Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science
University of Notre Dame
2021 - Present
Arthur J. Schmitt Leadership Fellowship
B.S. in Computer Science
Drexel University
2017 - 2021
Magna Cum Laude • Minors: Mathematics, Psychology
Programs & Fellowships
Research Fellow
SPAR (Supervised Program for Alignment Research) · Remote
Selected as a SPAR Research Fellow to work under the supervision of Georg Lange, conducting research on mechanistic interpretability, specifically investigating whether cross-layer transcoders faithfully capture model computations.
Participant
ARENA 7.0 (Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator) · London, UK
Participated in a selective alignment research training program covering mechanistic interpretability, RL, evals, and empirical AI safety research. Capstone project investigated the impact of constrained and encoded reasoning on chain-of-thought monitorability in LLMs.
Professional Experience
Research Intern
Microsoft Research · Redmond, WA
Collaborated with the SAINTES group in MSR to design AI agents supporting human oversight in engineering tasks. Piloted with an agent for differential testing automation.
Research Assistant
University of Notre Dame · Notre Dame, IN
Research under Dr. Jane Cleland-Huang on automating traceability, strengthening software accountability, and advancing requirements engineering practices.
Co-founder | Lead Researcher
SAFA.ai · Notre Dame, IN
Co-founded a startup translating university research into a automated traceability platforms for safety-critical systems. Secured a NASA STTR Phase I grant, accepted into the 2023 Techstars LA cohort, and completed nine industry pilot projects.
Software & Systems Engineer
Lockheed Martin · Mount Laurel, NJ
Contributed to user interface for displaying the status of elements on the Aegis System. Automated system-level testing with Python frameworks.
Publications & Writing
Revealing the Dark Matter: Connecting Tacit and System Knowledge in Human-AI Collaborations
2026 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), NIER Track
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
View PublicationReal-World Traceability Patterns for Generative AI Systems: With Insights from the Safa Dataset
2026 RAISE Workshop on Requirements Engineering for AI-powered SoftwarE at ICSE
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
QuestRL: A Q&A Framework for Designing Trustworthy Reinforcement Learning Systems
2025 IEEE 33rd International Requirements Engineering Conference
Valencia, Spain
View PublicationAssessing Compliance of Software System Designs to Laws, Regulations, and their Underlying Values
2025 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Designing Software (Designing)
Ottawa, ON, Canada
View PublicationSupporting Software Maintenance with Dynamically Generated Document Hierarchies
2024 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution
Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
View PublicationROOT: Requirements Organization and Optimization Tool
2024 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution
Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
View PublicationPrompts Matter: Insights and Strategies for Prompt Engineering in Automated Software Traceability
2023 IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops
Hanover, Germany
View PublicationSAFA: A Tool for Supporting Safety Analysis in Evolving Software Systems
2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Rochester, Michigan, USA
View PublicationMEWS: Real-time Social Media Manipulation Detection and Analysis
2021 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Competition and Demonstration Track
Virtual
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