About
Experience
- 2021 — presentSenior Lead AI/ML EngineerBooz Allen Hamilton · Philadelphia, PA
- Served as the AI/ML lead on a $10M Other Transactional Authority (OTA) capture from the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to perform bio-surveillance for the Defense Health Agency (DHA).
- Developed a technique to reverse-engineer blackbox AI models using adversarial AI.
- Co-authored a paper dissecting DeepSeek's R1 model and providing firm-wide guidance on foreign LLMs.
- Researched and implemented novel AI/ML techniques primarily focused on LLMs and reinforcement learning, including two GitHub-based LLM agents to streamline the software development lifecycle, and a state-of-the-art transformer-based multimodal deepfake detection model demoed to the DIU.
- Created a specialized RAG pipeline for writing proposals to contracts that was presented to Booz Allen's C-suite.
- Performed research in differential privacy, and managed an HPC compute environment that's used for Booz Allen's most compute-heavy, on-prem workloads.
- 2020 — 2021Business AnalystStreamliners Management Consulting · Wilmington, DE
- Specialized in mathematical optimization models using Python.
- Expanded a warehouse optimization system across the Northeast region.
- Summer 2020Research Assistant, AstrophysicsVillanova University · Villanova, PA
- Developed a data pipeline for astrophysical time-series classification.
- Implemented unsupervised neural networks and clustering algorithms.
Education
- May 2021B.S. Astrophysics & MathematicsVillanova University · GPA 3.79 / 4.0
- Minors in Business and Physics.
- Dean's List, all semesters.
- Sigma Pi Sigma (Physics) · Pi Mu Epsilon (Math) · Phi Beta Kappa.
Technical Proficiencies
- AI / ML
- PyTorch, Tinygrad, GenAI, LLMs, RAG, Adversarial AI, Reinforcement Learning
- Programming
- Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript
- Infrastructure
- HPC management, Slurm, Kubernetes, Linux/UNIX, Windows, macOS
- Tools
- MS Office, Tableau, Palantir Foundry