I am a Staff Research Scientist in the Workflow and Ecosystem Services (WES) group at the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at Oak Ridge National Lab. In this position, I write programs and papers that explore the interconnections between data science and distributed computing. Some questions I've explored recently are:
Additionally, I am an Adjunct Professor in the Computing and Data Analytics Department at Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, IL, and am the original founder of the NightWare (previously myBivy) application for monitoring and treating nightmares in patients with PTSD.
I stay actively involved in the computing community. I am currently serving as the publicity chair for HPDC '25 and posters chair for eScience '25, and have previously served on program committees for SC, HPDC, IPDPS, ICPP, and SciPy. I also served on the curriculum development team for the Data4All bridge workshop for South-Chicago high school students.
(May 2025) I am thrilled to announce that I've been promoted to Staff Scientist at ORNL.
(May 2025) My team's paper "Secure API-Driven Research Automation to Accelerate Scientific Discovery" has been accepted for publication at PEARC 2025!
(Mar. 2025) I presented "The Secure Scientific Service Mesh (S3M) at Confab 2025.
(Jan. 2025) I am thrilled to announce that I've been appointed to the Adjunct Faculty of the MPCS and MS-ADS Master's programs at UChicago. I taught "Distributed Computing" in Spring 2025.