Welcome

I am a senior scientist supporting the U.S. Department of the Navy, with subject matter expertise in data science and governance, artificial intelligence / machine learning, autonomy, communications, sensing, and processing. Currently I am a program manager at the Office of Naval Research. Previous roles include chief data scientist, head of a machine learning software development group, and director of a research & development computer lab. I am an experienced researcher in my own right with a doctorate in pure computational mathematics and multiple published papers to my name.

My academic background is numerical methods and optimization, focused on complexity and computational scaling problems with applications in machine learning. In 2013 the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) selected me for their Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). I spent the Fall of 2015 collaborating with scientists at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, thanks to a Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW) award from the NSF and the Research Council of Norway (Forskningsrådet). I received my Ph.D. in Mathematics from Georgia Tech in 2017.

In my spare time I create software, write fiction, and play tabletop role-playing games.