Experience
Harvard University
2024 -- present
Assistant Professor
Kempner Institute and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Databricks
2026 -- present
Research Scientist
Cornell University
2022 -- 2024
Postdoctoral Associate
Department of Computer Science
Microsoft Research
2021
Research Intern, Redmond
2020
Research Intern, Montréal
2019
Research Intern, NYC
2018
Research Intern, NYC
US Department of Defense
2015 -- 2017
Cyber Security Data Scientist
2011 -- 2015
Cyber Security Software Engineer
2010
Software Engineer Intern
Education
University of Maryland, College Park
2016 -- 2022
Ph.D., Computer Science
Advisor: Hal Daumé III.
Thesis title: Expert-In-The-Loop for Sequential Decisions and Predictions
New York University, Center for Data Science
2018 -- 2022
Visiting Researcher, Computer Science
Host: Kyunghyun Cho
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
2015 -- 2016
M.Sc. Computer Science
Thesis title: BCAP: A Pruning Technique to Reduce Over-fitting
2013 -- 2015
B.Sc. Computer Science
Minor in Mathematics
The Community College of Baltimore County
2011 -- 2013
A.A. Computer Science and Mathematics
Awards and Fellowships
2023
Spotlight Talk ICLR
2022
NSF Computing Innovation Fellowship (CIFellows)
2021
Spotlight talk, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
2021
Spotlight talk, International Conference on Learning Representations
2021
Spotlight talk, International Conference on Learning Representations
2021
2nd place, The New York Academy of Sciences Star Talks
2021
Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship
2020
Microsoft Dissertation Research Grant
2019
Spotlight Talk ICLR
2018
ACM SIGHPC/Intel Computational and Data Science Fellowship
2017
Sloan Research Fellowship
2016
Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Bridge to the Doctorate Program Fellowship
2016
University of Maryland College Park Dean’s Fellowship
2015
Department of Defense Graduate Fellowship
2013
Transfer-Scholarships in Information Technology and Engineering (T-SITE) Scholar
2013
Maryland Senators and Delegates Scholarship
2013
Transfer Student Alliance Scholarship
2013
Howard P. Rawlings Educational Assistance Grant
2013
CCBC Foundation General Scholarship
You can view my CV Here.