🔬 Research Impact

• 📚 16+ Publications at top-tier venues
• 🏆 13 Papers Accepted in 2026 to ICML, ACL, CVPR, ITSC, and IEEE T-ITS
• 🎯 10+ Under Review / In Submission at NeurIPS, ECCV, ACL ARR, and IEEE T-ITS
• 🧑‍⚖️ Area Chair for ACL 2026 Industry Track
• 👥 Reviewer for NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ICCV, ICLR, ACM MM, WACV

💼 Industry Impact

• 🏢 Amazon Applied Scientist II (January 2026 - Present)
• 🏢 Amazon Applied Scientist Intern (Summer 2025)
• 🌾 35% Accuracy Boost in soil mapping
• 🚗 Iowa DOT Partnership for safety systems
• 💰 20% Cost Reduction via cloud optimization

🎥 Video-LLMs for Safety

• Crash detection systems
• Automated narrative generation
• Real-time video analysis
• Synthetic data simulation
• Published at TRC-30 '24

⚡ Model Efficiency

• Mamba state-space pruning
• Edge deployment optimization
• Cache-efficient sampling
• Resource-constrained AI
• 2 Papers at EMNLP '25
• Compression work accepted at ICML '26 & ACL '26

🧠 LLM Theory & Reasoning

• Counterfactual sensitivity
• Risk & conformal certification
• Reward function analysis
• Faithful reasoning
• 4 Papers at ICML '26, 4 at ACL '26 (accepted)

🎬 Computer Vision & Video Analytics

• Real-time crash detection with temporal localization
• HybridMamba for fine-grained action recognition
• All-weather image classification (CycleGAN + SigLIP-2)
• Change-point detection for action localization (CVPR '24)
• Ensemble learning for sidewalk detection (ITSC '23)
• LLM-Guided document layout analysis (CVPR '26)

🎯 Impact Metrics:

• 🏆 Featured in Iowa State News
• 📰 Covered by Des Moines Register
• ⚡ Improved emergency response times for Iowa DOT

🤖 Reinforcement Learning & Control

• Autonomous vehicle decision-making algorithms
• LLM-guided meta-prior RL for traffic signal synchronization (ITSC '26)
• Reward hacking detection & mitigation
• Multi-agent coordination systems

🛠️ Simulation Frameworks:

• 🚙 CARLA - Autonomous driving simulation
• 🛣️ SUMO - Traffic flow modeling
• 🏋️ Isaac Gym - Physics-based RL
• 🎮 OpenAI Gym - Custom environments

🏢 Industry Projects:

• ❄️ Iowa DOT Snowplow Navigation (ADAS)
• 🚨 Real-time Incident Detection Systems
• 🎥 Synthetic Crash Video Generation

🗺️ Precision Agriculture & Geospatial AI

• Soil Mapping Engine: Production system serving 10+ farms
• Performance: 35% accuracy improvement over baseline
• Cost Optimization: 20% speed increase with reduced hosting costs
• Cloud Integration: QGIS scripts for seamless AWS processing
• Stack: Python • QGIS • ArcGIS • AWS • PostgreSQL

🌍 Key Capabilities:

• Digital mapping & remote sensing
• Terrain modeling & spatial analytics
• Multi-source geospatial data fusion
• Real-time environmental monitoring

🌱 Environmental Data Science

• Climate data analysis & sustainability metrics
• Resource allocation optimization
• Crop yield prediction modeling
• ML-driven agricultural decision support

📊 Technical Stack:

Geospatial:  QGIS • ArcGIS • GDAL
Cloud:       AWS (S3, Lambda, Athena)
Processing:  Spark • PySpark • PostGIS
ML:          Scikit-learn • XGBoost
Viz:         Tableau • Plotly • Kepler.gl

💼 Industry Experience:

• 🏢 Data Scientist at SoilSerdem (2024)
• 🌾 Led cross-departmental ML initiatives
• 📈 Deployed production-grade prediction models

⚛️ Quantum Neural Networks

• Novel QNN architectures
• 10% boost in anomaly detection
• Zero-trust security frameworks
• Quantum algorithm design

🛠️ Frameworks:

• torchquantum
• Qiskit
• PennyLane
• StrawberryFields

📄 Publications:

• Measurement: Digitalization '25
• ECAI '25 (Quantum Spin Systems)

