CV

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Education

Ph.D., in Computer Science, University of Utah (Current)
- Research Interest: AI/ML Security & Trustworthiness
M.S. in Computer Science, University of Mississippi 2024
- Thesis: On Interence-Time Adversaries in Object Detection Models
B.S. in Computer Science; Emphasis in Data Science, Minor in Mathematics; University of Mississippi, 2022
- Relevant Graduate-level Courses: Data Mining, Computer Architecture & Design, Compiler Design

Spring 2025 - Current Univ. of Utah:
- Topic: Vulnerabilities and defenses in AI in Autonomous Systems/Robotics applications
- Supervisor: Dr. Daniel Brown
Fall 2024 - Current Univ. of Utah:
- Topic: Generative model vulnerabilities and security
- Supervisor: Dr. Guanhong Tao
Masters @ Univ. of Mississippi (Fall 2023 - Spring 2024):
- Topics: Inference-Time Targeted Adversarial Attacks for Object Detectors, Genetic Algorithm Optimization for Image Reconstruction Tasks
- Supervisor: Dr. Charles Walter
Undergraduate Research Experience @ Univ. of Mississippi (Fall 2020 - Spring 2023)
- Worked across multiple labs on diverse research topics spanning systems, machine learning, and human–computer interaction. Projects included developing GPU-based concurrent data structures and task schedulers for high-performance computing (under Dr. Byunghyun Jang, improving ML model preprocessing and accuracy within the BatAlloc Framework (under Dr. Feng Wang), and studying perceptual illusions and AR tracking accuracy in immersive 3D environments (under Dr. J Adam Jones).

Fall 2025 - Current: Graduate Teaching Assistant
- University of Utah
- Courses: CS 4300: Artificial Intelligence
Spring 2024: Graduate Teaching Assistant
- University of Utah
- Courses: CS 5956-001: Intro to Machine Learning
Fall 2022 - Spring 2024: Graduate Teaching Assistant
- University of Mississippi
- Duties: Assist students, and grade programming assignments for various courses
- Courses: CSCI 111: Java 1, CSCI 211: Java 3, CSCI 444: Information Visualization in R, CSCI 475: Introduction to Database Systems, CSCI 356: Data Structures in Python
- Supervisor: Dr. Kristin Davidson
Summer 2023: Guest Lecturer
- University of Mississippi, HEROES Summer Research Program
- Supervisor: Dr. Byunghyun Jang
Spring 2022: CS Lab Teaching Assistant
- University of Mississippi
- Supervisors: Dr. Kristin Davidson
Spring 2020: Guest Lecturer
- ACM Intro to GitHub Workshop, University of Mississippi