Education

Skills

Professional experience

1. Graduate Research Assistant

   Aug 2025 – Present

   Virginia Tech — Grado Dept. of Industrial & Systems Engineering

   Blacksburg, VA

   • Developing stochastic optimization models (SDDIP, MILP, Julia/JuMP/SDDP.jl) for dispatching mobile power sources under hurricane forecast uncertainty — informing grid-resilience decisions for utility operators.
   • Extending Empirical Residual Sample Average Approximation to the multi-stage setting for Contextual Stochastic Optimization.
   • Built a literature-review pipeline that scrapes Google Scholar and uses a local LLM to rate relevance; performed a large-scale review of the contextual stochastic optimization field.

2. Undergraduate Researcher

   Feb 2024 – May 2025

   University of Illinois — Industrial & Systems Engineering

   Urbana, IL

   • Worked with Profs. Chrysafis Vogiatzis and Eleftheria Kontou on fairness of automated traffic enforcement in Chicago.
   • Formulated and implemented optimization models in Python / GurobiPy; achieved a 700× runtime improvement over the initial solver pipeline.
   • Modeled Chicago's street network with OSMNX / NetworkX and computed demographics across 800+ Census Tracts with GeoPandas.

3. Undergraduate Researcher & Lead Developer

   Jul 2024 – May 2025

   University of Illinois — Mechanical Science & Engineering

   Urbana, IL

   • Led software development on a SIIP-funded initiative producing open educational resources for Introductory Mechanics.
   • Analyzed Google Analytics and survey data to quantify learning impact; results published in ASEE conference proceedings.

4. Fire Safety Engineering Intern

   May 2023 – Jul 2023

   Ingérop

   Paris, France

   • Conducted CFD fire-safety simulations (PyroSim / FDS) on multiple subway stations for the €40B Grand Paris project — including La Défense and Nanterre La-Boule, among the largest in the program.
   • Built the UI and API for an internal pressure-wave modeling tool with Flask, JS, HTML & CSS.

5. Course Assistant & PrairieLearn Developer

   Jan 2023 – May 2025

   University of Illinois — Mechanical Science & Engineering

   Urbana, IL

   • Led weekly discussion sections and office hours for introductory mechanics.
   • Authored 25 new PrairieLearn homework/exam questions and built tooling enabling faster question development with unlimited variations.

Projects

1. Creator & Lead Developer

   Jan 2025 – May 2025

   Genfare Backend Stress-tester — Senior Design Project

   Urbana, IL

   • Built a Flask + Socket.IO orchestration server that provisions Docker bridge networks on demand and launches pairs of clients & gRPC communication containers, enabling concurrent load simulation of transit fare-collection infrastructure at scale.
   • Implemented the full Genfare FF25 FastFare device lifecycle in the simulated client: device configuration, cloud registration, quality control check, and repeated transactions over gRPC, replicating how physical fareboxes authenticate and submit fares against the company backend.
   • Designed a real-time web dashboard (Bootstrap + Plotly + Socket.IO) backed by SQLite, with live transaction-throughput counters, per-device health tracking, and full simulation lifecycle management (spawn, monitor, stop, delete).

Awards & Fellowships

• ★ AI-SCORE Invitation & Travel Award AI-SCORE — 2026
• ★ Rehmert-Nachlas Graduate Fellowship Virginia Tech Grado Dept. of Industrial Engineering
• ★ John F. Sweers Graduate Fellowship Virginia Tech Grado Dept. of Industrial Engineering
• ★ Operations Research Undergraduate Student Research Dissemination Award IISE — 2025
• ★ Dean's List — College of Engineering (7× recipient) University of Illinois Grainger College of Engineering
• ★ Outstanding Student Contributor to Engineering Education Efforts AE3, University of Illinois Grainger College of Engineering