🧬 Biomedical AI Applications

• RL-guided CAR T-cell optimization
• Cellular behavior modeling
• Therapy parameter tuning
• Bio-monitoring with deep learning

📊 Research Impact:

• Published in Biotechnology and Bioengineering
• Heart/respiratory rate prediction
• Enzyme classification models

🔍 Theoretical Foundations

• Differentiable entropy regularization
• Self-supervised few-shot learning
• Conformal & risk certification
• Information-lift statistics
• Subspace-manifold methods (Grassmannian/Stiefel)

📝 In Submission:

• NeurIPS '26 (5 submissions)
• ACL ARR May '26 (6 submissions)
• Novel theoretical frameworks

GenAI-powered language learning platform with interactive exercises

Tech Stack: LangChain OpenAI Streamlit Python

Features:

• 💬 Conversational AI tutor
• 📝 Grammar correction
• 🎯 Personalized learning paths
• 🔊 Pronunciation feedback

Complete PyTorch implementation of Google's PaliGemma multimodal model

Tech Stack: PyTorch Transformers Computer Vision

Features:

• 🖼️ Vision-language understanding
• 🏗️ Built from architectural principles
• 📚 Educational annotations
• ⚡ Optimized inference

Lecturer
Dallas College
Aug 2025 - Jan 2026

Graduate Research Assistant
Iowa State University
Jan 2022 - May 2025

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Iowa State University
Jan 2024 - May 2025 (COM S 227, 576)

Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of Vermont
Aug 2019 - May 2020

Applied Scientist II
Amazon Inc.
Jan 2026 - Present

Applied Scientist Intern
Amazon Inc.
Jun 2025 - Aug 2025

Data Scientist
SoilSerdem
Jan 2024 - Dec 2024

Data Engineer Intern
Etalyc Inc.
May 2021 - Jul 2021

LLMs & Multimodal AI
Video understanding
Model efficiency

Transportation Safety
Crash detection
Autonomous systems

Precision Agriculture
Geospatial ML
Environmental analytics

Quantum Computing
QNN architectures
Security applications

✅ ICML 2026 (4 Papers)

• CalPro: Prior-Aware Evidential Conformal Prediction for Protein Structures
• What Reward Structure Enables Efficient Sparse-Reward RL?
• CGRiC: Compositional Risk Certification for Structured LLM Outputs
• Certificate-Guided Pruning for Stochastic Lipschitz Optimization

✅ ACL 2026 (4 Papers — 3 Main, 1 Findings)

• Adaptive Constraint Propagation (Main)
• Beyond Variance: Knowledge-Aware LLM Compression (Main)
• Causal Consistency Regularization (Main)
• Detecting Proxy Gaming in RL and LLM Alignment (Findings)

✅ IEEE/CVF CVPR 2026

• LLM-Guided Probabilistic Fusion for Label-Efficient Document Layout Analysis

✅ IEEE ITSC 2026 (2 Papers)

• Beyond Accuracy: Empirical Spectral Diagnostics for Crash Classification Models
• LLM-Guided Meta-Prior RL for Adaptive Traffic Signal Synchronization

✅ Journal Publications (2026)

• Image Segmentation with LLMs: Survey - IEEE T-ITS (IF 8.4)
• Improving Crash Data Quality via NLP - Journal of Safety Research (IF 4.8)

✅ ECAI 2025

• HMAE: Self-Supervised Few-Shot Learning for Quantum Spin Systems

✅ EMNLP 2025 (2 Papers)

• Efficient Unstructured Pruning of Mamba State-Space Models
• Cache-Efficient Posterior Sampling for RL with LLM-Derived Priors

✅ ITSC 2025 (2 Papers)

• ClearVision: All-Weather Classification in Traffic Imagery
• Expert-Aligned Evaluation of Crash Narrative Models

✅ Journal Publications

• Quantum-driven Zero Trust Architecture - Measurement: Digitalization (2025)
• RL-Guided CAR T-Cell Control - Biotechnology and Bioengineering (2024)

✅ IEEE/CVF CVPR 2024

• DeepLocalization: Change Point Detection for Temporal Action Localization

✅ IEEE ITSC 2023

• Robust Sidewalk Detection with Ensemble Learning

NeurIPS 2026 (5 Submissions)

