Education

Experience

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory - Professional Staff

August 2023 - Present

  • Realtime object detection and tracking for electro-optical and infrared sensors
  • Geospatial foundation models
  • Multimodal models for multispectral video, audio, and text

Deep Forest Sciences - Research Scientist

October 2022 - May 2023

  • Integrating Alphafold technology with DeepChem to enable protein based drug discovery
  • Development of ChemBERTa-3, a large scale self-supervised molecular property prediction model

Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at FAU - Graduate Research Assistant

September 2021 - Present

  • Design and implementation of the Hybrid Aerial and Underwater Robotic System (HAUCS) for aquaculture monitoring.
  • Development of a prediction algorithm for dissolved oxygen levels in aquaculture ponds
  • Development of a lidar tracking simulation to develop new techniques for 3D point cloud object tracking and super resolution
  • Development of a computer vision algorithm to remove ocean surface wave distortions to better observe underwater objects and bioluminescence

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory - Intern

May 2022 - August 2022

  • Implemented object detection and tracking algorithms for shipboard electro-optical and infrared sensors
  • Development of semi-supervised learning algorithms for identifying 56 classes of ship with weakly labeled data

Google Summer of Code - Mentor

May 2022 - September 2022

  • Mentored students in contributing to DeepChem, an open-source machine learning library for drug discovery.

Motorola Solutions, Inc. - Mechanical Engineer

September 2019 - May 2021

  • Developed mechanical components for the APX NEXT radio and APX 8000 radio.
  • Maintained current product lines with customer informed design changes and improvements.

US Army - Infantry Officer - 11A

December 2016 – September 2019

  • Planned and executed tactical and strategic training operations at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany.
  • Maintained inventory and accountability of over $1 million worth of equipment.