python client libraries.
• Co-developed ChimeraPy, a Python/ZeroMQ distributed streaming framework for real-time multimodal data, used by 100+ people in Nashville-area classroom studies. Built its orchestration layer, SvelteKit dashboard and pipeline library.
• Developed deep active learning and surrogate models for underwater vehicle hull design optimization with a combined CAD–CFD simulation pipeline.

Research Engineer

Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS), Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

• Core contributor to DeepForge (700+ GitHub stars), an NSF-funded visual environment for deep learning pipelines. Led its Keras parser modernization and Svelte web components.
• First author of a DeepForge study reproducing CNN-based photometric redshift estimation on SDSS galaxy images, later turned into tutorials in the official docs.
• Led development of GMSO, the core topology library of the NSF-funded MoSDeF ecosystem. Created forcefield-utilities and set up CI, Docker publishing and release tooling across MoSDeF libraries.
• Built Symbench Circuit Maker for DARPA's Symbiotic Design for CPS program, a web-based circuit design studio that uses deep learning to predict the next likely component. Also built a Python client for scripted UAV design evaluation and Fusepack, a genetic-algorithm component placement tool for UAV fuselages.

Graduate Research Assistant

College of Applied Sciences and Arts, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

• Built a data insights dashboard for the aviation department and published on incentivized IoT service sharing with OSGi and Hashgraph.

M.S., Data Science (part-time)

Vanderbilt University

M.S., Computer Science

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

B.E., Electronics and Communication Engineering

Institute of Engineering, Thapathali Campus, Tribhuvan University