• Learning to Forget Attention (CRAM)
• On the Sparsifiability of Correlation Clustering
• Grassmannian Mixture-of-Experts
• Auditing Near-Optimal Policies
• Topology-Aware State Abstraction

ACL ARR May 2026 (6 Submissions)

• Calibrated Adaptation: Bayesian Stiefel Manifold Priors
• Anytime-Valid Answer Sufficiency Certificates
• EST-PRM: Stress-Testing Process Reward Models
• Grounded Decoding for Faithful RAG
• Dynamic Proxy-Mixing
• Canonicalized Stable-List Replay

ECCV 2026 & IEEE T-ITS

• HybridMamba for Sub-Second Temporal Localization
• Temporal Zoom Networks
• Calibrated & Resource-Aware Super-Resolution

🎥 Computer Vision CVPR '24–'26
ICCV '25
WACV '26–'27

🧠 Machine Learning NeurIPS '26
ICML '26
ICLR '26
ECAI '25

💬 NLP ACL Industry Track '26 (Area Chair)
ACL ARR / EMNLP '26

🛣️ Transportation / Multimedia ITSC '23–'25
ACM MM '25–'26
IEEE ICVES '25

📊 Total Reviews: 30+ papers across 10+ top-tier venues • 🧑‍⚖️ Area Chair: ACL 2026 Industry Track

🏛️ University Service

• 👥 Graduate Student Representative
  Iowa State University CS Committee (2022-2023)
• 📚 Education Committee Member
  University of Vermont Graduate Senate (2019-2020)

🔬 Mentoring & Outreach

• 🎓 Actively mentoring 9 students & researchers across Iowa State, BRAC, KIIT, IUB, and Amazon
• ⚖️ Judge, State Science & Technology Fair of Iowa (2025)
• 📖 Guest lecturer for AI/ML courses

Languages

Python    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Java      ⭐⭐⭐⭐
SQL       ⭐⭐⭐⭐
C++       ⭐⭐⭐⭐
R         ⭐⭐⭐
Go        ⭐⭐⭐

Web Development

FastAPI    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Flask      ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Streamlit  ⭐⭐⭐⭐
React      ⭐⭐⭐

Databases

PostgreSQL     ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
MySQL          ⭐⭐⭐⭐
MongoDB        ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Elasticsearch  ⭐⭐⭐⭐
SQLite         ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Athena         ⭐⭐⭐

DevOps & Cloud

AWS         ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Docker      ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Git/GitHub  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Kubernetes  ⭐⭐⭐
Jenkins     ⭐⭐⭐
Terraform   ⭐⭐⭐

🔥 Deep Learning

• PyTorch ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• TensorFlow/Keras ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Scikit-learn ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• ONNX Runtime ⭐⭐⭐⭐

🎬 Computer Vision

• OpenCV ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• YOLO ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Detectron2 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• MMDetection ⭐⭐⭐

🤖 LLM & GenAI

• LangChain ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Ollama ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Azure Databricks ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• TorchServe ⭐⭐⭐
• Hugging Face ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

📊 Vector Databases

• Chroma ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Faiss ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Pinecone ⭐⭐⭐

🎮 RL & Simulation

• Ray/RLlib ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Stable Baselines3 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• CARLA ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• SUMO ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Isaac Gym ⭐⭐⭐
• OpenAI Gym ⭐⭐⭐⭐

🔄 Big Data Processing

Apache Spark      ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
PySpark          ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Hadoop           ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Apache Kafka     ⭐⭐⭐
ETL Pipelines    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
AWS Data Pipeline ⭐⭐⭐⭐

📊 Monitoring & Analytics

Splunk    ⭐⭐⭐
Datadog   ⭐⭐⭐

🗺️ GIS & Geospatial

QGIS                ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
ArcGIS              ⭐⭐⭐⭐
GDAL                ⭐⭐⭐⭐
PostGIS             ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Remote Sensing      ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Terrain Modeling    ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spatial Analytics   ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

📈 Visualization

Tableau     ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Matplotlib  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Plotly      ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Seaborn     ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Kepler.gl   ⭐⭐⭐

⚛️ Quantum Computing torchquantum
Qiskit
PennyLane
StrawberryFields

Novel QNN architectures for security applications

📊 Statistical Analysis R Studio
MATLAB
SciPy
StatsModels

Advanced statistical modeling and hypothesis testing

🎓 Research Tools LaTeX
Jupyter
Weights & Biases
MLflow

Experiment tracking and scientific writing